The Left's CPAC Lies

Robert Stacy McCain reports, at the American Spectator, "The Liberal Media Lie About CPAC." (via Memeorandum):

NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The liberal media covered the 40th Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) pretty much like they cover everything else — deceitfully, with a partisan bias that is transparent to every honest and intelligent person who actually pays attention. On any subject of potential political significance, there is a yawning chasm between (a) actual events and (b) the deliberately dishonest portrayal of those events by the hired liars whose biggest fraud is their ludicrous pretense to objectivity. If the New York Times could find a way to put a liberal spin on sports, they certainly would: “Louisville Gets Top NCAA Seed; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.”

Take, for example, the young comedian Steven Crowder. While serving as emcee on the Potomac Ballroom stage Saturday at CPAC, Crowder made a joke about actress (and, it is rumored, future Kentucky Senate candidate) Ashley Judd: “This just in, Ashley Judd just tweeted that purchasing Apple products is akin to rape — from her iPhone.” Which is pretty doggone funny if you know that, as Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller reported, Judd has claimed that the purchasers of the iPhone and other Apple products are “financing mass rape” by using minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Judd has a penchant for throwing around “rape” in her far-left political rants. She has compared coal-mining in Kentucky to rape and, also, to genocide in Rwanda. Judd’s long history of such outrageous comments has Republicans laughing mirthfully at the prospect of the actress challenging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky next year. But according to liberal journalists — whose cheerleading for Democrats is now so unapologetically blatant that it is taken for granted — the real outrage is that any Republican would criticize Judd’s lunatic utterances.

This is apparently why the Huffington Post decided to lie about Crowder’s joke. “Steven Crowder, a Fox News contributor who hosted part of Saturday’s activities at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, made a questionable remark about actress and possible Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd,” a post at the site described it, omitting both the factual context and the first part of the joke, quoting only Crowder’s follow-on comment: “What is this obsession with Ashley Judd and rape? It’s pretty unnerving.”

By tagging Crowder as a “Fox News contributor,” the writer of the HuffPo item signaled to liberal readers that the young comic is a hate-object. Evidently, the unnamed writer – the cowardly HuffPo liar didn’t put a byline on this cheap smear-job – didn’t trust his readers to have enough sense to decide whether or not Crowder’s joke was “questionable.” And, of course, there was the clever ju-jitsu reversal: The story is not about whether Ashley Judd’s rhetoric was too over-the-top for a Senate candidate — Judd’s own remarks aren’t even quoted — but rather whether a comedian’s joke about Judd is “questionable.”

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Recall that the leftist media goons were tracking Pamela Geller down like a pack of hyenas. These people are vile. And the work they do aids the enemies of the United States.

Establishment Hack Karl Rove Lashes Out at Sarah Palin

This story was trending yesterday at Memeorandum. Here's the clip:

He's an ass. An ultimate ass.

VIDEO: Pamela Geller at 'The Uninvited' Panel at #CPAC2013

This is nothing short of explosive. Mute the television, pull the iPod ear buds from your ears, tell your kids to take a walk, you're busy. Take 8:00 minutes and listen to Pamela. No one in American politics speaks more clearly and forcefully on the threat of stealth jihad and the cancer of political correctness stifling free speech in America.

At Atlas Shrugs, "VIDEO: PAMELA GELLER SPEAKS AT CPAC BREITBART EVENT."

And don't miss Robert Spencer's comments from the panel as well, at Jihad Watch, "Video: Robert Spencer at CPAC "Uninvited" Panel."

Oh My! Pamela Geller Smacks Down Orly Taitz at #CPAC2013

Now I would have liked to see this:

Via Atlas Shrugs, "CPAC-Snaps: The Passing Parade."

Depraved, Hypocritical Leftists Attack Conservatives for Standing Up for Conservative Principles

If libertarian "conservatives" think they're doing the GOP a favor by pushing the party toward accepting homosexual marriage as a matter of policy, they need to think again.

The leftist media went batsh*t at the news of Sen. Rob Portman coming out for homosexual marriage. This was a yawner to me, so I ignored it at the time. But now here comes the depraved homos at Think Progress with their creepy CPAC video alleging that conservatives are bigots for disagreeing with Sen. Portman's change of heart. See: "VIDEO: CPAC Attendees Blast GOP Senator Who Announced Support For Marriage Equality." (Watch the clip here.) And don't you love the headline at Towleroad?, "CPAC Attendees Blast Sen. Portman For Loving His Gay Son: VIDEO."

Actually, conservatives are not "blasting" him for "loving his son," but for abandoning conservative principles. But compare the CPAC attendees who stayed true to their values to the depraved progressive hypocrites who viciously attacked Portman for coming out for so-called "marriage equality." You'd think he'd be getting big cheers on the left for finally seeing the light, but you'd be wrong. Portman was vilified and demonized as only the left knows how. At Twitchy, "No gay-lo for Rob Portman: Many libs lash out at senator for 'evolving' on same-sex marriage."

no rob portman you're still a piece of shit, you're not suddenly cool for deciding gay marriage is ok when your son came out to you
— ＨＯＧ_ＣＲＡＮＫＥＲ６６６ (@aardvarkwizard) March 15, 2013

I hate people like this. Fuck everyone else’s child. What a douche. \\RT @politico: Rob Portman backs gay marriage after son comes out…
— Bonzo!® (@BonzoTMonkey) March 15, 2013

Rob Portman (R-OH) now in favor of gay marriage after his son comes out - before that was knowledge? Fuck 'em. Hypocritical asshole. #tcot
— Ian Hays (@iansane_) March 15, 2013

If you're an elected official who suddenly supports gay marriage because your child is gay, you are the worst kind of asshole. #Portman
— Aaron Firouz (@aaron_fury) March 15, 2013

@robportman you're still a piece of shit #sed
— dcc killaz (@dcckillaz) March 15, 2013

Indeed. 'How much icing do you think it would take to spell out “Fuck that guy”?' wonkette.com/506464/hero-se…
— Ann Somerville (@ann_somerville) March 16, 2013

Personally, I'm not impressed with Portman's change of heart, but Glenn Greenwald has a word or two for the progressives attacking him:

Portman's explanation [of a family member coming out as gay] is far from aberrational or confined to one ideological group: it's how political opinions are often shaped and how political progress is often achieved. And it's definitely the leading reason why so many people who opposed gay equality a short time ago now support it.

And for alll those libertarian "conservatives" who think they're on the right side of history, the Atlantic's Noah Berlatsky illustrates the kind of thanks you'll get from the left, "Rob Portman's Selfish Reversal on Marriage Is a Triumph for Gay Rights":

Portman ... [sees] his personal experience with gay issues in political terms. That's not because he's especially sensitive or thoughtful — there is no reason to think he is either. Rather, it's because gay rights advocates have been so successful in linking the personal and the political together that even the most unreflective career pol can't help but connect them....

[His] op-ed makes him sound like someone who, faced with a moral dilemma, has muddled through as best he can with the least thought and effort possible. The fact is, though, that most of us, most of the time, are more like Rob Portman than we are like, say, Mildred Loving, the woman whose Supreme Court case overturned the laws against interracial marriage. The marriage equality movement, like any moral movement, has been built by activists with great struggle and courage. But it's success is measured by the fact that it has framed the issues in question such that even the selfish and small-minded can, given a little push by their families, make the right choices. Portman is not an inspiring figure. But there is something inspiring in realizing that the movement has reached a point where even someone like him finds it easier to make the right choice than the wrong one.

Yay, Sen. Portman! Way to win friends and influence people on the left!

Look, voters are not fools. If they're picking candidates and parties on the basis of policies like homosexual marriage, they'll go for the truly left-wing party every time: the Democrats. The so-called conservatives at CPAC who're deluding themselves as hip and cool for supporting same-sex marriage are essentially being hammered by the progressive degenerates for whom bunghole bungee-jumping is a regular pastime.

The conference looked like a lot of fun, but considering my firm belief that legally nationalizing homosexual marriage will be a disaster for America's children, I'm glad I held off on attending #CPAC2013.

Pamela Geller Slams ACU's Suhail Khan as 'Worse Than al-Awlaki'

At Atlas Shrugs, "ENEMEDIA IN AN UPROAR OVER PAMELA GELLER'S STATEMENT ON SUHAIL KHAN'S STEALTH JIHAD."

Checking Twitter you can see how the depraved progs, including Evan McMorris-Santoro, were tracking down Pamela like a pack of hyenas:

Pamela Gellar at Breitbart's "the Uninvited" panel twitter.com/EvanMcSan/stat…
— E McMorris-Santoro (@EvanMcSan) March 16, 2013

And Pamela writes:

I knew when I said that Suhail Khan was worse than Anwar Awlaki that the enemedia would jump all over it as a "gotcha" quote, and Salon (the hopeless Alex Seitz-Wald again) and BuzzFeed jumped right on it. Of course Khan's stealth jihad is more dangerous. Awlaki is dead. Suhail is working his treachery every day, under the guise of a "conservative" mask. Anwar al-Awlaki was a moderate Muslim before he wasn't. He was praised in the New York Times. Abdurrahman Alamoudi, a friend of Norquist and Khan, was also a moderate before he wasn't. Alamoudi was Suhail's mentor before he went to prison for terror-related crimes. Alamoudi was al-Qaeda's largest secret financial courier.

Suhail Khan is tightly linked to jihadists who want to take down this country.

Here is the background: Suhail Khan Exposed.

The damage that covert jihadists do is incalculable. They have enabled Muslim Brotherhood access to the highest levels of government. They have deeply compromised our resistance to jihad. And they lull people into complacency about the jihad threat.

The left tracks down Pamela Geller because she threatens their program of Dhimmitude and treason.

Here's McMorris-Santoro's smear, "Pamela Gellar: CPAC's Muslim Board Member Is 'Worse Than Al-Awlaki'." (At Memeorandum.)

Sarah Palin Lights a Fire Under #CPAC2013!

Earlier on Twitter, Jimmie Bise argued that "Sarah Palin has upped her game." And having now watched the speech, all I can say is "no doubt."

This is freakin' amazing. Palin was on fire and brought the house down, at the clip: "CPAC 2013 - Former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK)."

Palin joked about her husband Todd buying her a gun rack for Christmas: "He's got the rifle, I've got the rack" (and she then pulled out a Big Gulp from the below the podium).

At Twitchy, "Awesome: Sarah Palin sips Big Gulp during CPAC speech; ‘Bloomberg’s not around’ [pics and video]."

And at the Hill, "Sarah Palin fires up conservative grassroots in speech at CPAC" (via Memeorandum).

Smokin' Hot Panel of Conservative Women at #CPAC2013

I sat down and listened to this entire video a little over an hour ago. What a wonderful group of conservatives, "The Right View and the Real Issues."

* Kate Kieffer, Columnist & Commentator

* Kate Obenshain, Author & Conservative Blogger Divider-in-Chief: The Fraud of Hope and Change

* Katie Pavlich, News Editor, Townhall Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and the Shameless Cover-Up

Crystal Wright, Editor & Publisher, conservativeblackchick.com

Moderator: Rachel Campos-Duffy,( Wife of Rep. Sean Duffy) National Spokesperson, The LIBRE Initiative

The conference schedule is here.

And lots more coverage at Memeorandum. I would have loved to see the panel with Pat Caddell ripping the GOP consultant establishment. That guy is incredibly plain-spoken. He gets to the heart of the issues like few others. Bob Belvedere has that, "Pat Caddell Rips the GOP a New One."

Here's What You're Missing at #CPAC2013

A very good Fox News segment, "'The Five' Takes on Day 1 of CPAC and Say Which GOP'ers Have Them Most Excited."

Here's #CPAC2013 on Twitter.

Plus, from Robert Stacy McCain, who's now Editor in Chief at Viral Read, "#CPAC2013: Andrew Breitbart Praised as ‘Warrior’."

Now as if you needed a reason not to attend this year, from Mark Krikorian on the immigration panel yesterday:

No one speaking at #cpac2013 can bring themselves to say "illegal"

— Mark Krikorian (@MarkSKrikorian) March 14, 2013

Background here.

Legal Insurrection has some blogging, "Hundreds of CPAC Attendees #StandWithRand." As does Lonely Conservative, "Video: Allen West Addresses CPAC."

I'll have more blogging from the Left Coast throughout the day...

The 'Gay Conservative' Oxymoron

A lot of folks on the right were perplexed with this yesterday, at Twitchy, for example, "Headdesk: Accuracy in Media writer claims, ‘There’s no such thing as a gay conservative’," and Vodka Pundit, "Gay Haters Gotta Hate."

But I've read the allegedly "hateful" piece, from Cliff Kincaid, and folks are misrepresenting what he writes (Bradley Manning is not argued to be conservative, for example, but as a member of "the homosexual movement"). See, "CPAC and the Conservatives":

The term “gay conservative” is being used by some news outlets in connection with the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and whether certain homosexual groups should be invited to appear. There is no such thing as a “gay conservative,” unless the term “conservative” has lost all meaning. But there is a homosexual movement that has its roots in Marxism and is characterized by anti-Americanism and hatred of Christian values.

Two of this movement’s members, Bradley Manning and Floyd Corkins, have recently been in the news. Manning betrayed his country in the WikiLeaks scandal, while Corkins has pleaded guilty to trying to kill conservative officials of the Christian Family Research Council in Washington, D.C.

Rather than debate whether “gay conservatives” exist or ought to have prominent speaking roles, CPAC should be sponsoring a panel on the dangers of the homosexual movement and why some of its members seem prone to violence, terror, and treason.

Continure reading.

It's a great piece, and dead-on 100 percent accurate.

And if all the folks outraged are defending GOProud, remember the group's chairman Chris Barron trashed top conservative Cleta Mitchell with what can only be described as a depraved left-wing attack. AoSHQ wrote about this recently, noting how he changed his mind on the controversy after he saw Barron's depravity. I can't find that link, although Erick Erickson sounded the alarm on this a couple of years ago.

The libertarian conservatives defending GOProud --- and attacking Kincaid --- are wrong. But the conservative movement's all messed up these days. And I don't care much about what happens at CPAC this year, in any case.

Pamela has more, "The Left on the Right."

Angry White Dude on #StandWithSpencer

I love it:

Watch closely to see who and what groups still attend CPAC under the censorship jihad of Grover Norquist! #standwithspencer #cpac #tcot

— angrywhitedude (@angrywhitedude) March 9, 2013

And ICYMI: "#StandWithSpencer — John Hawkins Attacks Counter-Jihad Patriot Robert Spencer."

A New Generation Takes Up the Torch

Here's the Tea Party Patriots' video, "A Movement On Fire at CPAC 2013."

Via Melissa Clouthier on Twitter:

I love that message, but young tea partiers must fight infiltration from the Islamists as well. And they must resist the temptation to sell out to the establishment.

PREVIOUSLY: "#StandWithSpencer — John Hawkins Attacks Counter-Jihad Patriot Robert Spencer."

#StandWithSpencer — John Hawkins Attacks Counter-Jihad Patriot Robert Spencer

I saw Pamela's post last night, "WHEN BLOGGERS ATTACK: JOHN HAWKINS TAKES A DIVE FOR GROVER NORQUIST."

It wasn't a surprise. I saw the fight breaking out on Twitter the other day. Robert Spencer won CPAC's People's Choice Award this year, and apparently a condition for accepting the award was that, at the conference, Robert was prohibited from publicly criticizing Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan. Robert and John Hawkins dispute what was said in their discussion on accepting the award. Pamela has statements from both Robert and John at her post. It's heated. John ends his comments as follows:

I’m the one who talked to Robert Spencer and I’m the one who’s saying that I think demanding the right to throw a tantrum as a condition of accepting an award is unacceptable. All I can say beyond that is that I hope lying to get his 5 minutes of PR was worth burning people who’ve been supportive of him, because he is dead to me.

Those are fighting words. Strong words. iOWNTHEWORLD has more about them, "Stop Digging."

I'm friends with all the particpants to this conflict. And in particular, I am very close personal friends with Pamela Geller. I can't say I'm happy to take sides, because I think John Hawkins has been a great leader of the conservative blogosphere. And while I don't have enough information to determine whose version of the awards acceptance dispute is correct, I'll simply say that that's the minor detail here. The major detail is that John's on the wrong side altogether. CPAC is completely corrupted as a leadership organization. I can't understand how anyone would want to be affiliated with the group in an official capacity, because to do so would be to call into question one's conservative bona fides. That's the situation in which John Hawkins now finds himself. And believe me, I know, the attraction of CPAC is enormous. All the bright lights and big names. All the spectacle and pageantry of the big conference center. All the parties and beautiful women. And of course, all the opportunities for posing, brown nosing and money grubbing. That's enough to make you sick right there. But if that was all it's about I could still handle it. Everyone has their immediate material interests. But that's not what it's all about. It's about a battle over existential values. This is a battle over fundamental freedoms of which there can be no compromise. And this is a battle for the soul of CPAC that's been been raging for quite sometime now. It was raging when I was in attendance in 2011. Some folks might recall David Horowitz's keynote address sounding the tocsin against the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration of the conservative movement. It's all well-documented. There's no conspiracy here. Either people decide to face facts or not. Listen beginning at 5:00 minutes, or at just before 7:00 when David calls out Suhail Khan by name, denouncing him as a traitor of the United States:

There's more background, with all the evidence, from Frank Gaffney, at FrontPage Magazine, "A Jihadist in the Heart of the Conservative Movement."

And see Pamela at FrontPage Magazine, "CPAC Shills for Islamic Terrorists."

Plus, Robert has this, "CPAC blog award update: John Hawkins of Right Wing News does damage control for Norquist and CPAC, throws Spencer under the bus."

Again, it's not fun to write this, because I've long respected John Hawkins. But people need to speak up. Sorry, but John, take it from me, you're not coming up roses on this. Not just because of the dispute over the award, as bad as that is, but because you're on the wrong side if it's true that you're shilling for Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan. It's time to rethink your goals as a conservative activist. You may still generate lots of money and traffic, but you'll have lost your soul.

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#CPACisDead

At Pamela's.

And at Jihad Watch, "Robert Spencer wins CPAC award, as long as he doesn't criticize Grover Norquist."

Conservatives #StandWithPamelaGeller

Pamela is very grateful for the support, "#StandWithPamelaGeller":

Huge thanks to Michelle Malkin, who took to twitter and really stepped up to support me in the wake of the Breitbart article: "CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller". Joining Malkin are Mark Levin, The Right Scoop, Maggie's Notebook, Robert Spencer, Instapundit, Donald Douglas, Theo Spark, Patrick over at T&R, Lucianne, IOTW, Tim at Freedom Post, Marooned in Marin, and many others.

Every year I organize a critical event covering issues CPAC won't touch, like jihad and sharia. Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan wield enormous influence and have kept Robert Spencer and me and so many of our colleagues off the CPAC schedule for years...

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#StandWithPamelaGeller

At Twitchy, "Michelle Malkin, others #StandWithPamelaGeller after CPAC snub."

Looks like open-borders, soft on jihadi Grover Norquist strikes again. MT @atlasshrugs CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller shar.es/jZ9Ci
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) March 2, 2013

And see the Right Scoop, "The real reason why Pam Geller was not invited to CPAC."

EXTRA: Thanks to iOWNTHEWORLD for the earlier linkage, "CPAC Moving Leftward, Sides With Islamic Tyranny, Ousts AFDI."

PC-PAC — Pamela Geller Banned From CPAC!

I remember in 2011, I was hanging out with Tania Gail and all of sudden she jumps up and says, "Oh my gosh, we've got to get over to Pamela Geller's screening of "The Ground Zero Mosque: The Second Wave of the 9/11 Attacks." We then ran over to the other side of the conference center to find a jam-packed hall just sitting down to the movie screening. It was awesome. And then the next day, Pamela held a standing room event for the families of 9/11: "THE GROUND ZERO MOSQUE EVENT AT CPAC." These events were the freakin' pinnacle of the conference. Sheesh. What is wrong with this world? Now Pamela's banned? Unbe-freakin'-lievable.

See, "'CPAC TURNS AWAY PAMELA GELLER'."

I won't be at CPAC this year. Every year AFDI organizes a must-see event addressing issues the Grover Norquist/Suhail Khan cabal refuse to address (jihad, sharia, the war on freedom in the West).

This year, I applied to speak and was ignored. I tried to get a room for an AFDI event, "The War on Free Speech" and was ignored. So, for the first time in five years, I won't be at CPAC. Last year Suhail Khan bragged out loud that he (and his other operatives) had successfully kept Robert Spencer and me from being invited to speak. He went so far as to warn people not to attend our events or read our books.

In several articles I took on Grover Norquist and his powerful influence over CPAC, most notably here and here. As soon as I published my Newsmax column concerning his perfidious influence at CPAC, my Newsmax column was taken down and my name and picture were removed from the Newsmax page..... it was two slots away from Grover's. My weekly column never appeared at Newsmax again. It was axed.

Now this. I might add, every AFDI event at CPAC was standing room only. We turned people away every year.

Check out this Breitbart article - and read the comments.

"CPAC Turns Away Pamela Geller" Breitbart, March 2, 2013.

PHOTO: "CREATIVE ZIONIST COALITION AWARD NIGHT CELEBRATING 'MODERN DAY HEROES'."

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