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Another Perspective
The Liberal Media Lie About CPAC
But, of course, they lie about everything, don’t they?
NATIONAL HARBOR, Maryland — The liberal media covered the 40th Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) pretty much like they cover everything else — deceitfully, with a partisan bias that is transparent to every honest and intelligent person who actually pays attention. On any subject of potential political significance, there is a yawning chasm between (a) actual events and (b) the deliberately dishonest portrayal of those events by the hired liars whose biggest fraud is their ludicrous pretense to objectivity. If the New York Times could find a way to put a liberal spin on sports, they certainly would: “Louisville Gets Top NCAA Seed; Women, Minorities Hardest Hit.”
Take, for example, the young comedian Steven Crowder. While serving as emcee on the Potomac Ballroom stage Saturday at CPAC, Crowder made a joke about actress (and, it is rumored, future Kentucky Senate candidate) Ashley Judd: “This just in, Ashley Judd just tweeted that purchasing Apple products is akin to rape — from her iPhone.” Which is pretty doggone funny if you know that, as Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller reported, Judd has claimed that the purchasers of the iPhone and other Apple products are “financing mass rape” by using minerals mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Judd has a penchant for throwing around “rape” in her far-left political rants. She has compared coal-mining in Kentucky to rape and, also, to genocide in Rwanda. Judd’s long history of such outrageous comments has Republicans laughing mirthfully at the prospect of the actress challenging Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky next year. But according to liberal journalists — whose cheerleading for Democrats is now so unapologetically blatant that it is taken for granted — the real outrage is that any Republican would criticize Judd’s lunatic utterances.
This is apparently why the Huffington Post decided to lie about Crowder’s joke. “Steven Crowder, a Fox News contributor who hosted part of Saturday’s activities at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference, made a questionable remark about actress and possible Kentucky Senate candidate Ashley Judd,” a post at the site described it, omitting both the factual context and the first part of the joke, quoting only Crowder’s follow-on comment: “What is this obsession with Ashley Judd and rape? It’s pretty unnerving.”
By tagging Crowder as a “Fox News contributor,” the writer of the HuffPo item signaled to liberal readers that the young comic is a hate-object. Evidently, the unnamed writer – the cowardly HuffPo liar didn’t put a byline on this cheap smear-job – didn’t trust his readers to have enough sense to decide whether or not Crowder’s joke was “questionable.” And, of course, there was the clever ju-jitsu reversal: The story is not about whether Ashley Judd’s rhetoric was too over-the-top for a Senate candidate — Judd’s own remarks aren’t even quoted — but rather whether a comedian’s joke about Judd is “questionable.”
Speaking of questions: Is there any joke that anyone could make about any Democrat that the Huffington Post would not deem “questionable”? Of course not. The entire mission of Arianna Huffington’s organization, which she sold for more than $300 million to AOL a few years ago, is to help Democrats and harm Republicans. Yet HuffPo is considered a “mainstream” news operation, while Fox News is consistently demonized by the same allegedly objective journalists who view HuffPo as entirely legitimate and respectable. This attitude is not merely liberal bias, it is pervasive dishonesty, an attempt to achieve a political outcome while purposefully misreporting the facts. AOL paid big bucks to buy Arianna’s cheap smear machine, and the well-paid hacks at NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN share the same commitment to delivering partisan propaganda. Therefore, while no one can obtain from “mainstream journalism” an accurate knowledge of Ashley Judd’s bizarre and outlandish opinions, the world must be instantly notified if a comedian cracks a joke about her at CPAC.
Pretty much everything about CPAC is “questionable” from the liberal media perspective. The very idea that thousands of people who disagree with liberalism would gather in one place to share their opinions — well, how dare they? Also, how dare those sneaky conservatives refuse to be a homogenous bunch of boring old white males? This is what really drives liberal nuts: Dr. Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin, Allen West, Marco Rubio, Herman Cain, Mia Love — the CPAC stage featured plenty of people who aren’t quite the scapegoated right-wing stereotypes of liberal myth, and therefore they are the objects of particularly scornful media treatment. Popular conservative personalities who are either young, female, or not Caucasian are depicted in the media as kooky extremists or phony tokens for a movement which (as every HuffPo staffer knows) is a racist, sexist, homophobic plot by boring old rich fuddy-duddies.
Consider, for example, the winner of CPAC’s “Blogger of the Year” award, 24-year-old Katie Pavlich, author of a New York Times bestselling book about the “Fast and Furious” scandal, which the New York Times itself has desperately attempted to ignore. Rather than try to explain to their audiences how people who are supposed to be boring old fuddy-duddies manage instead to be brilliant young blondes, the liberal media just pretends that Katie Pavlich doesn’t exist. One imagines the producers and editors saying to one another, “Bestselling author? What bestselling author? I didn’t see any blonde girl up there on the stage. What are you talking about?”
This clever media trick of ignoring or endeavoring to discredit evidence that contradicts their liberal worldview completely warps the mainstream press coverage of CPAC every year. Liberal writers show up with their briefcases packed full of preconceptions and ready-made narrative templates. “Controversial Republican speaker provokes Republican controversy with controversial Republican remarks” is the standard format. Every trick of “gotcha” journalism is deployed in service of the media’s self-appointed mission to convey the idea that this yearly conference is a disreputable gathering of hate-filled fringe extremists. The difference between what actually happens at CPAC and what the liberal media reports is so vast that it seems the reporters were covering some entirely different event.
Having been the first journalist ever to describe CPAC accurately (“Mardi Gras for the Right,” Feb. 25, 2009), I understand that not even half the conference attendees are ever inside the main ballroom at any one time. There is serious business conducted at CPAC, and also a great deal of good, old-fashioned fun. Contrary to what the New York Times would have you believe, conservatives occasionally take time out from their usual business — hate, greed, and war — to laugh, sing, and dance. These occasions are regarded by liberal journalists as scandalous (“Controversy erupted at CPAC after it was learned that someone had two glasses of wine at dinner…”) and so there were no New York Times reporters at the seventh-floor suite where my Republican consultant friends John LaRosa and Brad Marston threw their “Unsustainable Bar Tab” party Friday night. Enough fun was had that hotel security finally shut it down, shortly after a multimillionaire campaign donor showed up at the invitation of a conservative mom from Texas.
Ah, those stereotypes! Boring old fuddy-duddies have all kinds of fun the liberal media never bother to report. And thank God for that.
Photo: UPI
About the Author
Robert Stacy McCain is co-author (with Lynn Vincent) of Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party (Nelson Current). He blogs at The Other McCain.
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Appleby| 3.18.13 @ 6:53AM
The only thing I know about Ashley Judd is that she has divorced her husband, alleged race driver Dario Franchitti (who drives in the IRL, which is the only racing series where the drivers know all their fans by name) -- apparently because she has finally realized nobody knows who he is.
TLP| 3.18.13 @ 9:58AM
She probably just figured out that he's NOT Mario Andretti.
And by: "Figured Out" - I mean that somebody must have told her.
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TLP| 3.18.13 @ 2:56PM
We don't need any Black Rubber Penises today, sweetheart.
But, thanks for asking.
Joellen| 3.18.13 @ 8:23AM
Mr. McCain - love your articles, but dont be surprised if NO ONE is surprised by your article this day.
Remember when MSLSD refuse to air any of the Americans who were black or hispanic during the Republican Convention?
It's good you report this, and this discrimination and lack of honest reporting must be reported over and over, but surprised, no I dont think so.
What is great is, my blue state, one of our main news print is moving to "smaller" quarters - a big democrat area like this - and yet still they are losing numbers.
See there is a GOD!
Al Adab| 3.18.13 @ 9:34AM
Conservatives should never be surprised when their activities are misrepresented in media reports. This has been a common and growing fact since at least 1964 when Goldwater suffered what, to that time, was the most biased, unethical reporting in U S history.
This is a double standard we should welcome. Holding ourselves to a higher standard and standing on principle is not something to be shunned but something which, like water on the podium, can become the trademark of the resurgent Conservative Movement.
TLP| 3.18.13 @ 10:41AM
You spelled "Abracadabra" wrong.
You always spell "Abracadabra" wrong.
Wassup wit dat?
Al Adab| 3.18.13 @ 12:52PM
Shazam.
TLP| 3.18.13 @ 2:32PM
I don't understand the premise of thie article.
Is he saying that Dogs chase Cats?
Cause that's what I'm hearing.
The Lame Stream, Main Stream, @ss Flucke Media is NEVER gonna agree with us, no matter what.
If we had a Cure for Cancer, they would attack is for being Too Cozy with Big Pharma.
George Bush gave More Aids Money to Africa than all of the Democrats put together, and what did he get for his efforts?
All of the Dems voted FOR the Iraq War. But it was Bush's War.
JFK got us into Vietnam, and LBJ expanded the War.
Nixon got us out, yet if you ask any Liberal, they will look you in the eye, and tell you that "Vietnam was NIXON'S WAR".
Everything was fine, in the Bush years, until the Democrats took over Both Houses of Congress. Yet, everything that went wrong with the Economy is BUSH'S Fault.
And now, even though The Halfrican enjoyed a Veto Proof Congress of his Liberal Goons for his first 2 Years, and, even now, controls the White House and the Senate, with the Republicans only running the House, EVERYTHING is the Republican's Fault.
Hello?
Al Adab| 3.18.13 @ 4:45PM
Alice through the looking glass. Our conversation on the Portman thread is about moral relativism. When truth becomes subjective we enter J R Ewings world where, "Once you give up integrity, all the rest is easy".
Anthony| 3.18.13 @ 8:44AM
Mr. McCain, The fact that leftists are morally and intellectual bankrupt, especially those in the MSM should not suprise you.
To cover CPAC honestly and fairly would expose their leftist constructs for the moral and intellectual bankruptcy that we see.
Ted Cruz took Diane Fienstein to the woodshed over her inane constitutional argument that banning certain firearms was constitutional. When Cruz, a real Harvard magna cum laude law grad, who has argued dozens of cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, asked her what books the 1st Amendment would allow to be banned under Feinstein's infantile analysis, she went bonkers, as did the whores in the media.
Feinstein's retort was that she was a senator for 20 years, had seen dead bodies in San. Fran., and had stuck her fingers in bullet holes. Chris Matthews and Andrea Mitchell had cows defending Feinstein.
It's no use attempting to reason with these people. It is futile and a total waste of time. These people need to be defeated before they finish their job of destroying America. PERIOD.
loulou| 3.18.13 @ 10:23AM
Ted Cruz is brilliant, effective AND fearless.
Vic| 3.18.13 @ 12:02PM
Seconded. With our man Rand
Al Adab| 3.18.13 @ 12:56PM
Cruz seems to be a man who speaks for principle and speaks "truth to power" over and above any political consideration. We need more of that. Courage will out.
Von Mises Jr| 3.18.13 @ 10:44AM
Cruz made a horse's ass of old Diane Frankenstein by simply asking her questions. If the Second Amendment only applies to certain people and certain guns, would it be alright with old Diane the totalitarian if the First Amendment of Free Speech and Freedom of Religion only apply to some and not others? How about the Fourth and Fifth Amendments? Can barry take some people's property and arrest some without charges based on the government's decision of whether you are entitled to those protections?
Like all socialist, DiFi Frankenstein wants to keep her guns and security, but not us. She wants to preach like a dictatorette, but we must shut the hell up. Screw DiFi. There is an opening for a dictator in Venezuela since the new guy is not the same caliber as Hugo and DiFi.
Jacob McCandles| 3.18.13 @ 11:52AM
Speaking of making a horse's ass out of a lib, I'm sure you've seen this from Senator Paul:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAn1FWInBi0
Von Mises Jr| 3.18.13 @ 2:03PM
Excellent video and the talk of energy efficient toilets illustrate how the left is full of ....,....
And MTB is spot on. They are toilet totalitarians. They are light bulb despots. They are toilet paper rationing tyrants. And they are full of …….
Butch| 3.18.13 @ 3:22PM
I loved his point toward the end: they don't even save water because you have to flush them several times. I replaced one with a "bootleg" older model my all-American plumber scrounges for his customers. I am on my honor not to reveal his identify, and I won't.
MTB| 3.18.13 @ 12:47PM
The answer to your/Cruz's questions is YES! The left would love to limit free speech to only leftist speech. They would love to change, delete, reconstruct any laws that do not give them sole and absolute power. If they had their way, only the left would be able to keep and bear arms, only the left would own property and businesses, only the left would control our infrastructure, including banks, and only the left would ever be in any positions of power or authority in our country. They are totalitarian despots. The only thing that matters to them is their party and power. The Constitution, freedom and liberty does not fit in with their or their party's ideology. First the 2nd Amendment, then the 1st, then any others that doesn't fit into their ideological framework.
Anthony| 3.18.13 @ 9:00AM
P.S. Ashley Judd is as hot as Sarah Palin, but thinks like Al Franken. The media will give her instant credibility over Sarah Palin, as they did with Franken, as will our trolls here at TAS.
More the pity, another lefty Hollywood loon.
Mike W| 3.18.13 @ 10:56AM
Judd hot?! Dont think so.
Vic| 3.18.13 @ 12:02PM
Sarah's definitely hotter
vtwin| 3.18.13 @ 2:11PM
Mr. W, are you blind or gay?
Al Adab| 3.18.13 @ 12:54PM
Judd would bring new meaning to transparency, remember the nude photo?
vtwin| 3.18.13 @ 2:09PM
Anthony, Sarah Palin is as hotter than Ashley Judd , but doesn't think.
Anthony| 3.18.13 @ 3:06PM
Can't you even put a simple sentence together without error, vtwin?
Sarah Palin is hotter than Ashley Judd and thinks rings around any leftist. You and troll Arnie are quite the pair of Palin haters.
Tell me moron, was Joe Biteme thinking when he asked the father of the fallen embassy employee at Benghazi, (who Obozo and Hillary left to die), " did your son always have balls the size of cue balls"?
Is this your idea of a world leader and intelligent Democrat? Why don't you watch Palin's CPAC speech, first, get your head out of your ass.
Suzyqpie| 3.18.13 @ 4:52PM
I will take this opportunity to share my favorite example of Democrat genius, "True engines of economic growth will always be companies like Solyndra," quote Pres Forsale 0bama.
Von Mises Jr| 3.18.13 @ 3:11PM
Anthony and Mike,
Twitvin is a good liberal who is very tolerant and caring. And its response is "are you blind or gay?"
So our mental midget (no offense to physically small people) insults the handicapped and homosexuals in five words. I think that there is a lesson somewhere in there?????
Bob K| 3.18.13 @ 9:03AM
Alex (Mongo) Karras reported in "Blazing Saddles Blog" that "Ashley Judd merely dope in game of politics!"
loulou| 3.18.13 @ 10:25AM
I wish CPAC did not have the Grover Norquist involvement or I would have been there.
McCain should have mentioned that Pam Geller was excluded because she exposed the jihadi infiltration of our country.
Jim Adcox| 3.18.13 @ 11:13AM
Feinstein was using the "What difference does it make?" attack to divert attention from her inanity and fecklessness on display for the past 20 years. More troubling was Durbin's claim that "none of the rights are absolute." Which illustrates Cruz's point even more clearly.
Derek Leaberry| 3.18.13 @ 11:42AM
There's no way "boring old fuddy, duddies" have time to attend something like CPAC. They're too busy working, producing things, earning their livings, making mortgage payments, feeding their families and raising children. The sort of people who attend CPAC are those with few responsibilities mixed with a coterie of conservative flim-flam men like Grover Norquist and David Keene. Paulite libertarians especially like to attend events like CSPAN because the horizons of their lives seem to be limited to political posturing. What kind of conservative would really take off a week to vacation in Washington DC in late winter anyway?
Nan231| 3.18.13 @ 11:44AM
This is just part of the left's continual lie that Republicans are right wing extremist. They just keep pushing the party to right in order to distract attention from their extremely left positions. In their mind anyone to the right of left is a right wing extremist.
Anthony| 3.18.13 @ 2:54PM
True Nan. The left have been engaged in a deliberate attempt at making extinct conservativism. Their allies in the media constantly put all Rs on the defense by portraying any right of center position, radical right-wing.
This is the left's final attempt at wiping all conservative opposition off the face of the nation. Rs who go along with this "eat me last" hope of making nice with the left will be devoured nonetheless.
The left need to be slapped upside the head, or else, it will be our heads on the chopping block.
Bob Grant| 3.18.13 @ 12:50PM
In all fairness, Mr. Crowder was indroduced at CPAC as a "Fox News contributor".
I'm all for calling out the left on factual innacuracies (lies!) but in doing so, how about we stick with the facts.