Tag Archives: CPAC

“What does America stand for? What is America’s foreign policy and we have a commander in chief who is clearly senile, addled, not up to the job. We have sent so many confusing messages. “But the idea that we have been kicking people out of the Marine Corps for not taking a vaccine at the – and we’re having General …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) will be on a panel Sunday titled “The Moron in Chief.” In what can only be a conversation about President Joe Biden’s many stumbles this past year, Boebert is all but guaranteed to throw punches while she trashes Biden along with radio host Buck Sexton, former football player Jack Brewer and Institute of World …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, a 2020 presidential primary candidate who has been critical of President Joe Biden and liberal lawmakers, will be the headliner at the main CPAC dinner event this week, officials told Secrets Monday. Gabbard, the former Hawaii congresswoman, will speak at the annual Ronald Reagan Dinner held by the American …

First, a reminder from earlier this week: Matt Schlapp, the president of the influential Conservative Political Action Conference, called for “Sesame Street” producer PBS to be defunded over the introduction of an Asian-American character to the kids’ show. In a tweet Tuesday, Schlapp criticized the show after it announced that Ji-Young, its first ever Asian-American muppet, would be joining the …

Mediaite reports: Sesame Street is introducing a new Asian-American muppet character, and in response Matt Schlapp said PBS should be defunded. The long-running educational children’s series has made diversity and inclusion one of its themes over the years. This week, Ji-Young was added to the repertoire of muppet characters on Sesame Street. There’s been a lot of discourse about Sesame …

The Dispatch reports: The American Conservative Union, the political organization helmed since 2015 by lobbyist Matt Schlapp, is best known for its Conservative Political Action Conference and its annual scorecard of the voting records of politicians in D.C. and across the country. Sources tell The Dispatch that federal investigators are currently looking into possible criminal campaign-finance misdeeds at ACU during …

The Budapest Business Journal reports: Budapest will host the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering of conservative activists and elected officials from the United States and beyond, in 2022, the Budapest-based Center for Fundamental Rights said, according to a report by state news wire MTI. CPAC, which is organized by the American Conservative Union (ACU), touts itself as the …

Breitbart whines: Google-owned YouTube took down a video featuring Donald Trump from the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), locking the organization’s account for one week and preventing them from posting more videos from the conference. “It is clear that YouTube censored CPAC because we stood with former President Donald Trump on his lawsuit against Big Tech,” said ACU Chairman Matt …

The La Crosse Tribune reports: The Diocese of La Crosse announced Friday that it was removing a controversial La Crosse priest from his role as pastor. Father James Altman will no longer serve as pastor of St. James the Less, a Catholic church on La Crosse’s north side, after he delivered a slew of political messaging and misinformation. In May, …

The Hill reports: South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem (R) knocked her fellow GOP governors during a speech on Sunday at a conservative conference, criticizing them for COVID-19 mandates imposed amid the pandemic. “We’ve got Republican governors across this country pretending they didn’t shut down their states; that they didn’t close their regions; that they didn’t mandate masks. Now I’m not …

Fox New reports: Former President Donald Trump easily won the 2024 GOP presidential nomination poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) gathering this weekend in Texas. Trump, who’s repeatedly flirted with making another presidential run in 2024 to try and return to the White House, captured 70% of ballots cast in the anonymous straw poll, according to results announced …

USA Today reports: Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top Biden administration adviser, said Sunday that it was “horrifying” to see people at the Conservative Political Action Conference cheering because the government has not being able to get more of the country vaccinated. “It’s horrifying. I mean, they are cheering about someone saying that it’s a good thing for people not to …

“When you look at what the Black community has been through, go all the way back to slavery. “It was the family, the strong family units and the faith in God that got people through that, that got people through Jim Crow, through severe segregation, through all the difficulties. “But what really had a negative impact was when the government …

Mediaite reports: White nationalist Nick Fuentes was kicked out of CPAC in Dallas on Saturday. The 22-year-old has not been welcomed at past CPAC events due to his fringe, far-right beliefs. Fuentes entered the conference with a group of supporters chanting “Groyper,” a term based on a meme that now represents a loose group of white nationalists who have worked …

Forbes reports: Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) on Friday doubled down on the rhetoric that led a fellow House member to sue him for the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, urging attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference to “fight for America” like soldiers during the American Revolution. In a speech to the conservative gathering, Brooks, who is running for …

Salon reports: Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers, was spotted by a Salon reporter Friday evening strolling the halls of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas. When asked why he was in attendance at the conservative conference, Rhodes quickly became enraged and yelled, “f**k off.” A female associate, identified as …

Via press release from the American Conservative Union: On behalf of more than 100 million Americans, The American Conservative Union (ACU) is taking a stand against the increasingly divisive and partisan activism by public corporations and organizations that are caving to “woke” pressure. We will not stand by as half the country gets silenced, canceled, or shamed for resisting this …

So this just happened on Fox News: “Chris, I am not gonna take this from you,” Schlapp shouted back. “You are not gonna call me a liar! You are not gonna call me a conspiracy theorist. You are not gonna call Tucker Carlson a conspiracy theorist!” “He is and you are,” Hahn shot back. Schlapp exclaimed, “I’m not going to …

Politico Playbook reports: Over the weekend we told you that one of the stars of CPAC — that enormous statue of Trump — was made in Mexico. Well, it turns out there’s more to the story. Artist Tommy Zegan had told Playbook he hand-crafted the 200-pound, chrome-painted fiberglass statue with the help of three men in Rosarito, Mexico, where he …

Mediaite reports: Mediaite has learned that this week, CPAC brass, fuming over the media’s coverage of the stage, threatened to out the stage company to the media. Sources said Design Foundry was told by ACU general counsel David Safavian and other ACU brass on a Monday afternoon call that if it didn’t release a statement by 10 a.m. Tuesday copping …