Annual Insanity, Rabble Rousing, Hilarity: CPAC Conference 2014

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packed room for conference attendance on minority outreach:




https://twitter.com/JohnJHudak/statu...785280/photo/1

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CPAC Panelist: Abortion ‘Worse Than the Slave Trade or Jim Crow’

http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29

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D'Souza: Obama Is Coming For Your Couches, Cars

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten...r-couches-cars

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Ralph Reed Compares Barack Obama to George Wallace

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014...e-wallace-cpac

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God makes an appearance, of course.

Mike Huckabee at CPAC: America must “repent” before it receives god’s “fiery judgment”

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/07/mike...ment%E2%80%9D/

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Oliver North: GOP Must Oppose Marriage Equality Like It Fought Slavery -

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten...fought-slavery

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Huckabee: Deep In Their Hearts, Most Americans Know God Created This Nation -

See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/conten....JbpY6Pbu.dpuf

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Paul Ryan’s CPAC Speech Was Based on a Lie


Paul Ryan’s CPAC speech yesterday was almost comically offensive even before it became clear that it was based on a lie.

By now, you’ve probably heard about the speech itself, in which Ryan denounced the left for offering people “a full stomach—and an empty soul.” Discussing the moral squalor of free school lunch programs, Ryan retold a story he heard from Eloise Anderson, a former single mother on assistance who became a hero to the right by calling for the abolishment of welfare (she’s now a member of Scott Walker’s cabinet). It was about a boy Anderson had ostensibly met who didn’t want a free government lunch. “He wanted his own lunch—one in a brown-paper bag just like the other kids’,” said Ryan. “He wanted one, he said, because he knew a kid with a brown-paper bag had someone who cared for him.”

Ryan’s words would have been nasty even if the underlying story were true. Do parents whose kids get subsidized school lunches not care for them? Does Ryan really think their souls are empty? Last night, however, The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler reported that the anecdote Ryan used was actually ripped out of context from the bestselling book An Invisible Thread: The True Story of an 11-Year-Old Panhandler, a Busy Sales Executive, and an Unlikely Meeting with Destiny. The book is about the friendship between author Laura Schroff and Maurice Mazyck, whom Schroff met when he was begging on the street. At one point, she made him school lunches every day and left them with her doorman to pick up on the way to school. In a heartbreaking passage, Mazyck asked her to put them in a brown paper bag like the ones all the other kids had.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/178735...eech-based-lie

A Repug mucky muck LIE?

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NRA’s LaPierre: America Is Falling Apart, So You Should Get A Gun

http://www.nationalmemo.com/nras-lap...apart-get-gun/

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The Ukranian candidate: Putin wins CPAC poll


In a stunning upset, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin won the CPAC straw poll by a wide margin, beating Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum and all other prospective candidates by 50 points.

In a related development, a group of CPAC researchers, including Orly Taitz, Jerome Corsi and Tucker Carlson (the "Reverse Birthers") published the following birth certificate:

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin
Born: October 6, 1952, 2:00 am
Hospital: Coney Island Hospital, Brooklyn, NY
Length: 17"; Weight: 7.5 lbs.
Distinguishing characteristics: Will not wear a shirt.
Parents: Vladimir Spiridonovich Putin and Maria Ivanovna Putina
Address: 122 Oceana Drive West, Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, New York.(1)

Prior to the vote, a parade of speakers praised Putin:

Rudy Giuliani said of Putin: “he’s what you call a leader”House Republican Mike Rogers rhapsodized: "Putin is running circles around the United States. He is playing chess while we're playing marbles."

Bryan Fisher of the American Family Association called the Russian leader a "Lion of Christianity" in large part because of his anti-gay policies.

In her closing speech, Sarah Palin repeated her boffo line, "people are looking at Putin as one who wrestles bears and drills for oil. They look at our president as one who wears mom jeans and equivocates and bloviates." (2)

By the time of the vote, the result was a foregone conclusion.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/0...28Daily+Kos%29

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Chris Christie Admits GOP is Fighting for the Koch Brothers at CPAC

In a rare moment of honesty, Chris Christie spoke the truth about what the Republican Party stands for at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) today. Christie told the audience Republicans need to have a positive message as he proclaimed:

We have to start talking about what we’re for and not continuing to rail against what we’re against is because of one simple reason, our ideas are better than their ideas.

And according to Chris Christie, what are Republicans for? They are for the Koch brothers. Christie blasted Democrats and defended the Koch brothers by stating:

What they’re for in Washington, D.C. is to have the leader of the Senate Democrats stand up and rail against two American entrepreneurs (the Koch brothers) who have built a business, created jobs and created wealth…Harry Reid should get back to work and stop picking on great Americans.

Chris Christie has a message for Democrats. Stop picking on the Koch Brothers. Yes, the heroic Governor of New Jersey has come to the rescue of the most vulnerable Americans, Charles and David Koch.

http://www.politicususa.com/2014/03/...iticus+USA+%29

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CPAC (black) speaker: Black liberals made Detroit like Hiroshima after it was nuked


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/0...e+Raw+Story%29

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NRA’s LaPierre goes nuts again: “No greater freedom than … all the rifles, shotguns and handguns we want!”


http://www.salon.com/2014/03/06/nras...want%E2%80%9D/

yep, 2nd Amendment bull !

it's all about the $$$, as is EVERYTHING in venal USA.

[DarrinS]

packed room for conference attendance on minority outreach:




https://twitter.com/JohnJHudak/statu...785280/photo/1

Same room -- I'm guessing this was AFTER attendees arrived




https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/s...558912/photo/1

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lol boutons

[DarrinS]

lol @ this little exchange

Annette Ballester ‏@abytw · 2h
@johnhawkinsrwn @JohnJHudak @SuzyKhimm Thank you. I'm curious, though: approx what % of audience would you guess appeared to be minorities?

John Hawkins ‏@johnhawkinsrwn · 2h
@abytw @JohnJHudak @SuzyKhimm 2.5% - 5%? About the same as Netroots Nation the last time I was there.

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lol boutons

Yet, for some time, the message didn't just fall on deaf ears—there were few sets of ears in the room. Suddenly, that changed. In fact, as I tweeted the above photo, I had a response from someone who snapped a picture of a much fuller room. That picture was accurate and so was mine. That picture showed a nearly full ballroom, while my picture showed an empty one. So what was the difference?

The difference was that the diversity panel ran over its time. People began filling in—in droves. Why the change of heart? The diversity panel ran late and into the time slot for NRA executive Wayne LaPierre to address CPAC in the same room. LaPierre went on to give a rousing speech that generated some of the loudest enthusiasm of the day from the crowd. Yet, therein lies the problem. Speaking to gun rights supporters is not the path to Republican success at the national level. Most ardent supporters of the 2nd Amendment find Democrats to be a threat and reliably vote Republican. Wayne LaPierre doesn’t change minds. He doesn’t necessarily grow the party, as people have very polarized views about him and the topic for which he very successfully and eloquently advocates.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgo...ch-panel-hudak

TB

slapped SILLY by the The Great Boutons, yet again!

the room was filled up for the next session, aka, NRA kill all the n!gg@s speech.

[TeyshaBlue]

So they werent listening?
Fascinating.

lol "great".

[TeyshaBlue]

Anytime youre ready to look at how many times you've been slapped by virtually everyone here, and occassionally by yourself, let me know.

I'm a giver.

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Rick Santorum to CPAC: cut the “class-envy leftist language” like “middle class”

http://www.salon.com/2014/03/07/rick_santorum_to_cpac_cut_the_class_envy_leftist_l anguage_like_middle_class/

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CPAC Celebrates Free-Market Entrepreneurship With CEO Whose Company Was Built On Federally Backed Loans


http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014...es-gary-heavin

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Radio host Michael Medved tells CPAC no state tried to ban gay marriage: ‘That is a liberal lie’


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/03/07/radio-host-michael-medved-tells-cpac-no-state-tried-to-ban-gay-marriage-that-is-a-liberal-lie/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29

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Why CPAC Isn’t As Grassroots As You Think

This week hundreds of college Republicans and men sporting Founding Father costumes are in National Harbor, Md., across the Potomac from Washington, D.C., for the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual meeting of the American Conservative Union. Anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist calls it “Woodstock for conservatives.”

But while the American Conservative Union, CPAC’s parent, refers to itself as the “nation’s oldest and largest grassroots conservative organization,” an examination of the group’s finances shows the organization receives support from some of America’s biggest and least popular industries: guns, big oil, and cigarettes.

Rarely seen and previously unreported tax filings for the ACU and ACU Foundation, the group responsible for staging CPAC, reveal that in the 2010 tax year, the National Rifle Association provided $225,000 of the ACU Foundation’s overall revenue. In 2010 the ACU Foundation reported $288,670 in grant revenue and $1,063,103 in “program service revenue.” The NRA’s executive vice president and CEO, Wayne LaPierre, has been a regular featured speaker at past CPAC events and he again spoke at the gathering on Thursday. The 2013 CPAC included an event led “NRA University” at which CPAC attendees could “learn more about NRA, Second Amendment, gun control debate.” It even offered participants “a FREE one-year NRA membership,” according to the conference schedule. The NRA is a “presenting sponsor” at the 2014 conference—a sponsorship level requiring a $110,000 contribution.

In 2010 the billionaire Koch brothers’ companies contributed a total of $50,000 to the ACU and the ACU Foundation. In the same year, cigarette giant Altria contributed $25,000 to the ACU, and the conservative Anschutz Foundation contributed $25,000 to the ACU Foundation.

Koch Industries, a major player in U.S. oil and gas industry, sponsored the “VIP Ronald Reagan Dinner Reception” at CPAC’s 2013 meeting.

Perhaps more importantly, the ACU promotes the tobacco industry when new regulatory measures are proposed. The ACU publicly defended the interests of the tobacco industry when the FDA proposed imposing restrictions on menthol cigarettes. Responding to a July 2013 invitation for public input from the FDA, the ACU wrote to express its “strong opposition to the establishment of the Food and Drug Administration of a tobacco product standard for menthol in cigarettes.” The ACU also used its influence to promote legislation benefiting the oil and gas industries. In addition to contributions from the Anschutz Foundation, funded by oil tycoon Philip Anschutz and the Koch brothers, Chevron contributed $20,000 to the ACU Foundation in 2010. The oil and drilling industry found no shortage of support from the ACU. In December 2011 the ACU wrote to Rep. Jim Jordan, then-chairman of the Republican Study Committee, urging Jordan and all members of the House to support the “Jobs Through Growth Act,” which would “reverse the absurd finding of EPA that carbon dioxide is a ‘pollutant.’ ” “The bill would also expedite the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline,” said the ACU letter. The bill gained 59 co-sponsors but died in committee.

Koch Industries, a major player in the U.S. oil and gas industry, sponsored the “VIP Ronald Reagan Dinner Reception” at CPAC’s 2013 meeting. (Former Koch Industries Executive Director of Federal Affairs Matt Schlapp appears as a board member on ACU tax filings starting in 2009.) CPAC’s 2014 annual conference website lists Koch and the NRA as sponsors but doesn’t disclose the precise amount of either’s support.

When contacted for comment about its corporate donors and the appearance of advocacy for the oil, cigarette, and gun industries, ACU National Communications Director Laura Keehner Rigas said, “ACU does not discuss the details of contributions beyond what is publicly available through our Form 990 and our website. Please reference our website for a sampling of CPAC sponsors, co-sponsors, and exhibitors.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...servative.html

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Jindal Compares Obama Administration To Segregationist

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/jindal-obama-segregationist-wallace


DOJ Trolls Jindal With Civil Rights Book Gift After Segregation Remark

The Justice Department is responding to Bobby Jindal's comparison of U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to a segregationist by sending him a book about the civil rights movement.

The book, written by Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), a civil rights icon, is called "Walking With the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement." The DOJ bookmarked a page in which Lewis writes about Vivian Malone Jones, the first black graduate of the University of Alabama, who was blocked at the door by segregationist Gov. George Wallace when seeking to enroll.
Jones, it turns out, is Holder's sister-in-law.

"This should help the Governor brush up on his history for the next time he invokes the civil rights movement.” Justice spokesman Kevin Lewis told TPM.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...+%28TPMNews%29


History? Repugs don't need no steenkin' history! They just make history to fit their fantasy world.

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Same room -- I'm guessing this was AFTER attendees arrived




https://twitter.com/johnhawkinsrwn/s...558912/photo/1

I count ~14 rows in your pic. Do you need me to explain further your failure in critical thinking? It involves counting and comparing.