WOWza!….Quite a bit happening during “travel day”!!!: All of us who contribute here at RIGHT WING News will be sending in posts from the Conservative Political Action Conference, so you will have some great: “ears to the ground” to: know what is happening.: Here’s what: was being discussed: Wednesday: in and around the CPAC conference as the conservative bloggerazzi arrived……:
Bye Bye Congressman Lee — Nice abs, though
I have arrived in chilly Washington D.C.: without being: groped EVEN once at the airport this time. Oakland, CA airport was my departure point ( SFO is where I got the double-committee grope with multiple “swabbings” of my laptop for supposedly “explosive” material.) Directly in front of me, however, the TSA agent was having an especially contentious set-to with a black man about his printed-out boarding pass and his picture ID. Couldn’t hear anything, but the man was eventually let through. It was very very tense for awhile and I have to wonder, how DID the guy get through?
Final airline security note for the day: At Washington Dulles, a woman airline worker wearing a hijab was taking luggage off the carousel. It got my attention, shall we say? Sorry, having devout Muslims working in airports freaks me out and always will.:
BLOCKBUSTER!!! David Keene Resigns as head of CPAC:
Washington Times and a few others are carrying this story tonight…. American Conservative Union leader David Keene has stepped down. He will apparently still preside over the conference this weekend, but he has been replaced by the ACU board….just hours before CPAC is to begin.:
Frankly, I think it proper for Keene to leave, in fact, he can and should do so now. Besides the financial impropriety, the encroachment of Muslim activists in the board are also troubling.:
The Big Gay Party at CPAC hosted by Breitbart is getting raves from the gay “media mafiosi” at Gawker ( they’ve been breathlessly blogging it for weeks….) (it’s invitation only and no I wasn’t invited…) features the “omnisexual” singer Sophie B. Hawkins. Omni-sexual? That’s a new one for me and I am sure someone from GOProud will be writing to explain it…or not. This is one of those “big tent” things that I will need to get up to speed on, I suppose. I think it’s great Breitbart is doing the party for the gay conservatives who want to be involved at CPAC and noone else can bring it the way he can. Love him or hate him, and I adore him, Breitbart makes news. Andrew Breitbart will go down in history as a media pioneer. He is THAT dynamic.:
Sarah Palin was offered the keynote address, but isn’t coming again this year.:
If you recall, not that long ago, the fall of 2009, there was the viral video that made West a Republican folk hero.:
Here it is again.
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Every year, CPAC does a “straw poll” of attendees on a presidential candidate. Last year, Libertarian-Fed-buster Congressman Ron Paul won the poll (thanks to his energetic band of college student supporters who we think stuffed the ballot box.) WhatEVER. The mainstream media like to make a big deal out of the straw poll. It’s totally meaningless, a brief snapshot in time.:
Had a chance to chat with bloggress extraordinaire, Fausta Wertz when I got in. In addition to being a great conservative voice since 2004, Fausta speaks fluent Spanish and Portuguese. She writes often about the very scary South American political scene, what with Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad being such good buddies and all. She was full of great stories. Check her out if you haven’t read her before.:
Should be interesting what people say: Thursday about Keene’s departure.:
See my earlier coverage of CPAC 2011 with links to all the controversies leading up to this year’s meeting.: