Showing posts with label CPAC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CPAC. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Slick, Paranoid Tea Party Video Aims for Violent Insurrection | Alternet

Slick, Paranoid Tea Party Video Aims for Violent Insurrection | Alternet
"The video, a thinly veiled advertisement for violent insurrection from the “Tea Party Patriots" group, boasts professional acting and Hollywood production values. But underneath its bright, professional sheen lurk dark overtones of End Times paranoia that will resonate with millions of American fundamentalists."

Friday, March 15, 2013

CPAC Panel Decrying Conservative Racism Disrupted by Conservative Racists

CPAC Panel Decrying Conservative Racism Disrupted by Conservative Racists
"A CPAC session sponsored by Tea Party Patriots and billed as a primer on teaching activists how to court black voters devolved into a shouting match as some attendees demanded justice for white voters and others shouted down a black woman who reacted in horror."

CPAC Participant Defends Slavery At Minority Outreach Panel: It Gave ‘Food And Shelter’ To Blacks

CPAC Participant Defends Slavery At Minority Outreach Panel: It Gave ‘Food And Shelter’ To Blacks: "The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl Smith of Frederick Douglass Republicans, answered by referencing a letter by Frederick Douglass forgiving his former master, the audience member said “For what? For feeding him and housing him?” Several people in the audience cheered and applauded Terry’s outburst.
After the exchange, Terry muttered under his breath, “why can’t we just have segregation"?"

VIDEO: CPAC Attendees Blast GOP Senator Who Announced Support For Marriage Equality

VIDEO: CPAC Attendees Blast GOP Senator Who Announced Support For Marriage Equality: WASHINGTON, DC — Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) decision to support marriage equality was not warmly received at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) Friday. ThinkProgress spoke with 10 attendees about the Ohio Senator’s announcement this week that he was reversing course and backing marriage equality after his own son came out of the closet. Every [...]/p