Joseph Farah, who sparred over the “birther” conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column — a promo for his own convention — attacking CPAC organizers for not holding a birther panel. It’s interesting in the same way that the More…
Pulled from my iPhone camera at CPAC — thus, the occasionally quiet audio — is a sample of the reception Max Blumenthal got while trying to interview ACORN stinger Hannah Giles.
YouTube user Melioped — easily spotted at CPAC, as she a donned revolutionary war-era dress for much of Saturday — filmed RNC Chairman Michael Steele’s visit to the Campaign for Liberty booth when Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was making the rounds. The result: this still shot, which speaks to More…
I ducked in and out of XPAC, the lounge-for-kids (i.e., kids without photo IDs to get them into Woodley Park bars) in the basement of CPAC. Like a lot of other reporters, I chatted briefly with Stephen Baldwin. Lydia DePillas spent two days there, witnessing an award ceremony for More…
Glenn Beck closed the 37th annual CPAC with a passionate, personal, ideological-but-not-partisan speech about his career and America’s values. For 45 minutes he held the crowd in the palm of his hand, veering between tales of his small-town upbringing and denunciations of the progressive movement.
“Progressivism is a cancer in More…
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) scored a victory in the annual CPAC straw poll, besting nine other Republicans in a vote taken by around 2,395 attendees — around 25 percent of the people at this conservative conference. Paul won 31 percent of the vote; Mitt Romney came in second with More…
Max Blumenthal’s appearance at CPAC ended, apparently, with a confrontation between him and Andrew Breitbart. The subject of the argument: the Salon.com story that I’ve written about here in which Blumenthal claimed, incorrectly, that O’Keefe had helped organize a “racist conference” in 2006 — in reality, O’Keefe was one More…
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich — who bounded onto the CPAC stage to the strains of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger” — predicted that the GOP will seize control of the House and Senate in the midterm elections. That was the headline-grabbing bit of his bombastic, 30-minute speech, More…
On the way in to Newt Gingrich’s speech I spotted a crowd of the size that usually clouds around a 2012 presidential hopeful. It was Max Blumenthal, who was trying to conduct a Q&A with Hannah Giles and had drawn in dozens of onlooker with video cameras and tape recorders. More…
Ann Coulter’s speeches at CPAC are simultaneously the least surprising and the most headline-ready parts of the conference. Every year, the lines to get into the ballroom start more than an hour before the speech; every year she dishes out six or seven one-liners that horrify liberals. Ted Kennedy was More…
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