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03/10/14 2:27 PM

#219978 RE: F6 #219970

CPAC Bonus Saturday -- The Princess In Excelsis

By Charles P. Pierce on March 8, 2014

T.J. Kirkpatrick/Getty Images

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- By now, and by god, it should have settled permanently in the consciousness of the nation what a huge and untoward gamble with the country John McCain and his campaign took in 2008 when they elevated Sarah Palin from her rightful place on the tundra to the political celebrity she currently enjoys. McCain should pay a heavy price for unleashing this ignorant, two-wheeled bilewagon on the country's politics. If you think she's a legitimate political leader, you're an idiot and a sucker and I feel sorry for you.

Yesterday she gave a wildly received speech to ring down the curtain at CPAC. The applause, as far as I know, may still be going on. It was as singularly embarrassing a public address as any allegedly sentient primate ever has delivered. It was a disgrace to politics, to rhetoric, to the English language, and to seventh-grade slam books everywhere.

This ambulatiory bag of rank resentment pulled out all the tricks. The cheap shots; "Aw, John, why the long face?" to the Secretary of State. The sneering, wheedling playground taunting -- "You can't make a phone call without Michelle Obama knowing, 'This is the third time this week you dialed Pizza Hut Delivery'" -- and a full panoply of funny voices that are the trademark of dipshit comics in every two-drink minimum club in America. We got "hope and channng-ey," and how "some members" of the GOP establishment are saying to us, "Hush, America. Go to sleep, little lambs." And, in what is being celebrated as the piece de resistance, she turned Green Eggs And Ham into an extended taunt.

"I do not like this spyin' man, I do not like ‘Oh, yes we can,' I do not like this kind of hope, and we won't take it nope, nope, nope."

(Dr. Seuss, a noted progressive, was having dry heaves in the Void.)

If you laughed, you're an idiot and I feel sorry for you.

"There is no free birth control. There is no free phone. There is no free health care. There are no free Fritos. There is no free lunch."

Says a woman who's been on the grift full time for five years now, and who did, in fact, manage to work in a plug for her next inevitably cancelled television show, citing "the places where most of the people who do the working and tax-paying live...and that's where you'll find... AMAZING AMERICA!" The folks at the Very Big Fish Channel or whatever it is must be thrilled.

We even got the inevitable gloat. Back five years ago, somebody wrote down on a little card for her that allowing the Russians to invade Georgia -- as though there was anything we could have done about that -- would embolden Vladimir Putin to move on Ukraine. She dutifully read it in public and now, of course, she is the smartest geopolitical mind in the country.

"After all, who could have seen this one coming?"

In 2008, we should remember, she wasn't sure how many Koreas there were, [ http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31335.html ] thought Saddam Hussein was behind the 9/11 attacks, and was unclear whether or not Africa was a country. [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_141653.html ] So, in an act of Christian charity, I will grant that some anonymous staffer, who very likely has only now recovered from the serious heroin habit he developed while working with Palin on foreign policy in 2008, was slightly clairvoyant about the intentions of the Putin government. Well done, unsung hero. If you respect her knowledge of anything beyond where her next speaking fee is coming from, you're an idiot and I feel sorry for you.

A friend bailed on the speech, making the very plausible case that Palin is simply another political celebrity freakshow, like Donald Trump. I can see the point there but, with Palin, and watching the hysterical reception her puerile screed received, there is something more serious going on. She is the living representation of the infantilization of American politics, a poisonous Grimm Sister telling toxic fairy tales to audiences drunk on fear, and hate and nonsense. She respects no standards but her own. She is in perpetual tantrum, railing against her betters, which is practically everyone, and volunteering for the job of avatar to the country's reckless vandal of a political Id. It was the address of a malignant child delivered to an audience of malignant children. If you applauded, you're an idiot and I feel sorry for you.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/sarah-palin-cpac-2014-030814

best description I've read of her. Charles did not leave out the hate and resentment that drips from her seeking python snake tongue.... yeah, it gave us the shivers .. NO. we didn't watch any of this HATERFEST! ... and we do NOT intend to ever.. ..

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03/11/14 2:05 AM

#219999 RE: F6 #219970

Maher, and Geoffrey sp?, "damnit, sp?. always with problems!" .. God and The Flood outed ..

Geoffrey sp?, rocks .. lol .. those are some of your funniest around
CPAC 2014 .. and how about the McConnell vs 'Cruz/P or Palin/C?' Bevin stuff?

Mitch McConnell’s Senate primary turns ugly
02/20/14 07:02 AM—Updated 02/20/14 04:38 PM .. bit ..

The tea party was largely born out of opposition to the massive bank bailout, and Bevin had made McConnell’s vote for the bailout a centerpiece of his campaign. Recognizing the power of the issue, McConnell tried early in the campaign to muddy the waters by labeling his opponent “Bailout Bevin” in ads, citing grants one of his businesses received from the state of Connecticut to help rebuild a burned down factory. With the letter showing Bevin’s onetime praise for TARP, McConnell now has a far more compelling piece of evidence to back up the nickname.

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell, 2/18/14, 10:57 PM ET
Will Ted Cruz take down Mitch McConnell?

“Last week was the piece of ammunition that McConnell needed to make the plainest argument they can that this guy was a con man, to use their words,” Scott Jennings, a former McConnell aide who is running a Super PAC supporting the senator’s re-election, told msnbc. “It was sort of the perfect storm of things: it’s not arcane, it’s easy to explain, it’s black and white.”

Jennings predicted that the letter would be “the separation point” in which conservative voters who might have been open to Bevin’s message abandon his campaign. Rand Paul, who buddied up with McConnell for a state event this week after his cringe-inducing Beck interview, told state reporters that the TARP document “does hurt [Bevin’s] credibility.” Over at the Lexington Herald-Leader, the news prompted columnist Sam Youngman to ask “Is This The End For Matt Bevin?”

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/mitch-mcconnells-senate-primary-turns-ugly

links and more there .. i hope all this is looking kinda funny, too ..

March 10, 2014, 10:09 am

GOP poll shows McConnell up big over Bevin

By Alexandra Jaffe

Greg Nash

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has a nearly 40-point lead over his primary challenger, Matt Bevin, in a new Republican survey of the Kentucky Senate GOP primary.

The survey, conducted by Public Opinion Strategies .. http://images.politico.com/global/2014/03/09/ky_us_sen_gop_primary_poll_memo_-_kfsl.html .. for the pro-McConnell group Kentuckians for Strong Leadership, gives McConnell 61 percent support to Bevin’s 23 percent support.

That’s an increase in support from an early-February independent survey .. http://images.bimedia.net/documents/SUSAPOLL+Senate+Race.pdf .. of the race, which showed McConnell ahead by only 26 points. But it’s actually a decrease from the last GOP survey of the race, conducted by Wenzel Strategies .. http://www.wenzelstrategies.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Final-KY-Poll-US-Senate-2-13-2014.pdf .. at the start of February, which gave him a 42-point lead.

It’s likely McConnell’s primary lead is somewhere between those two numbers — significant double-digits, still a favorable position just over two months out from Election Day.

The polling memo also notes McConnell maintains a 33-point lead over Bevin even among voters who say they’ve heard of the GOP challenger, an indication that, even if Bevin manages to increase his profile in the state, he’ll find it difficult to break ahead.

McConnell's persistently high unpopularity has given Democrats reason to believe he's one of the GOP's most vulnerable senators this cycle, but the new survey gives McConnell a surprisingly high approval rating among GOP primary voters, with 67 percent approving of his job performance, while just 25 percent view him unfavorably.

Bevin, in contrast, is seen favorably by just 21 percent of primary voters and unfavorably by 15 percent.

McConnell has sparked the ire of conservatives throughout his career but that frustration ran particularly high last month, when he was one of a handful of Republican senators to vote to raise the debt limit.

The fallout from the move was on display last week when McConnell received a lukewarm reception from activists at the Conservative Political Action Conference just outside of Washington, D.C.

But this survey, which was conducted Feb, 24-26, about 10 days after the vote, seems to indicate he still retains some good will with Republicans.

The survey was conducted among 400 likely Republican primary voters and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percentage points.

McConnell is favored in his primary, and expected to encounter Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes in the general election in Kentucky.

http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/200318-gop-poll-shows-mcconnell-up-big-over-bevin

F6

03/14/14 4:31 AM

#220070 RE: F6 #219970

CPAC 2014 Schedule [March 8, 2014 covered this post]

March 6th, 2014
[...]
View the major speakers schedule below ...:
THURSDAY [March 6, 2014, covered in the post preceding the post to which this is a reply]
9:00 a.m. – Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
9:16 a.m. – Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA)
9:24 a.m. – Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI)
9:40 a.m. – Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
10:19 a.m. – Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
11:45 a.m. – Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
12:00 p.m. – Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA)
12:16 p.m. – Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
12:31 p.m. – Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT)
2:45 p.m. – Donald Trump
FRIDAY [March 7, 2014, covered in the post to which this is a reply]
9:00 a.m. – Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)
9:16 a.m. – Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
10:23 a.m. – Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR)
11:15 a.m. – Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition
2:26 p.m. – Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
2:40 p.m. – Al Cardenas, chairman of the American Conservative Union
2:51 p.m. – Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
SATURDAY [March 8, 2014, covered in this post]
12:45 p.m. – Newt Gingrich, former House Speaker
1:12 p.m. – Jim DeMint, president of the Heritage Foundation
5:23 p.m. – Straw poll
5:45 pm. – Former Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK)
[...]
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/view-the-full-cpac-2014-schedule/ [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 Schedule of Events [the complete schedule]
http://www.cpac.org/schedule-events
http://www.cpac.org/sites/default/files/CPAC%202014%20Schedule%20v3.5.pdf

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CPAC 2014 - FL Representative Jose Felix Diaz (FL-116)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU [ http://www.youtube.com/user/ACUConservativeUSA ; http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmqnjF1D2hhbFKIqBIVzhCK54eef2DZol ]

The Honorable Jose Felix Diaz, State Representative for Florida's 116th district, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v= [no comments yet]

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CPAC 2014 - Carlos Curbelo, Candidate for U.S. House of Representatives (R-FL)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Carlos Curbelo, candidate for the United States House of Representatives for Florida's 26th district, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfmGIbCjyd0 [no comments yet]

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CPAC 2014 - Jenny Beth Martin & Michele Bachmann

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Jenny Beth Martin (President & Co-Founder, Tea Party Patriots) and The Honorable Michele Bachmann, United States Representative for Minnesota, speak at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eJ2uZvyPNQ [with comments]

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Bill Maher New Rules - Michele Bachmann and the Devil

Published on Oct 12, 2013 by tab sam [ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBnsg2CkmAgnh-VZPsuRQ2Q ]

Bill Maher ended his show Friday night going after both Michele Bachmann and Antonin Scalia for being so open about their religious beliefs, saying even though Scalia's viewed as more serious than Bachmann, they're both the same idiot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PEA5QXbfX0 [with comments] [at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=93122768 and preceding and following] [the piece re Scalia referenced by Maher at/see (linked in) http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=93476719 and preceding (and any future following)]

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Michele Bachmann Laments That 'The Gay Community Have So Bullied The American People'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Monday, 3/10/2014 3:30 pm

Still reeling from the demise of Arizona’s “right-to-discriminate” bill, Michele Bachmann [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/michele-bachmann ] said last week that she is tired of gay people “bullying” her and the American people.

The Minnesota congresswoman told [ https://soundcloud.com/thelarslarsonshow/highlights-from-cpac-day-1-3 ] talk show host Lars Larson [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/lars-larson ] in an interview at CPAC that the gay community distorted the Arizona bill by making it about gay rights — even though the bill’s sponsor himself said [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/arizona-anti-gay-fact-check ] it was about same-sex marriage.

“There’s nothing about gays in there, but the gay community decided to make this their measure,” Bachmann said. “And the thing that I think is getting a little tiresome is the gay community have so bullied the American people and they have so intimidated politicians that politicians fear them and they think they get to dictate the agenda everywhere. Well, not with the Constitution you don’t.”

She added that gay people and “activist judges” are trying to take away her freedom: “If you want take away my religious liberties, you can advocate for that but you do it through the constitutional process and you don’t intimidate and no politician should give away my religious liberties or yours.”

[audio, "Bachmann: Gays Bully America & Are Taking Away Our Freedoms", https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/bachmann-gays-bully-america , embedded]

© 2014 People For the American Way

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michele-bachmann-laments-gay-community-have-so-bullied-american-people

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Michele Bachmann says anti-gay bullying "not a federal issue"

Republican presidential candidate, Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., arrives for a rally in Costa Mesa, Calif., Sept. 16, 2011.
AP Photo/Chris Carlson

By/Sarah Huisenga
September 16, 2011, 7:11 PM

COSTA MESA, Calif. -- Alex Limon says he came to a Michele Bachmann rally here for one reason: To ask the Republican presidential candidate what she intends to do about school bullying in her district that reportedly targets gays.

He got to ask his question, but he didn't get a lengthy answer.

"That's not a federal issue," Bachmann said, before moving on to the shake the hand of the next person waiting to speak to her.

Limon's question grew out of a recent New York Times report [ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/13/us/13bully.html ] about a Minnesota school system that's largely located in Bachmann's congressional district that's become a flashpoint for a controversy about how to discuss homosexuality with students.

The paper reported that there have been a spate of suicides in the school district and that the Justice Department is investigating anti-gay bullying in the system.

Bachmann co-owns a clinic with her husband, Marcus, that engages in therapy seeking to "convert" patients of homosexuality [ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michele-bachmanns-husband-my-clinic-does-gay-to-straight-therapy-but-its-not-our-agenda ].

© 2011 CBS Interactive Inc.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/michele-bachmann-says-anti-gay-bullying-not-a-federal-issue/

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CPAC 2014 - The Hon. Dan Hannan, Member of the European Parliament

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

The Honorable Daniel Hannan, Member of the European Parliament for South East England, Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists, journalist, and author of "The New Road to Serfdom: A Letter of Warning to America" (2010), speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2tJe9Loyw [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - On Wisconsin! Turning Blue States Red

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

After Wisconsin and beyond right-to-work laws, what's possible now to free workers and students from unionism?

Grover Norquist (President, Americans for Tax Reform) moderates the discussion with Reince Priebus (Chairman, Republican National Committee), F. Vincent Vernuccio (Director of Labor Policy, The Mackinac Center for Public Policy), Terry Scanlon (President, Capitol Research Center), and Luke Hilgemann (Chief Operating Officer, Americans for Prosperity), at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI0uSKe8q1Y [no comments yet]

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'They're Not Dead Yet': Planning The Demise Of Labor Unions At CPAC

By Dave Jamieson
Posted: 03/08/2014 2:53 pm EST Updated: 03/09/2014 12:59 pm EDT

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- Any right-wing confab probing the power of "big labor" suffers from an inherent contradiction: The ranks of unionized workers in the U.S. have never been so thinned, with less than 7 percent [ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm ] of the private sector now belonging to a labor union. A successful anti-union discussion therefore needs to strike a delicate balance, celebrating unions' diminished state while simultaneously insisting they pose as grave a threat as ever.

This rhetorical needle was ably threaded on Saturday morning by anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist, who moderated a panel at the Conservative Political Action Conference entitled "On Wisconsin! Turning Blue States Red [just above]." The panel sought to answer a strategic question for the right: "After Wisconsin and beyond right-to-work laws, what’s possible now to free workers and students from unionism?"

While acknowledging that union membership has fallen to a historic low, Norquist began the discussion by claiming that unions are the greatest political force in America at the moment.

"They're not dead yet -- they're in decline," Norquist said. "They raise maybe $7 billion a year in dues. Imagine how much they spend of that on politics. They are the largest political player in American politics and will be for some time. What can we do about it?"

Better known for his tax work, Norquist has quickly become a major figure among anti-union activists through the Center for Worker Freedom, an arm of his group Americans for Tax Reform. Norquist's crew bankrolled the anti-union billboards [ http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/22/us-autos-uaw-election-analysis-idUSBREA1L13220140222 ] plastered throughout the Chattanooga, Tenn., area in the runup to the United Auto Workers' ill-fated union vote at a Volkswagen plant there last month.

The UAW's narrow loss, by a 53 to 47 margin, was a stinging defeat for organized labor and a major setback for the union's plans in the South. The UAW has accused Norquist and a host of Republican politicians -- including Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) -- of unfairly meddling in the election as third parties and possibly tainting the results.

Many UAW opponents on the right said they were concerned the union's presence would hurt the plant's expansion plans or make it harder to attract new businesses to Tennessee. But one of Norquist's panelists, Terry Scanlon, president of the Capital Research Center, seemed to acknowledge Saturday that the true fight in Chattanooga was a political one. This was the "unmentionable" that Scanlon nonetheless mentioned.

"What is really good here is the unmentionable: There will be so much less money without all these dues, 90-some percent in most cases, going to Democrats," Scanlon said during the panel. "Without the money there, it's not going to happen. This is great news. It's great news."

Norquist didn't dwell on his Tennessee victory, instead steering the discussion toward a larger picture: how the right can fundamentally weaken unions through state legislation. That includes collective bargaining rollbacks like the monumental one carried out by Gov. Scott Walker (R) in Wisconsin in 2011, as well as right-to-work laws like those recently passed in Michigan and Indiana. Right-to-work laws forbid contracts between companies and unions that require all workers to pay the union for bargaining on their behalf, thereby diminishing unions' clout.

The panelists agreed that after seeing Michigan, the cradle of the U.S. auto industry, go right-to-work in 2012, almost anything seemed possible.

"The good news is you have 24 states today with a Republican governor and both houses of the legislature who are Republican," Scanlon said. "You have a shot at right-to-work in any of these states. ... It can be done. It takes time, and you have to set the mechanism up even if you don't have a majority of Republicans."

F. Vincent Vernuccio, director of labor policy at the free-market think tank Mackinac Center for Public Policy, said Republican governors and state lawmakers needn't worry about political repercussions from fast-tracking a right-to-work law through the legislature. Republicans are still standing in places like Indiana, he said.

"When a politician says right-to-work is simply unattainable and they're worried about their job, look at the states that passed right-to-work," Vernuccio said.

Public-sector union membership remains robust, at 35 percent [ http://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm ], but anti-union conservatives smell vulnerability. As Norquist noted, the prevailing attitude used to be that "you can't do anything about the public sector." That's no longer the case, particularly after Wisconsin, where most public-sector workers have lost their collective bargaining rights (and where public-sector unions have since lost many of their dues-paying members).

Panelist Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said that the key to gutting public-sector bargaining rights in Wisconsin was deference to the cause throughout Wisconsin's right flank. It was agreed that they would all share mutually in the glory, Priebus said.

"Americans for Prosperity, Tea Party groups, the GrandSons of Liberty, the 9-12'ers were involved -- it was a total and complete agreement that nobody cared who got the credit, that everyone was going to run down the tracks together and help each other where we could," Priebus said.

Despite such victories, Norquist warned that Obama "owed" something to unions after failing to shepherd through Congress the Employee Free Choice Act, a bill that would have made it easier for workers to unionize. Norquist said it was a political mistake for Obama to prioritize the Affordable Care Act before EFCA, since he could have helped grow the ranks of organized labor to Democrats' benefit. But that failure has left him with a debt to unions, Norquist argued.

"That's why you're seeing the National Labor Relations Board out there putting their thumbs on the scale, and that's going to be a big problem for us in the next three years," Norquist said of the independent agency that enforces labor law. Obama has "stacked" the five-member board, in Norquist's words. (He has appointed three members of his own party and two from the opposition, in keeping with tradition.)

With Democrats holding a majority in the Senate and Obama in the White House, there's little chance of any anti-union laws coming out of Washington anytime soon. But the panelists said they see plenty more opportunity at the state level. When Norquist asked Vernuccio to rattle off some right-to-work targets, he didn't hesitate.

"We're looking at Ohio. We're looking at Missouri. We're looking at Kentucky," Vernuccio said. "The fire of worker freedom is shining brightly, and it is spreading."

Copyright © 2014 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/08/cpac-unions_n_4926345.html [with embedded video report, and comments]

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CPAC 2014 - David Keene, The Washington Times

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

David Keene (Opinion Editor, The Washington Times), delivers comments at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014, and introduces a distinguished panel of speakers:

- Chris Long (President, Intercollegiate Studies Institute)
- Rich Lowry (Editor, National Review)
- Katherine Mangu-Ward (Managing Editor, Reason Magazine)
- Dr. Paul Kengor (Professor of Political Science, Grove City College)

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36pJ8za5low [with comment]

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CPAC 2014 - Buckley, ACU, and the Future of the Conservative Union

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Can the ACU's history take us back to the future of ascendant conservatism?

David Keene (Opinion Editor, The Washington Times) moderates the discussion with Chris Long (President, Intercollegiate Studies Institute), Rich Lowry (Editor, National Review), Katherine Mangu-Ward (Managing Editor, Reason Magazine), and Dr. Paul Kengor (Professor of Political Science, Grove City College), at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IARZJe_9Ba0 [with comment]

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CPAC 2014 - Michael Marino, Recording Artist

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Sponsored by Big Dawg Music Radio, recording artist Michael Marino performs before attendees of CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-ypb9BlSZM [with comment]

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Bill Maher on Jesus Camp

Uploaded on Sep 24, 2006 by aardvark300 [ http://www.youtube.com/user/aardvark300 ]

Frightening, terrifying stuff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNpk2uR64sQ [with comments]

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Bill Maher - New Rule: From Elites to Jesus

Uploaded on Mar 5, 2009 by sean [ http://www.youtube.com/user/seanryan00 ]

No description available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=783fvkxckKo [with comments]

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Real Time with Bill Maher: How Dangerous is the Hate Talk From the Right?

Uploaded on Mar 22, 2009 by gbCerberus37 [ http://www.youtube.com/user/gbCerberus37 ]

I neither claim ownership nor profit in any way from uploading this clip. Viewer's minds, however, profit from having seen it. If you want more, get HBO.

http://www.hbo.com/real-time-with-bill-maher#/
http://crooksandliars.com/heather/real-time-how-dangerous-hate-talk-right

Story Olbermann mentions: http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2009/02/know-this-if-nothing-else-this-was-hate.html

Partial Transcript:

Maher: Listening to people like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck these days, I cannot figure out whether these right wingers are more dangerous when they're in power or when they're out of power, because when they're out of power, you know their paranoid, their paranoia goes off the charts. This Glenn Beck guy, I wouldn't even give him the time of day except he's a big star now on Fox and a lot of people believe, and he's talking about FEMA concentration camps.

Olbermann: Yeah...

Maher: He says we are headed toward socialism, totalitarianism...

Olbermann: Yeah...

Maher:...beyond your wildest imagination, but apparently not beyond his wildest imagination.

Washington: Right, right.

Sorkin: Did you see what he said about that? He said I can't prove these FEMA concentration camps, but let me tell you about them anyway.

Washington: Yeah, yeah.

Sorkin: You'd think it would be the opposite.

Olbermann: Can I quote Madeleine Albright?

Maher: Please.

Olbermann: He's nuts.

Maher: You know I would never be the person who says that you have to watch what you say because some borderline nut...no really...I'm not for that. No, no, that's an argument that's given a lot. You can't say this because a borderline might take it and then do this. I'm sorry but that's the price of living in a free speech country and I do want to live in one because I make my living at it. Okay. But you know I must say Tim McVeigh in 1995 if you recall, this was the same kind of talking that made him blow up that building.

Olbermann: The guy who walked into the church in Tennessee said in his statement to the police that he did this because he could not shoot the liberals who were on the lists from Bernie Goldberg, and Bernie Goldberg has proceeded to come out with another list of liberals and this time I'm on the list so this is even more vivid in my mind now. So yeah you're absolutely right about that. I think what you're seeing with, I mean I have been accused occasionally of sort of bordering on Howard Beale. Hey I got nothing on this guy for Howard Beale.

This is, you know in the last major economic crisis of this nation we spewed forth Father Coughlin. Well this is Father Coughlin with a crew cut. This is Father Coughlin on TV. This is, he's, who knows what he's going to say next week because if we can't understand what he's saying now he also has that same threshold. He doesn't know what he's saying now. It just sounds great. It's wonderful. It is a manic depressive high.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0Po0eZtmNc [with comments]

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Maher: Right-Wing Believes "Wouldn't It Be Fun To Kill The People We Disagree With"

Uploaded on Jan 12, 2011 by gregtassone [ http://www.youtube.com/user/gregtassone ]

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9wudzy1-pY [with comments]

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Austin Ruse Says Left-Wing University Professors 'Should All Be Taken Out And Shot'

Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 3/12/2014 2:05 pm

While filling in [ http://www.afa.net/Radio/show.aspx?id=2147491277&tab=audio&audio=2147544182 ] today for American Family Radio host Sandy Rios, Austin Ruse [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/austin-ruse ] commented on the media frenzy surrounding a Duke University freshman who announced that she is a porn actress.

Ruse, who leads the ultraconservative Catholic Family & Human Rights Institute (C-Fam [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/catholic-family-and-human-rights-institute ]), promptly blamed the college’s women’s studies department and said that “the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities” should “all be taken out and shot.”

[audio, "Ruse: University Professors Should Be Shot", https://soundcloud.com/rightwingwatch/ruse-university-professors , embedded]

That is the nonsense that they teach in women’s studies at Duke University, this is where she learned this. The toxic stew of the modern university is gender studies, it’s “Sex Week,” they all have “Sex Week” and teaching people how to be sex-positive and overcome the patriarchy. My daughters go to a little private religious school and we pay an arm and a leg for it precisely to keep them away from all of this kind of nonsense. I do hope that they go to a Christian college or university and to keep them so far away from the hard left, human-hating people that run modern universities, who should all be taken out and shot.

© 2014 People For the American Way

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/austin-ruse-says-left-wing-university-professors-should-all-be-taken-out-and-shot

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CPAC 2014 - The Market Potential of Latin America

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

A market as large as China lies untapped south of the U.S. border.

Patrick Kilbride (Executive Director, Americas, U.S. Chamber of Commerce) moderates the discussion with The Honorable Roger Noriega (Research Fellow, American Enterprise Institute), Dan Griswold (President, National Association of Foreign Trade Zones), and The Honorable Luis Fortun~o, former Governor of Puerto Rico, at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJyD_yQ52mI [no comments yet]

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CPAC 2014 - Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

The Honorable Newt Gingrich, former United States Representative for Georgia and 58th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, author, historian and political consultant speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faimN8CfXvg [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Dr. Ben Carson, Professor Emeritus and Author

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Benjamin "Ben" Carson, Sr., Neurosurgeon, Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, author of "America the Beautiful", and the 2008 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5P6PgS1X6g [with comments]

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HATE SPEECH

Published on Feb 15, 2014 by DarkMatter2525 [ http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525 ; http://www.youtube.com/user/DarkMatter2525/videos?view=0&flow=grid ]

Can you find the hate speech hidden within this video?
I was inspired to make this video because of the tantrums I've seen religious people throw when they see a billboard stating that atheists are good without God, or that nobody needs Christ, etc (really benign stuff). Meanwhile, I've seen billboards that have endured for decades, across the street from elementary schools, suggesting that you'll burn in agony if you're not a Christian. Crickets. There's quite a double standard, and if the tactics were reversed, aneurysms, heart attacks, and strokes would ensue - basically hardcore outrage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXpJuEnNnw [with comments]

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Bill Maher on how the GOP imagines Barack Obama

Uploaded on Jan 30, 2012 by Kenneth Lloyd [ http://www.youtube.com/user/BBQasaurus ]

The GOP pretty much makes up "facts" they want to believe about President Obama so they have some ammo to hate him with. If they focused on his achievements he's actually accomplished rather than imagining their worst fears, they might end up liking the guy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mq7BDGib4Ek [with comments]

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Ben Carson: U.S. Like Nazi Germany 'Because Of The PC Police' (VIDEO)

Caitlin MacNeal – March 12, 2014, 1:32 PM EDT

Fox News contributor and retired neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson on Monday compared American society to Nazi Germany.

"I mean, [our society is] very much like Nazi Germany," Carson told Breitbart News [ http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2014/03/12/Exclusive-Dr-Ben-Carson-Our-Government-Is-Like-Nazi-Germany ], after declaring [ http://www.thenewyorkmeeting.com/about-the-ny-meeting.html ] that we were living in a "Gestapo age." "And I know you're not supposed to say 'Nazi Germany,' but I don't care about political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe."

Carson listed multiple aspects of America that he believes intimidates people into silence.

"And it's because of the PC police, it's because of politicians, it's because of news. It's all of these things are combining to stifle people’s conversation," he said. "The reason that is so horrible is because the only way that you have harmony and reach consensus is by talking. But if, in fact, people are afraid to talk, you never reach consensus. And instead you grow further and further apart. And that’s exactly what’s happening, creating a horrible schism that will destroy our nation if we don’t fix it."

Just a month ago, Carson said at a fundraising event [ http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/ben-carson-nazi-reference ] that America could become the next Nazi Germany because progressives want to "fundamentally change who we are."

The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday issued a statement saying that they fact-checked Carson's claim and found that, "America is actually NOT like Nazi Germany."

"However, Carson (a retired neurosurgeon & Fox News contributor) IS being tested by the Republican National Committee as a top-tier presidential candidate in 2016," DNC Press Secretary Michael Czin wrote in an email statement. "Welcome to the future of the Republican Party."

Watch the interview via Breitbart TV:

[video embedded]

© 2014 TPM Media LLC

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/carson-america-nazi-germany [with comments]

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Bill Maher DESTROYS idiots who went to heaven and back

Published on Aug 12, 2013 by James Bond [ http://www.youtube.com/user/conraddeath123 ]

Why are prominent Americans so stupid?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19LUncgG8VA [with comments] [and see again in particular the YouTubes "American Atheists Booted From CPAC", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJPlkF1GcQA (with comments), and "Real Time - Bill Maher Educates The Tea Party On The Founding Fathers", http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RY0Y7vQF13U (with comments), both in the post to which this is a reply]

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Bill Maher - New Rules: Christian Values - Love Thy Neighbor

Published on Nov 9, 2013 by theReasonists [ http://www.youtube.com/user/theReasonists ]

No description available.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmuwMZbf1Es [with comments]

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'Sundays Are The Worst' Website Urges Christians To Tip Better

03/11/2014
It's not easy being a restaurant server, and the job is even harder when people leave lousy tips. That's why Pastor Chad Roberts of Preaching Christ Church in Kingsport, Tennessee has set up a website for servers to vent about waiting on Sunday church crowds called "Sundays are the Worst [ http://www.sundaysaretheworst.com/ ]."
He explains on the website:
"Christians have a bad reputation when it comes to Sunday lunch times. Being a server at a restaurant is even harder; bad tips/ rude people/ more complaints-- the list goes on. As a church we want to change! This site is a place of pure honesty and testimony for those who serve at a local restaurant to share how they get treated when the church crowd comes in. Compared to a normal weekday, Sundays are the worst."
Roberts told the Times News [ http://www.timesnews.net/article/9073971/kingsport-church-launches-website-for-servers-to-vent-about-sunday-church-crowd ] that he came up with the idea for the website after hearing about the story of Alois Bell [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/justin-lee/are-christians-christianitys-worst-enemies_b_2586339.html ], a pastor who wrote on her receipt in lieu of a tip, "I give God ten percent, why do you get 18." He wanted to address the "disconnect" between the serving community and the church crowd that he perceived.
He said that some people don't realize how much their behavior reflects on their faith, explaining, "That’s the purpose of this campaign, to cause them to realize that their attitude matters and it affects those around them." ...
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/sundays-are-the-worst-christian-tipping_n_4934418.html [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - The Hon. Jim DeMint, The Heritage Foundation

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

The Honorable Jim DeMint, former United States Senator and Representative for South Carolina and current President of The Heritage Foundation, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTarSCsNNl4 [no comments yet]

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CPAC 2014 - Carly Fiorina, American Conservative Union Foundation

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Carly Fiorina, Chairman of the American Conservative Union Foundation, former United States Senate candidate for California and CEO of Hewlett-Packard, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KTY_HQcYU8 [with comment]

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CPAC 2014 - Debate: Ann Coulter and Mickey Kaus, in Honor of W. F. Buckley's Firing Line

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Jonathan Garthwaite (VP & General Manager of Townhall Media) moderates this tribute to William F. Buckley Jr.'s "Firing Line", a debate between syndicated columnist, author and commentator Ann Coulter and journalist Mickey Kaus [introduced as "today's liberal", http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Kaus ], pundit and author of the blog "Kausfiles", at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0xfjM_9z2o [with comments]

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Christopher Hitchens and William F Buckley Jr on Firing Line

Published on Jul 6, 2013 by Christopher Hitchens [ http://www.youtube.com/user/fdafdafdafadfddfffwe ]

Subject: 'Is There a Liberal Crack Up'
Dated: 1984

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeGKcX-JHNE [with comments] [also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL1TZQIJgf4 (with comments)]

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CPAC 2014 - More Guns, Less Crime: Law Enforcement is Embracing a Well-Armed Civilian Population

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

The police have discovered that guns in the hands of law abiding Americans may be the best defense against guns in the hands of criminals.

Chris Cox (Executive Director, National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action) moderates the discussion with Emily Miller (Senior Opinion Editor, The Washington Times). David Clark (Sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin), and The Honorable Sandy Adams, former United States Representative for Florida, at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUsowizXKe8 [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Healthcare after ObamaCare: A Practical Guide, Part 2

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

How to cope with Obamacare moving forward.

Dan Garza (Executive Director, LIBRE Initiative) discusses how to navigate the new landscape of healthcare with Evan Feinberg (President, Generation Opportunity), The Honorable Scott Pruitt, Attorney General of Oklahoma, Shona Robertson Holmes (Patient's Rights Advocate), and The Honorable Mark Green, Tennessee State Senator, at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9bw97Qf-s [with comment]

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Ted Cruz Still Thinks The GOP Can Repeal Obamacare While Obama Is In Office

by Mollie Reilly
Posted: 03/09/2014 1:03 pm EDT Updated: 03/10/2014 11:59 am EDT

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is still not willing to give up his crusade against the Affordable Care Act.

During an interview with ABC's "This Week" airing Sunday, Cruz said he believes Republicans could repeal "every single word" of President Barack Obama's signature legislation -- even while the president remains in office.

ABC's Jonathan Karl pressed Cruz to explain why he believes repeal is still worth pursuing:

KARL: We can acknowledge that that's not going to happen while Barack Obama is president, right?

CRUZ: Yes, I'll give you one scenario where it could. If there's one things that unifies politicians of both parties, you know, their top priority is preserving their own hide. And if enough Congressional Democrats realize they either stand with ObamaCare and lose, or they listen to the American people and have a chance at staying in office, that's the one scenario we could do it in 2015. If not, we'll do it in 2017.

KARL: So you honestly think there's a chance that you can get ObamaCare repealed, every word, as you say?

CRUZ: Every single word.

KARL: With Obama in the White House?

CRUZ: You know, what's funny, Jon, is the media treats that as a bizarre proposition.

KARL: Well, it is. CRUZ: Because...

(CROSSTALK)

CRUZ: It is...

KARL: It is a bizarre proposition.

CRUZ: It is the most unpopular law in the country. Millions of people have lost their jobs, have lost their health care, have been forced into part-time work, have their premiums skyrocketing. And right now, Washington isn't listening to those people. That's how we win elections and that's also how we repeal ObamaCare.

The freshman senator has been one of the most vocal critics of the health care reform law. Last fall, he led the charge to tie funding for Obamacare to a continuing resolution to the fund the government -- a strategy that ultimately shut down the government for 16 days [ http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/politics/shutdown-showdown/ ], cost $2 billion [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-government-shutdown-cost-2-billion-in-lost-productivity-omb-report-says/2013/11/07/e883c3ec-47f2-11e3-bf0c-cebf37c6f484_story.html ] in lost productivity and made no changes to the health care law. The shutdown also took a toll on Cruz's popularity, with a CNN/ORC International [ http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/22/cnn-poll-gop-tea-party-unfavorables-at-all-time-highs/ ] poll finding the senator's approval rating dropping to 23 percent last October.

Cruz has said he has no regrets, and has instead tried to pin blame for the shutdown on his rivals.

"I think it was absolutely a mistake for President Obama and Harry Reid to force a government shutdown," Cruz told [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/29/ted-cruz-government-shutdown_n_4515279.html ] Karl in a December interview.

In January, Cruz again attempted [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/16/ted-cruz-obamacare_n_4612582.html ] to attach amendments defunding Obamacare to a major bill -- this time, the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package. However, his Senate colleagues quickly shut down the proposal.

Copyright © 2014 TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/09/ted-cruz-obamacare_n_4930487.html [the YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vPBMThIN4s (with comments), as originally embedded; with (separate) embedded video report, and comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Is Ukraine's Future East or West?

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Portents for twenty-first century conflict.

The Honorable Paula Dobriansky, former Undersecretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs discusses issues confronting Ukraine with Paul Sanders (Executive Director, Center for the National Interest), Cliff May (President, Foundation for Defense of Democracies), and The Honorable Anna Fotyga [not present], former Member of European Parliament and former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT9pTikg_-8 [with comment]

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CPAC 2014 - IN State Senator Jim Banks (IN-17)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

The Honorable Jim Banks, State Senator for Indiana's 17th district, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDE_1DN4zQo [no comments yet]

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CPAC 2014 - NY State Senator Lee Zeldin (NY-3)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

The Honorable Lee Zeldin, State Senator for New York's 3rd district, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Y3Ib-iv5g [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Clairvoyance and Hard Data: Electoral Trends for 2014, 2016, and... 2040

Published on Mar 10, 2014 by The ACU

Moderator: Ralph Hallow, Political Editor at The Washington Times
Pat Cadell, Pollster
Whit Ayres, Founder & President, North Star Opinion Research

Are demographics destiny, and what markers should conservatives really be focused on for future elections?

Recorded on March 8, 2014 at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8CaQgi-2Ks [no comments yet]

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CPAC 2014 - Why Conservatism is Right for Women

Published on Mar 10, 2014 by The ACU

Why Conservatism is Right for Women: How Conservatives Should Talk About Life, Prosperity and National Security.

The real war is the fight against ideological stereotypes.

Panel Participants:
Tammy Bruce, Deputy Editor, The Washington Times. Moderator.
Kate Obenshain, author of "Divider-in-Chief".
Crystal Wright, Conservativeblackchick.com.
Sabrina Schaeffer, Executive Director, Independent Women's Forum.
The Honorable Marilinda Garcia, State Representative for New Hampshire.

Recorded on March 8, 2014 at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kD-WaM-kKRM [with comments]

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Mike Huckabee: Treat Female Opponents As 'Special Treasure' With 'Sense Of Pedestal'

03/10/2014
Female candidates should be treated with a "sense of pedestal," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said during a recent interview with The New Republic while discussing a potential presidential run against Hillary Clinton.
While male adversaries are "common" in the political sphere, female opponents demand "a sense of pedestal," Huckabee told TNR reporter Nora Caplan-Bricker, according to Salon [ http://www.salon.com/2014/03/10/huckabee_on_women_treat_female_opponents_as_special_treasure_with_sense_of_pedestal/ ]. The story on Huckabee will appear in the next issue of TNR.
Reflecting on his own experience running against female candidates, the former preacher explained that "it’s a very different approach." Huckabee beat out Democrat Charlie Cole Chaffin in the 1994 race for Arkansas lieutenant governor and later won a 2002 gubernatorial reelection campaign against Democrat Jimmie Lou Fisher.
"[F]or those of us who have some chivalry left, there’s a level of respect," Huckabee told TNR. "You treat some things as a special treasure; you treat other things as common."
"I’ll put it this way," Huckabee added, "I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn’t worry about calling them on Valentine’s Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK."
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A staunch opponent of the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/obamacare-contraception-mandate_n_3660480.html ], Huckabee faced criticism in January for accusing Democrats of convincing women to rely on the government for controlling "their libidos."
"And if the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control, because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it," Huckabee said [ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/23/mike-huckabee-women_n_4653426.html ] at a Republican National Committee meeting.
Refusing to back down from his controversial remarks, Huckabee told The New Republic he would not allow others to "dictate to me a lexicon of words I can use." Huckabee explained that limiting one's word choice means "your creativity is being stifled as a writer because it might upset someone!"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/10/mike-huckabee-hillary-clinton_n_4936139.html [with comments]

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Ladies Looking

Published on Feb 13, 2014 by TheSecondCityNetwork [ http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSecondCityNetwork ]

Real women read real messages from Grindr, SCRUFF, and GROWLr

Happy Valentine's Day!

Directed by Tim Paul
Featuring
Blair Beeken
Sayjal Joshi
Abby McEnany
Jo Scott
Claudia Michelle Wallace

Produced by Jeph Porter
Edited by Jason Culver

(c) 2014 The Second City Inc.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbUa1mFM-LM [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Erika Harold, Candidate for Illinois Congress (IL-13)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Erika Harold, former Miss America (2003), Attorney, and Republican candidate for Illinois's 13th congressional district, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FEZyWTC5xw [with comments]

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Top 5 Most Annoying Conservative & Christian Women

Uploaded on Jul 21, 2011 by flammable2002 [ http://www.youtube.com/user/flammable2002 ]

A list of the 5 most annoying christian conservative women, as of 2011. These women are not only dumb and loud, but their pervasive ignorance is also dangerous and destructive.

ADDENDUM: To all those asking why Michele Bachmann isn't on this list; I'm embarrassed to say that when I made this list...I hadn't actually heard much about her. Since then, as we all know, she's tried and failed at becoming the Republican Presidential Nominee, and provided us with an insightful look at her own stupidity. Were I to remake the list today, I'd probably include her as #3. I still think Elisabeth Hasselbeck and Sarah Palin are dumber, more obnoxious, more annoying, and certainly more pervasive than she is. Hasselbeck spews her vitriol day in and day out on the View, damaging the nations collective intellect endlessly. And Sarah Palin almost got elected Vice President, that makes her the scariest thing since the Cuban Missile Crisis.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tif3l-bnMyE [with comments]

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Top 10 Most Annoying Christian & Conservative Men

Uploaded on Dec 18, 2011 by flammable2002

A list of the 10 most annoying christian conservative men, as of 2011. These men are not only dumb, loud, and ridiculous, but their pervasive ignorance is also dangerous and destructive.
By the way, I consider Gretchen Carlson to be a man. Deal with it.

ADDENDUM: I recently had a response from a youtuber that proved me wrong on #10.

"Andrew Brietbart was Jewish not Christian. Do your research." - KennyVaughan

He's right, Breitbart was a Jewish agnostic and had I bothered to research thoroughly enough (i.e. even just googled "Andrew Breitbart religion") I would have discovered this.
So I apologise for the lazy assumption, but I feel somewhat vindicated because of the stance that Breitbart took on so many issues, like calling those Jews who didn't agree with him "Lefty Zionists" and "scientifically provably stupid". Not only that, but his completely dogmatic approach towards his political party reminds me of evangelicals and the orthodox (Yes, he was a republican, don't bother giving me that "Libertarian" bullshit). In short, he had a religious way of thinking even if he wasn't distinctly religious. Add to this an overwhelming support from the Christian Right, who called him a "warrior" and a "friend", and I'd say he was as annoying as any politically active christian extremist. Doesn't change the fact that he was Jewish though. It's still embarrassing to admit.

However, I will end with this quote:

"I consider myself to be a Judeo-Christian. ... I relate to the world view that America has...It's a distinctly Judeo-Christian one and I think that it works." - Andrew Breitbart

If anyone can point out any other areas where I messed up, please let me know. The last thing I want to be is factually inaccurate.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA_QSEh-EAI [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Benji Backer, 16 Year-Old Speaker and Conservative Activist

Published on Mar 9, 2014 by The ACU

Benji Backer, a 16 year-old conservative activist and speaker from Appleton, Wisconsin, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIZ1EjRT_eY [with comment]

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Bill Maher's New Rule To Conservatives: 'You Act Exactly Like 14 Year Old Boys'

Published on Jun 23, 2012 by JaxonRoberts [ http://www.youtube.com/user/JaxonRoberts ]

BEST. NEW. RULE. EVER!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kAVaIXosvw [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - Graham Ledger, "The Daily Ledger"

Published on Mar 9, 2014 by The ACU

Graham Ledger, host of One America News Network's "The Daily Ledger", two-time EMMY-Award winner for best news writing, two-time Golden Microphone winner, and Big Brother's and Sister's "Man of the Year" (2000), speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_YWH2wbw2U [with comment]

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CPAC 2014 - Results of the 2014 CPAC Straw Poll

Published on Mar 9, 2014 by The ACU

Larry Beasley (President and CEO, The Washington Times), The Honorable Al Cardenas (Chairman, American Conservative Union), and pollster and strategist Tony Fabrizio present results of the 2014 CPAC Straw Poll.

Recorded on March 8, 2014 at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhdqiG28O6Y [with comments]

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CPAC 2014 - The Hon. Al Cardenas, Closing Remarks

Published on Mar 9, 2014 by The ACU

The Honorable Al Cardenas (Chairman, American Conservative Union), presents closing remarks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqP1rwLxPQU

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CPAC 2014 - Former Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK)

Published on Mar 8, 2014 by The ACU

Former Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin, 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, author, television host and commentator, speaks at CPAC 2014 on March 8, 2014.

Recorded at the American Conservative Union (ACU) Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Washington, D.C.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wltc7RMBPeQ [with comments]

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FactChecking Sarah Palin at CPAC
March 10, 2014
http://www.factcheck.org/2014/03/factchecking-sarah-palin-at-cpac/

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Sia Blasts Sarah Palin For Using 'Titanium' At CPAC

Pop star Sia spoke out against Sarah Palin's recent song choice at the Conservative Political Action Conference. Here, Palin speaks during the 41st annual Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord International Hotel and Conference Center on March 8, 2014 in National Harbor, Md.
03/12/2014
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/12/sia-sarah-palin-titanium_n_4948678.html [with comments]

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Real Time With Bill Maher on Palin's extreme religion

Uploaded on Oct 5, 2008 by Turbo617 [ http://www.youtube.com/user/Turbo617 ]

Remember it when you go to vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ScX_dThR7U [with comments]

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Bill Maher Thanks Teabaggers and Sarah Palin (TOO FUNNY) - 3/26/10

Uploaded on Mar 27, 2010 by yankzny [ http://www.youtube.com/user/yankzny ]

Bill Maher thanks the teabaggers for "helping pass" the new healthcare reform bill in a way only Bill Maher can. We also have New Rules for March 26th, 2010 and a little revisit of Sarah Palin's "Hows that hopey changey stuff working out for ya".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvsMFN9P8AU [with comments]

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Crazy Stuff You Probably Missed From CPAC 2014

by Matt Wilstein | 5:57 pm, March 7th, 2014

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These Craigslist 'Casual Encounters' Entries (AKA Gay Hook-Ups)

Apparently, CPAC is the perfect place for a certain type of conservative to find some hot m4m action, like this guy, who writes, "What I'm looking for, you, a masculine Ayn Rand, me, the 47%. And I want you to slap me around hard and give it to me good." [Daily Intelligencer [ http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/03/cpac-craigslist-casual-encounters-2014-edition.html ]]

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The Most Conservative Car at CPAC

This is one way to make sure people know where you stand on the issues. [@bennyjohnson [ https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/441963226222567424 ]]

Dr. Ben Carson Hotel Keycards

The National Draft Ben Carson for President Committee bought real estate on the keycards at the Gaylord hotel where this year's event is being held. Yes, that's the actual name of the hotel. [TheBlaze [ http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2014/03/07/look-whos-face-is-on-the-hotel-keys-at-cpac/ ]]

The Elephant Ice Luge

The booze comes out of its trunk. [@moody [ https://twitter.com/moody/status/442066015867138048 ]]

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The Gay Beaver on This Anti-GOProud Flier

He is very close to making Ronald Reagan fall off his stool. [Yahoo! [ http://news.yahoo.com/cpac-2014-photos-201023705.html ]]

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© 2014 Mediaite, LLC

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/heres-all-the-crazy-stuff-you-probably-missed-from-cpac-2014/ [with comments]

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The Best Of The Dish Today

by Andrew Sullivan
Mar 10 2014 @ 9:00pm

The news cycle is so punishing these days you might be forgiven for thinking the Obama era is over. But it isn’t. It’s at its peak in terms of impact, because policies, especially economic ones, take some time to have effect. Five years in, we have enough data – so reading through the Economic Report from the Council of Economic Advisers [ http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/full_2014_economic_report_of_the_president.pdf ; http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/cea/economic-report-of-the-President/2014 ] is therefore a helpful exercise. And it seems to me to be a rather impressive record – and utterly alien from the picture of gloom and dysfunction the Republicans are currently concocting.

I’ll restrict myself to core facts that are not in dispute, rather than the arguments in the report. Take the economy. Despite unprecedented austerity at the state and local government level, it’s now clear that the US has recovered from the Great Recession better than any other economy:

At least we can say with certainty that the stimulus didn’t fail, despite the silly denial in the GOP. The massive debt overhang – always the biggest drag on growth – has also been substantially reduced:

The deficit has come down at a rapid pace, without tipping us back into recession. And a key indicator of future debt – the cost of healthcare – is looking much better than it once did (although the causes for it remain disputed):

Then this amazing chart:

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ReaganBook Is the Latest Conservative #Fail

The Daily Beast

ReaganBook, described by its founder as “the Facebook for patriots” is the latest in a long line of poorly done conservative social networks. A day after launching, the site was overrun with trolls and taken down by admins.

Gideon Resnick
07.31.14

Ohio Republican Janet Porter was fed up with Facebook restricting the voices of conservatives like her. So on Tuesday, she launched ReaganBook.com, “the Facebook for patriots [ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uT7TkobfURw (next below)].”

The site features a picture of Reagan’s smiling face colored in the hues of the American flag, next to a quote that functions as the social networking platform’s manifesto: “We built it, we paid for it, it’s ours and we’re going to keep it.” Take that, Zuckerberg.

This is by no means the first time that conservatives have established private social networks. ReaganBook follows in the footsteps of The Tea Party Community [ https://www.teapartycommunity.com/ ], Social PostUp [ http://www.redflagnews.com/socialpostup ], and FreedomTorch [ http://www.freedomtorch.com/ ], among others. If none of these sound familiar, it’s because they’ve all failed to attain tangible resonance outside of the niche communities that populate the sites.

ReaganBook shows no discernable signs of longevity. It’s already been forced to temporarily shut down, after many of its thousand-plus members are trolls calling themselves things like “Albradorft Lincler,” “Al Zheimers,” and “Ben Ghazi.” The site runs tremendously slowly, and its attempts to interact with members through a messaging platform have proven fruitless. There’s hardly any involvement in thought-provoking (and clearly troll-created) pages like “Cut Dicks for Christ,” which simply says: “Calling all cut dicks.”

But a page devoted to the metal band Slayer has garnered the likes of “Dick Cheney,” “Manuel Noriega,” and “Israel.” An impressive roster of interested parties for a website that has only been around for a day.

Porter, who is the president of Faith2Action [ http://f2a.org/ ], “a pro-life, pro-family” advocacy group that wants to “ADVANCE the cause of Christ and the kingdom of God,” did not return a request for comment from The Daily Beast about her fledgling Internet venture.

Although it’s easy to chalk up ReaganBook as an abject failure, loading at a snail’s pace and overrun by trolls, Facebook has given conservatives incentive to go rogue in the past.

“Tomorrow Facebook employees are gathering to go march at the gay pride parade in San Francisco,” Porter said [ http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/get-ready-reaganbook-facebook-patriots (with the above YouTube embedded)] last weekend at the Ohio Liberty Coalition event called Reload 4 Liberty.

“While they kick people off [Facebook] who happen to have an unpopular belief, like being in favor of marriage—a buddy of mine Peter LaBarbera, [of] Americans for Truth—taken off Facebook. They’re censoring things and I’m saying we shouldn’t use it,” Porter said.

Porter was referencing an organization called Americans for Truth about Homosexuality, “a national organization devoted exclusively to exposing and countering the homosexual activist agenda,” according to its website [ http://americansfortruth.com/issues/homosexual-parenting/] ]. She alleges that the Illinois-based group, whose most recent campaign involved pressuring Starbucks to take down an ad portraying two lesbian mothers, has been censored on Facebook. But it’s clear that they have an active page [ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Americans-for-Truth-About-Homosexuality/116587365084888?sk=timeline ], helping them to wage their “culture war.”

LaBarbera did not responded to a request for comment from The Daily Beast.

Other conservative groups claim to have faced the threat of shutdown from the Facebook overlords, too. The popular page for conservative media site Chicks on the Right [ https://www.facebook.com/ChicksOnTheRight ], run by Amy Jo Clark and Miriam Weaver, was briefly shut down after a 2013 post [ http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/01/23/facebook-apologizes-for-threatening-to-shut-down-conservative-fan-page-over-post-critical-of-obama-admin/ ] which read: “Jay Carney can kiss my assular area.” At the time, Facebook apologized for issuing a block to the page.

Weaver and Jo Clark were far from bowled over when they visited ReaganBook.com.

“We noticed a lot of pornographic photos right on the front page when we first looked at it,” Weaver said. She and Clark were quick to recognize that the site closely resembled the earlier Facebook conservative knockoff The Tea Party Community, which looks quite a bit like Zuckerberg’s original brainchild.

Ken Crow, a proud Texan and co-founder of the Tea Party Community, told The Daily Beast that he was happy ReaganBook exists.

“I’m thrilled,” Crow said, having not explored the site yet. “Listen, if Warren Buffett or whoever –I just went blank—Mr. [Sheldon] Adelson put $100 million and said ‘Let’s do this. Let’s build the world’s largest social media platform for conservatives,’ I would be thrilled. Because our goal was to try to make a difference in America.”

Crow, who intersperses conversations with the affable label “my friend,” wants to change the face of American politics with conservative social media, as he is convinced corporate interests at Facebook promote liberal ideologies.

But ReaganBook is struggling to even begin an intelligent dialogue. “I think they’d attract more people and less trolls if they didn’t put that brand on it of Reagan. If they called it something else,” Clark said. Clark and Weaver suggested that the site’s branding is essentially offering itself up for people to do outlandish things (like creating fan pages devoted to the mammaries of the former President).

The decision by Porter to abandon Facebook seems predicated on the notion that its Silicon Valley staff is actively policing conservative content—something that Weaver and Clark quickly dismissed.

“I don’t think that there’s any kind of Facebook staff conspiracy at all,” Weaver said. “I think they all have a job to do and they’re doing it. And they’re dealing with literally over a billion people. I don’t think it’s a Facebook issue, I think it’s a Facebook audience issue.

”This is the very audience that led to their page getting shut down. The problem, as Weaver and Clark explained, is that this group drools at the opportunity to troll something like ReaganBook. And they seem to be prevailing as ReaganBook first entered “offline mode” by 3 p.m. Wednesday.

“I hate to sound pessimistic because I don’t know anything about the people that started this,” Weaver said prior to the site shutting down. “I don’t want to be ‘Captain Bringdown’ about it, but I would not join this page.”

The site administrators effectively pulled the plug on ReaganBook less than 24 hours after its launch.

“Thank you to all those who participated in the pre-release of ReaganBook.com,” a message credited to “Management” said on the site late Wednesday afternoon. “Your participation is helping us build a more secure site. Thank you! Please be patient while we make the necessary changes to keep the site free from obscenity, pornography, and those intent on the destruction of life, liberty, and the family. We will be opening the doors again soon with additional protections in place. As Reagan taught us, trust, but verify.”

Crow explained that his site put preventative measures in place to preclude trolls from reigning. He remained steadfast in his belief in the promise of the conservative social network.

“If someone is able to pull it off, it’ll be able to change politics in America,” he said.

© 2014 The Daily Beast Company LLC

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/31/reaganbook-is-the-latest-conservative-fail.html [with comments]

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