Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), once of the Members of Congress currently under self-quarantine after encountering a CPAC attendee infected with coronavirus, set off a firestorm on social media late Sunday night, after referring to &#8220;coronavirus&#8221; by an earlier name for the disease, &#8220;Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
Reporters from MSNBC and representatives of various social justice organizations &#8212; dedicated leftists all &#8212; immediately jumped on Gosar, claiming that the term &#8220;Wuhan Virus&#8221; is &#8220;racist&#8221; and evidence of Gosar&#8217;s &#8220;anti-Asian bias.&#8221;
&#8220;I am announcing that I, along with 3 of my senior staff, are officially under self-quarantine after sustained contact at CPAC with a person who has since been hospitalized with the Wuhan Virus. My office will be closed for the week,&#8221; Gosar posted on Twitter Sunday.
Moments later, MSNBC&#8217;s Chris Hayes snapped back at the Congressman: &#8220;Just astoundingly gross to call it the Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
Hayes didn&#8217;t elaborate on why calling coronavirus &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; was &#8220;astoundingly gross,&#8221; but one of his colleagues at MSNBC, David Gura, quickly filled in the blanks.
&#8220;FYI,&#8221; Gura tweeted. &#8220;Calling <a class="PrettyLink hashtag customisable" dir="ltr" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID19?src=hash" rel="tag" data-query-source="hashtag_click" data-scribe="element:hashtag">#COVID19</a> the &#8216;Wuhan Virus&#8217; is racist.&#8221;
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) also got in on the action, tweeting that &#8220;Wuhan Virus&#8221; is &#8220;an example of the myopia that allowed it to spread&#8221; and that Gosar was actively contributing to misinformation about the disease.
The leftist organization Sleeping Giants even made fun of Gosar for potentially falling victim to the disease: &#8220;Hope you’re okay, but perhaps while you’re quarantined, you will realize how astoundingly xenophobic it is to call it the Wuhan Virus.&#8221;
&#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; is, of course, a reference to the city where the global outbreak finds its source and where most of the infected remain: Wuhan, China. Ahead of the virus making headlines in the United States, it appears many Chinese and Asian-based news organizations once referred to the virus by a similar name, &#8220;Wuhan pneumonia.&#8221;
There are a handful of instances where American news outlets have used &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; to refer to the coronavirus. Most of those came back in January and early February, when the disease was new to American media. <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/09/asia/wuhan-citizen-journalist-intl-hnk/index.html">CNN referred to</a> &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; in January, and <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-we-know-about-the-wuhan-virus-11579716128">The Wall Street Journal,</a> which has since changed its headline, appears to have referred to coronavirus as &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; around the same time. The original title for the WSJ piece appears in the site&#8217;s URL.
In early February, when coronavirus began to take root in the United States, organizations and news outlets started to refer to the disease as &#8220;coronavirus&#8221; or, more specifically (and accurately) as COVID-19. The Asian American Journalists Association also submitted guidelines for reporting on coronavirus to most major news organizations at that time, cautioning against the use of the term &#8220;Wuhan virus,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/rep-paul-gosar-s-use-wuhan-virus-sparks-anger-debate-n1153021">according to NBC News</a>.
Gosar defended himself against allegations of racism, noting that he&#8217;d simply referred to the disease by its city of origin. It&#8217;s &#8220;just astoundingly ignorant to have all major media refer to it as #WuhanVirus for months but somehow, today, you’ve decided that’s #racist,&#8221; he tweeted in a follow up to his original note.
&#8220;Ignore the snowflake Leftists who think everything is racist. It&#8217;s a virus. It doesn&#8217;t care about your race,&#8221; he added.
Plenty of Twitter users rushed to Gosar&#8217;s defense, too.
&#8220;The virus that&#8217;ll kill us all is stupidity,&#8221; tweeted Neontaster.

Paul Gosar

Leftists Erupt Over Use Of The Term ‘Wuhan Virus,’ Claim Disease Name Is ‘Racist,’ Exposes ‘Anti-Asian Bias’

Coronavirus

CPAC

Racism

The American Conservative Union (ACU), which hosts the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C., confirmed on Saturday that one of this year&#8217;s attendees has tested positive for coronavirus.
&#8220;The exposure occurred previous to the conference,&#8221; the ACU said in an email to attendees and participants. The attendee was tested in New Jersey and the positive diagnosis was confirmed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the ACU said.
Both President Trump and Vice President Pence attended this year&#8217;s event.
But the ACU said &#8220;this attendee had no contact with the President or the Vice President and never attends the events in the main hall,&#8221; where both spoke.
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Important Health Notification for CPAC 2020 participants and attendees. <a href="https://t.co/NtahNO8st3">pic.twitter.com/NtahNO8st3</a>
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The ACU sought to allay concerns on Saturday.
&#8220;ACU has been in contact with the Health Department of the State of Maryland, and we will explicitly follow the guidance from government health experts,&#8221; the email read.
&#8220;The health and safety of our attendees and participants is our top priority. Any attendee who has questions can contact ACU or the Department of Health for the State of Maryland.&#8221;
CPAC was held Feb. 26-29 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Fort Washington, Md., just outside Washington, D.C.
&#8220;Our children, spouses, extended family, and friends attended CPAC. During this time, we need to remain calm, listen to our health care professionals and support each other. We send this message in that spirit,&#8221; the ACU said.
The CPAC news came after reports that two people who attended another Washington, D.C. conference – where Vice President Mike Pence delivered a speech – have tested positive for coronavirus.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) announced that two people from New York who attended the conference this week have confirmed cases of the contagious disease.
“We have confirmed that at least two Policy Conference attendees from New York have tested positive for the Coronavirus,” AIPAC told conference attendees and participants in an email on Friday.
“We have continued to remain in constant communication with the Westchester County Health Department and the DC Health Department which is coordinating with the New York Health Department, and national health authorities,” the email said, according to <a href="https://www.bizpacreview.com/2020/03/07/virus-hits-dc-two-aipac-conference-attendees-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-894800">Biz Pac Review</a>.
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More than 18,000 people, along with many congressional lawmakers, attend the conference each year, its website says. This year, Vice President Pence, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), as well as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) attended. Also on hand were former 2020 Democratic candidates Mike Bloomberg and Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ).
Pence, who has been tapped by President Donald Trump to head up the administration&#8217;s response to the virus, said during a Friday briefing that he hadn&#8217;t heard that people at the conference had tested positive.
“That’s the first I’ve heard of it, in the midst of a busy day,” Pence said.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also said during the press conference that he had not heard the news.
“If you have someone who was here, the risk of there being a major outbreak obviously, which everybody thinks about, but what will happen is that those individuals that were infected will have contact tracing and that’s the ‘public health weapon,’ if you want to call it, that we have,&#8221; he said.
The D.C. Department of Health said in a statement Friday that “there is no identified risk to conference attendees at this time.&#8221;

Key Speakers At The Conservative Political Action Conference

CPAC Confirms Attendee At Conservative Conference Where Trump Spoke Has Coronavirus

Donald Trump

Mike Pence

At the largest conservative gathering of the year, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) topped a poll asking who is the most dangerous possible opponent for President Trump in November.
On the Conservative Political Action Conference&#8217;s final day, CPAC and The Washington Times conducted a poll of the active conservatives in attendance. A little more than a third of those who filled out surveys said they&#8217;re most worried about Sanders, a Democratic socialist who is pushing free everything for everybody. Billionaire former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg was the second most feared opponent at 23%. Former Vice President Joe Biden came in a distant third at 9%.
Nearly a fifth (19%) said they&#8217;re not afraid of any of the candidates. The poll was completed by 1,336 activists at CPAC, held just outside of Washington, D.C.
Biden won big among Democrats on Saturday, taking 48% of the vote in South Carolina&#8217;s primary. Sanders lagged well behind in second, pulling in just 19.9%. Billionaire Tom Steyer came in third with 11.3%, then promptly dropped out. Former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg came in fourth at 8.4%, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), once a front runner for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, finished fifth at just 7.1%.
Biden&#8217;s win keeps his campaign afloat after dismal performances in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
“We are very much alive,” Biden declared at a post-election rally. “For all of you who have been knocked down, counted out, left behind &#8212; this is your campaign.”
The race now expands exponentially for Super Tuesday on March 3, when 14 states will hold primaries. About a third of the delegates available in the nomination race will be up for grabs. But in an interesting twist, the odds that no candidate gathers the needed number of delegates by the Democratic National Convention rose to 3 in 5, and now tops the nomination forecast from <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo">FiveThirtyEight</a><a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-primary-forecast/?ex_cid=rrpromo">.com</a>.
In that forecast, Sanders has a 3 in 10 chance, Biden a 1 in 9 chance, and all the rest are less than 1 in 100 long shots.
For the first time in a Democratic nomination process, a substantial number of pledged delegates will be at stake — 1,357 of them. But because the delegates will be allocated in proportion to each candidate’s share of the vote, the odds that no candidate wins a majority is rising, and that means a nominee will be selected during the Democratic National Committee convention in July.
The CPAC poll found some other interesting tidbits, The <a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/29/cpacwashington-times-poll-sanders-is-most-dangerou/">Washington </a><a href="https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/29/cpacwashington-times-poll-sanders-is-most-dangerou/">Times</a> reported.
<blockquote>Activists ranked solving immigration and building the border wall as their top priority, followed by protecting constitutional rights and tackling spending.
When asked which immigration policy is most important, a staggering 68% said building the wall and securing the border. Arresting illegal immigrants trailed far behind in second place at just 17%, and just 11% said expanding legal immigration was key. Another 3% said the priority should be to legalize illegal immigrant “Dreamers.”
But the activists say immigration is only the second biggest threat to America’s safety. The top spot went to the rising economic power of China.
The poll asked activists what constitutional amendment they would like to see added. A balanced budget was the clear winner at 45%, followed by overturning the Roe v. Wade decision that established a national right to abortion, which garnered 32% support.</blockquote>
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BernieSanders

CPAC POLL: Sanders Most Dangerous Opponent For Trump

2020 Election

Bernie Sanders

Michigan Republican Senate candidate John James dazzled a packed audience at CPAC in Washington, D.C., on Saturday as he told his story of how the American dream enabled his family to go from being slaves to him running for U.S. Senate.
&#8220;We must show them an America where the son of a slave can become a sharecropper, the son of a sharecropper can become a mason, the son of a mason can become a truck driver, and the son of that truck driver can stand before you here today on the brink of becoming Michigan’s first black U.S. Senator,&#8221; James said toward the end of his speech.
The crowd immediately started cheering &#8220;USA! USA! USA!&#8221;
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In America, the son of a slave ⬆️can become a Sharecropper. the son of a Sharecropper ⬆️can become a Mason. the son of a Mason ⬆️can become a Truck Driver.
And a son of that Truck Driver can stand today on the brink of becoming Michigan&#39;s first black U.S. Senator. 🇺🇸 <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CPAC2020</a> <a href="https://t.co/QHYlUxDFUC">pic.twitter.com/QHYlUxDFUC</a>
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Transcript of Michigan Republican Senate candidate John James&#8217; speech at CPAC:
<blockquote>My name is John James and I’d like to begin by telling you a story. This story is about a little boy who was born in Starkville, Mississippi in 1941. He lived directly across the street from Mississippi State University, born in 1941, but he couldn’t go there because he is black. Despite growing up in the worst economic inequality and institutional racism that the country has ever known, he refused to allow his vulnerability to become victimhood. He never allowed dependency to become his destiny. He paid his way through college. He served honorably in Vietnam. He moved to Detroit and in 1971 started a trucking company with one truck, one trailer and no excuses – hauling beer back and forth between Detroit and Milwaukee. For the better part of the next decade, he fought government regulation, all the way to the Supreme Court, for the right to compete. He worked. He evolved, until he was able to provide a life for his family that was previously unimaginable. He grew an idea into a $35 million dollar company automotive supplier before a “change of management” in 2012.
That little boy is my father. My father, like so many others who&#8217;ve immigrated from all over the world and from the Jim Crow south for better opportunities never asked for free stuff, they only asked for a fair shot.
I am not standing here on this stage because of socialism. I am standing here because free enterprise and free will and because self-determination works.
When I was a little boy, I was taught to use my blessings to be a blessing to others. To take something good and make it greater. I started by leaving home in Detroit and attending West Point, becoming a ranger qualified Apache pilot and flying 750 combat hours in operation Iraqi freedom. I returned home from the war to an auto industry in turmoil, a city in bankruptcy and helped to grow that $35 million in revenue family business into a $137 million company, in under five years. I got married, earned a couple masters degrees, and made a few little boys &#8211; John is 6, Hudson is about to turn 5 and Christian just turned 1.
When I look at my three sons, I am reminded every day that we live in the greatest country on the planet and, like America, our stories didn’t begin with us.
I am the walking result of the American dream and I believe that the American dream is worth fighting for. I believe the American dream is worth sacrificing for. A few of my classmates gave their lives for it. We, all of us, must be willing to continue their fight, so that all people have an opportunity, a chance at the American Dream. It’s what makes America so exceptional.
150 years ago, Lincoln warned us: “America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, if we lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
A century later, Reagan warned us: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. Freedom is not something we pass onto our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
Tonight, in South Carolina, there will be a primary where some Democrat candidates who have been talking about how to con a generation into embracing socialism.
In 2020, we must remember that Lincoln didn’t fight the civil war to beat the South. He, and his party, the Republican Party, stood up to end the physical bondage of black people and to keep this country together. This election is not about beating Bernie. This election is about freeing those in socio-economic bondage in our cities and winning back a generation that is turning to socialism on our campuses.
Listen closely, listen very closely, because I want to be clear, crystal clear… do not underestimate the appeal of socialism for those whom the status quo has failed. For the American Dream to prevail, for us to defeat socialism, for us to save a generation: we can&#8217;t just say that socialism sucks and assume that people will follow us. Stuck Americans don’t want socialism, they just want the pain to stop but it’s up to us to offer a remedy that works:
We must show them an America where a child’s outcome isn’t determined by the zip code they’re born in. Where a good education is attainable and hard work truly does get you ahead.
We must show them an America that protects our communities from tyrants without leaving our children vulnerable to terrorists.
We must show them an America where a woman, has better choices than life or death. Where an accident or an illness doesn’t leave a family in financial ruin.
We must show them an America where the son of a slave can become a sharecropper, the son of a sharecropper can become a mason, the son of a mason can become a truck driver and the son of that truck driver can stand before you here today on the brink of becoming Michigan’s first black U.S. Senator.
You show me where in the world you can go from slave to senator in four generations and from poverty to prosperity in one and I’ll show you the United States of America. I’ll show you the American Dream!
We must counter the socialist movement of envy and confiscation with a conservative movement of access and opportunity. We must show this generation that free will and free enterprise benefits each of us without sacrificing compassion and conscientiousness for all of us. We must become disciples of the American Dream and share the good news, unafraid, with those who are being seduced by lies. That’s how we win. That’s how America wins.
Lincoln showed us how to stand up to oppression and hold a nation together by sheer force of will. Reagan showed us how to defeat Marxist ideology without firing a shot. President Trump dares us to be great while continuing to tear down barriers and increase access to the American Dream for the forgotten, in every corner of this Nation.
But he’s not done and America’s most definitely not done. We have a long way to go and the President needs you. I need you. Most importantly… a generation on the verge of socialism needs you.
The hour is at hand, ladies and gentleman and fellow patriots. And by the grace of God and your hard work, freedom will not end with us, the American Dream will not end with us… We’re just getting started.
Thank you.</blockquote>
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GOP Senate Candidate John James Holds Election Night Event In Detroit

WATCH: Crowd Chants ‘USA!’ At CPAC As Republican John James Documents Journey From Slavery Descendant To Senate Candidate

John James

Slavery

At a massive gathering of conservatives at an annual summit outside Washington, D.C., on Saturday, President Trump swooped in and dished out some read meat, blasting Democrats who have &#8220;pursued a relentless crusade to overturn the results of the 2016 election.&#8221;
In a stem-winder of a speech, Trump fired up the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference&#8217;s final day, ripping Democrats as a &#8220;hate-filled left-wing mob.&#8221;
&#8220;From the moment I took the oath of office, the Left has pursued a relentless crusade to overturn the results of the 2016 election and sabotage our next election. You know that. It was all a big hoax. You know that,&#8221; Trump said.
But Trump said the tables are now turned. &#8220;They&#8217;re coming after me and we fight &#8217;em back – and now we&#8217;re coming after them!&#8221; he said, drawing raucous cheers and chants of &#8220;USA!&#8221;
Democrats, Trump said, want to turn American into a &#8220;large-scale Venezuela.&#8221;
&#8220;They want to take away your money, take away your choice, take away your speech, guns, take away your religion, take away your history, future, and take away ultimately your freedom. But we will never let them do that,&#8221; he said to more cheers.
Trump also touted his efforts to secure U.S. borders, tying that to terrorism. &#8220;All of the 9/11 hijackers came here on visas and we are determined to keep radical Islamic terrorists the hell out of our country. And we&#8217;re keeping them out.&#8221;
Following his impeachment in the House and the Russia probe that turned up nothing, Trump praised Republicans for sticking together throughout the endless battles.
&#8220;Except Romney,&#8221; Trump said, drawing laughter and boos for Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), the only Republican in the Senate who voted with Democrats on an article of impeachment. “He got some good publicity,” Trump said. “He’s a low life.”
But Trump saved his best attacks for Democrats, including Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), former Vice President Joe Biden, and especially former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg.
“They got some beauties – crazy Bernie, Sleepy Joe, we got mini Mike, but I think he’s out of it. Mini Mike – I know him very well,” Trump said. “I knew that was going to happen – that was probably the worst debate performance of any presidential debate.”
“Boy, did Pocahontas destroy him,” Trump said. “And look what I did to her. She went out and got a test. Remember when I said I have more Indian blood in me than she does, and I have none. Would love to have some, but I have none. &#8230; She was really mean to mini Mike, I’ll tell you, the way she treated him,” he said.
Trump said Bloomberg was thinking, &#8220;Oh, get me off the stage.&#8221;
Then Trump ducked down behind the podium on the stage at CPAC, his head just peeking over the top, pretending to be Bloomberg, who stands just 5-foot-8, compared to Trump&#8217;s 6-foot-3 stature.
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Trump just REKT Bloomberg by slowly shrinking to his height until he disappeared behind the podium.
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The president also mocked Bloomberg for the amount of money the billionaire has sunk into his campaign. “I would like to spend $700 million and end up with nothing,” Trump said. “It just shows you that you can’t buy an election &#8230; you got to bring the goods.”
Trump also slapped Biden, who he said couldn’t be “easier to beat.”
&#8220;The guy’s not going to be running the government. He’s going to be in a home someplace,&#8221; Trump said to laughter and applause.

Conservatives Gather At Annual CPAC Event

Trump Goes Nuclear On Democrats At CPAC: ‘Now We’re Coming After Them’

Elizabeth Warren

Joe Biden

Michael Bloomberg

Moments after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-romney-confirms-yes-vote-on-witnesses-issues-statement-on-what-decided-it">voting</a> with Democrats to call for additional witnesses in the impeachment trial, Republican Sen. Mitt Romney (UT) found himself disinvited from this year&#8217;s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) by the event&#8217;s organizer. The president of the group has since said in a follow-up explanation about the decision that the senator was disinvited in part out of concern for his &#8220;physical safety&#8221; at the event.
Romney was the lone Republican to vote guilty on either of the Democrats&#8217; two articles of impeachment against President Trump — in fact, he was the only senator from either party to break ranks at all during the two votes. Ahead of his &#8220;guilty&#8221; vote, which he described as an act of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-heres-the-note-romney-gave-to-every-republican-explaining-why-he-was-going-to-vote-guilty-with-democrats">an act of conviction</a>,&#8221; Romney joined with fellow moderate Republican Sen. Susan Collins (ME) to join Senate Democrats in voting for more witnesses and documents in the trial.
The vote sparked instant blowback from American Conservative Union president Matt Schlapp, who tweeted in response: &#8220;The &#8216;extreme conservative&#8217; and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, [Sen. Romney], is formally NOT invited to [CPAC 2020].&#8221;
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BREAKING: The &quot;extreme conservative&quot; and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorRomney</a> is formally NOT invited to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CPAC2020</a>. <a href="https://t.co/f35tYy73V1">pic.twitter.com/f35tYy73V1</a>
&mdash; Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1223379382003294208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In its initial report on the CPAC disinvite, <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/01/cpac-uninvites-mitt-romney-after-his-impeachment-witness-vote/">The New York Post</a> noted that Romney &#8220;used CPAC as a platform to woo the party’s base as he sought the Republican nomination in 2012, where he labeled himself a &#8216;severely conservative governor.'&#8221;
&#8220;On my watch, we fought hard and prevented Massachusetts from becoming the Las Vegas of gay marriage,&#8221; Romney <a href="https://nypost.com/2012/02/11/the-mitts-are-off/">told</a> the CPAC audience in 2012. &#8220;I fought against long odds in a deep-blue state, but I was a severely conservative governor.&#8221;
In an update on the CPAC disinvite story, the <a href="https://nypost.com/2020/02/10/cpac-chair-says-romney-was-uninvited-because-physical-safety-would-be-at-risk/">Post</a> noted that Schlapp recently elaborated on the decision, citing fear for Romney&#8217;s &#8220;physical safety&#8221; as a reason he is not invited to attend the event at the end of February.
&#8220;This year, I’d actually be afraid for his physical safety, people are so mad at him,&#8221; Schlapp told former Fox News host Greta Van Susteren on her show &#8220;<a href="https://www.fullcourtgreta.com/video/2020/02/09/cpac-chairman-explains-why-mitt-romeny-is-not-invited-cpac-conference/">Full Court Press</a>&#8221; on Saturday.
&#8220;The biggest problem we have with Mitt Romney is not that he’s just an individual following his political course,&#8221; Schlapp added. &#8220;It’s the fact that he’s lied so continuously to conservatives.&#8221;
&#8220;When he needed a conservative like Donald Trump to endorse him in his Senate primary last time, he wanted him in,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;But then, when he gets the Senate job, he wants to distance himself from Trump. He’s a use-’em-and-lose-’em kind of guy.&#8221;
Many on the right, including some of his Republican colleagues, have slammed Romney for his decision to side with the Democrats, including on their first article of impeachment, &#8220;abuse of power,&#8221; which ultimately failed 48-52 (Romney voted to &#8220;not guilty&#8221; on the second article, &#8220;obstruction of Congress,&#8221; which failed 47-53). But the frequent Trump-critic says that he was simply doing his duty as an &#8220;impartial&#8221; juror and voting his conscience.
&#8220;As a Senator-juror, I swore an oath, before God, to exercise ‘impartial justice,'&#8221; Romney said in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-heres-the-note-romney-gave-to-every-republican-explaining-why-he-was-going-to-vote-guilty-with-democrats">statement</a> ahead of his vote. “I am a profoundly religious person. I take an oath before God as enormously consequential. I knew from the outset that being tasked with judging the President, the leader of my own party, would be the most difficult decision I have ever faced. I was not wrong.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-heres-the-note-romney-gave-to-every-republican-explaining-why-he-was-going-to-vote-guilty-with-democrats">READ IT: Here’s The Note Romney Gave To Every Republican Ahead Of The Impeachment Vote</a>

Mitt Romney

Romney Uninvited To CPAC For Fear Of His ‘Physical Safety’

Impeachment

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), whom conservatives have long complained is not one of them, joined with Democrats on Friday in a crucial Senate vote during President Trump&#8217;s impeachment trial.
As Democrats pushed to call more witnesses, Romney announced he would join their effort, saying he wanted to hear from former National Security Adviser John Bolton. Just one other Republican, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, voted with all Democrats on the measure, which failed 51-49.
Republicans were furious that Romney broke ranks, and now one conservative group is seeking to punish the Utah senator for his transgression.
The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) says Romney won&#8217;t be welcome at their Washington, D.C., conference in February.
&#8220;The &#8216;extreme conservative&#8217; and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, @SenatorRomney is formally NOT invited to #CPAC2020,&#8221; tweeted Matt Schlapp, who leads the organization behind CPAC.
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BREAKING: The &quot;extreme conservative&quot; and Junior Senator from the great state of Utah, <a href="https://twitter.com/SenatorRomney?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenatorRomney</a> is formally NOT invited to <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC2020?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CPAC2020</a>. <a href="https://t.co/f35tYy73V1">pic.twitter.com/f35tYy73V1</a>
&mdash; Matt Schlapp (@mschlapp) <a href="https://twitter.com/mschlapp/status/1223379382003294208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 31, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Schlapp told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/cpac-mitt-romney-not-invited">Fox News</a> that each year, CPAC &#8220;formally disinvite[s] someone who has been particularly egregious.&#8221; Romney, however, was not technically &#8220;disinvited,&#8221; as an invite was never formally extended.
&#8220;Mitt Romney deserved this [because] his Senate tenure is a waste and his vote was the latest outrage,&#8221; he added.
Trump and Romney have battled in the past before apparently burying the hatchet. Still, Romney loves the spotlight, and before the crucial vote in the Senate on witnesses, Romney blasted the president&#8217;s &#8220;brazen&#8221; requests for foreign nations to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter, who was employed by a corrupt energy company in Ukraine. &#8220;By all appearances, the President’s brazen and unprecedented appeal to China and to Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden is wrong and appalling,&#8221; he said.
CPAC holds one of the largest conservative summits in the nation each year, and Trump has spoken at the conference the last three years. This year&#8217;s event starts Feb. 26 at the Gaylord National Resort &amp; Convention Center, and Republican California Rep. Devin Nunes, conservative commentator Mark Levin, and Brexit leader Nigel Farage, among others, are scheduled to speak.
Romney&#8217;s decision to vote with Democrats drew harsh criticism from former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, who had served as Romney&#8217;s top adviser during his failed 2012 run for the White House.
“It’s disappointing because I think Mitt Romney is clearly letting his personal dislike of the president influence him more than trying to deal with [what] this country needs,” Sununu told Fox News&#8217; &#8220;America&#8217;s Newsroom.&#8221;
Before Friday&#8217;s failed vote on witnesses, Romney said he thought the move woulds garner Republican support.
&#8220;I think, with the story [about Bolton&#8217;s book] that came out yesterday, it&#8217;s increasingly apparent that it would be important to hear from John Bolton,&#8221; Romney told reporters.
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s increasingly likely that other Republicans will join those of us who think we should hear from John Bolton,&#8221; Romney said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken with others who&#8217;ve opined upon this, as well.&#8221;
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said after the vote that calling more witnesses would have been unprecedented.
“There is no need for the Senate to reopen the investigation which the House Democratic majority chose to conclude and which the [House] managers themselves continue to describe as &#8216;overwhelming&#8217; and &#8216;beyond any doubt,&#8217;” McConnell said in a statement. “Never in Senate history has this body paused an impeachment trial to pursue additional witnesses with unresolved questions of executive privilege that would require protracted litigation. We have no interest in establishing such a new precedent, particularly for individuals whom the House expressly chose not to pursue.”

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Romney Not Welcome At Our Annual Conservative Summit After Impeachment Trial Vote, CPAC Says

At CPAC Thursday, left-wing CNN analyst Van Jones reluctantly offered praise to conservatives for leading the way on criminal justice reform.
According to <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/van-jones-conservatives-are-leaders-on-criminal-justice-reform/">National Review</a>, the CNN analyst appeared alongside CPAC chairman Matt Schlapp and touted the bi-partisan criminal justice reform package that President Trump signed into law this past December. The bill, which essentially loosened some of the criteria for inmates to participate in early release programs, has been generally backed by libertarians and many on the right. Here&#8217;s what Michelle Malkin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/38663/malkin-first-step-pro-cop-pro-borders-pro-criminal-michelle-malkin">said of the bill</a> at the time of its passage:
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The package of criminal justice reform proposals endorsed by President Donald Trump is not &#8220;soft&#8221; on crime. It&#8217;s tough on injustice. And it&#8217;s about time.
Known as the &#8220;First Step Act,&#8221; the legislation confronts the Titanic failure of the federal government&#8217;s trillion-dollar war on drugs by reforming mandatory minimum sentences, rectifying unscientifically grounded disparities in criminal penalties for crack vs. powder cocaine users, and tackling recidivism among federal inmates through risk assessment, earned-time credit incentive structures, re-entry programs and transitional housing.
There&#8217;s nothing radical about giving law-breakers who served their time an opportunity to turn their lives around and avoid ending up back behind bars. More than 30 red and blue states have enacted measures to reduce incarceration, control costs and improve public safety. Texas &#8212; no bleeding-heart liberal mecca &#8212; spearheaded alternatives to the endless prison-building boom a decade ago by redirecting tax dollars to rehab, treatment and mental health services. The Lone Star state saved an estimated $3 billion in new public construction costs while stemming the prison population tide.
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Jones not only praised conservatives for passing the bill but actually pointed out that conservatives in deep red states have enacted impactful criminal justice reform.
&#8220;The conservative movement in this country, unfortunately from my point of view, is now the leader on this issue of reform,&#8221; Jones said. &#8220;You look at Mississippi, a rock-ribbed, total conservative former jailer is now the governor. Governor Bryan cut the prison population and crime at the same time. [Governor Nathan] Deal in Georgia cut the prison population and crime at the same time. &#8230; What you&#8217;re seeing now is Republican governors being tough on the dollars. Tough on crime and shrinking the prison population.&#8221;
&#8220;You are stealing my issue,&#8221; he begrudgingly admitted. &#8220;Take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.&#8221;
Van Jones also called for some bi-partisanship, saying the country needs its right-wing as well as its left-wing in order to function.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen a bird fly with only one wing,&#8221; Jones said, according to <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-van-jones-to-cpac-crowd-conservative-movement-is-now-the-leader-on-criminal-justice-reform/">Mediaite</a>. &#8220;We need each other.&#8221;
Not everything Jones said went over well with the conservative audience, however. He even drew some boos when he said, &#8220;undocumented immigrants right now have a lower crime rate than the rest of us.&#8221;
Jones worked closely with White House aide Jared Kushner and the Trump administration to get the First Step Act passed through Congress.
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Left-wing CNN analyst Van Jones: &#8220;Here&#8217;s the deal: the conservative movement in this country&#8230;is now the leader on this issue of [criminal justice] reform&#8221;
&#8220;Take some dadgum credit for being smart. Take some dadgum credit for getting it right.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/bOCQbfRt25">pic.twitter.com/bOCQbfRt25</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1101221662777700352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2019</a></blockquote>
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CNN’s Van Jones: Conservatives Are Leaders On Criminal Justice Reform

Crime

Van Jones

On Saturday, during a panel discussion on the right to life and human dignity at CPAC, Allie Beth Stuckey, known to many as &#8220;the Conservative Millennial,&#8221; spoke about the way in which abortion advocates arbitrarily define the moment at which a human being is worthy of &#8220;life.&#8221;
First, Stuckey talked about how much society&#8217;s attitude has changed regarding abortion:
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Let me just kind of give some perspective of where I think we are, and why it&#8217;s so important &#8212; not just for millennials like myself, but for everyone to care about this subject.
So, first track with me for a second because it&#8217;s going to seem like I&#8217;m not talking about abortion, but I am. I just saw the second &#8220;Godfather&#8221; for the first time this past week, and there&#8217;s this conversation that two main characters are having &#8212; Kay and Michael &#8212; and Kay compares her marriage to an abortion; she calls it &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;unholy.&#8221; And that just struck me because how far have we come in 45 years, not just since the movie was made, but since Roe vs. Wade, from calling an abortion &#8220;evil&#8221; and &#8220;unholy&#8221; to calling it &#8220;reproductive freedom&#8221;? To calling it &#8220;women&#8217;s rights&#8221;? To calling it &#8220;privacy&#8221;?
But what you and I know is that no amount of political correctness, no amount of manipulation can hide the fact that just one abortion provider is murdering over 1,000 children every single day in this country.
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She then compared the abortion lobby&#8217;s arbitrary definition of when &#8220;life&#8221; begins to genocides throughout history:
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The principle of abortion is literally why we look in disgust at Hitler&#8217;s Germany, for example. It&#8217;s the same exact principle of having a subjective standard of human worthiness, and exterminating anyone who doesn&#8217;t meet that standard. That has literally been the mark of every dictatorial and depraved regime and nation since the beginning of time. We look back at history in shame on those crimes against humanity, but why, today, do we not look in shame at where we are right now in 2018 in the United States of America &#8212; not just allowing it, but normalizing it, glorifying it, and calling it &#8220;choice&#8221;? And if you think that our absolute apathy and disregard for human dignity stops with life inside the womb, unfortunately you are wrong.
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Stuckey spoke about Peter Singer, a bioethicist and philosopher who teaches at Princeton, whose definition of &#8220;life&#8221; allows for the termination of those both inside and outside the womb:
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His argument for the moral acceptance of abortion is that the baby inside the womb &#8212; he acknowledges that it is scientifically a human being &#8212; but it does not meet the standard of personhood, and that is: rationality, autonomy, and the ability to be self-conscious. So, he says because of that, because they don&#8217;t meet the standard of that personhood, then life inside the womb doesn&#8217;t really have any rights. But, and here&#8217;s where the honesty comes in &#8212; because most pro-choicers would probably agree with that &#8212; but here&#8217;s his honesty: He says if that is our standard of human worthiness to live, then logically, we have to apply that to everyone &#8212; to life inside the womb and outside the womb.
So he is an open advocate for infanticide; he is an open advocate for terminating people with severe special needs and severe mental illness because they don&#8217;t meet that subjective standard of personhood.
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Stuckey also mentioned how far our lawmakers have fallen:
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&#8230; in January, the House passed the Born Alive Survivors Protection Act, which says a doctor who is performing an abortion has to save the life of the child who survived that abortion &#8212; so, outside the womb. All but six Democrats in the House voted &#8220;No&#8221; to saving the infant. To show you where we&#8217;ve come, back in 2002, a very similar if not stricter bill passed &#8230; in both chambers by just a voice vote.
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She added that just as the termination of infants prenatally diagnosed with Down syndrome is currently accepted in many countries, including the United States, it will eventually move to other disabilities:
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Most pro-choicers prefer that life is terminated inside the womb because the PR strategy for Planned Parenthood &#8212; to be openly pro-infanticide is little bit tricky &#8212; so they prefer that life be terminated inside the womb, which is why they are completely fine with places like Iceland having a 99.9% rate of terminating babies inside the womb with Down syndrome. That&#8217;s why they&#8217;re okay with it happening here at a 60% rate. And if you don&#8217;t think that that&#8217;s going to eventually extend to people with autism or different kinds of special needs, then you&#8217;re absolutely blind.
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Stuckey concluded by noting that &#8220;life&#8221; is the most important part of our constitutionally guaranteed rights, because without it, the others are irrelevant:
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Here&#8217;s why this matters; here&#8217;s why human dignity matters; here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important that we don&#8217;t set some subjective, arbitrary standard of human worthiness that people don&#8217;t meet. One, because we&#8217;ve already joined the ranks of North Korea and China in being one of only seven countries to allow abortion after 20 weeks, when a baby is known to flinch from the abortion needle, but also because without life, not a single one of our rights granted to us by God and guaranteed to us in the Constitution is secure. Every single one of them is at stake &#8212; and the founders knew this. That is exactly why, in the Declaration, &#8220;life&#8221; is listed before &#8220;liberty&#8221; or the &#8220;pursuit of happiness&#8221; because without life, without the protection of life, the understanding and agreement that human dignity starts in the womb, neither liberty nor the pursuit of happiness exists.
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Abortion advocates are quickly moving us toward a Nazi-style society where we eliminate people who don&#8217;t meet a subjective standard of worthiness.
Watch as <a href="https://twitter.com/conservmillen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ConservMillen</a> discusses America&#8217;s <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CultureofDeath?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#CultureofDeath</a>
More Allie at CRTV:<a href="https://t.co/WGCUpCORk8">https://t.co/WGCUpCORk8</a> <a href="https://t.co/NhLMRxSrHP">pic.twitter.com/NhLMRxSrHP</a>
&#8212; CRTV (@CRTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/CRTV/status/967869290618675200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 25, 2018</a></blockquote>
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WATCH: ‘The Conservative Millennial’ Talks Abortion And Eugenics At CPAC

Abortion

President Trump delivered a stemwinder of a speech at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday, renewing his call for trained teachers to be armed with weapons and vowing to do more to protect America&#8217;s students.
&#8220;When we declare our schools to be gun-free zones, it just puts our students in far more danger,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Well-trained gun-adept teachers and coaches and people that work in those buildings who were in the Marines for 20 years &#8230; should be able to carry concealed firearms. It&#8217;s time to make our schools a much harder target for attackers.&#8221;
In a 75-minute speech that drew cheers and a standing ovation at the end, Trump said &#8220;Why do we protect our airports and banks, but not our schools? When we make schools gun-free zones, it just puts our students in far more danger.&#8221;
On the school shooting in Florida that left 17 dead, Trump said, &#8220;There are not enough tears in the world to express our sorrow. They have suffered beyond anything I have ever witnessed.&#8221;
As he has said since the shooting, Trump called the gunman &#8220;a sick person. We had a lot of warning about him being sick. This wasn&#8217;t a surprise. So what are we doing? We want to ensure when there are warning signs, we can act, and act quickly.&#8221;
And he noted that the armed security guard at the school failed to do his job. &#8220;A teacher would have shot the hell out of him,&#8221; Trump said to cheers from the crowd.
Trump has been vocal in his desire to see changes made to protect students, offering up several proposals. But in the conservative crowd, he made sure to back the constitutional right to bear arms. &#8220;There&#8217;s nobody that loves the Second Amendment more than I do. But we really do have to strengthen up background checks. And we don&#8217;t want the mentally ill to have any form of weaponry. I really believe Congress is going to get it through this time.&#8221;
Trump also sought to reassure the conservative gathering that he still intends to push for a wall at America&#8217;s southern border. &#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;re getting the wall.&#8221;
In a ballroom at a hotel outside Washington, D.C., Trump joked about his &#8220;bald spot,&#8221; read a poem titled &#8220;The Snake,&#8221; and even called his own prepared speech &#8220;boring.&#8221;
At one point, Trump suddenly caught his own image on a Jumbotron screen. &#8220;What a nice picture that is, look at that, I&#8217;d love to watch that guy speak, oh God,&#8221; he said as the audience began cheering. He then turned his back to the crowd &#8212; watching himself on the big screen &#8212; and pantomimed fixing his hair, primping and pressing the tops and sides.
&#8220;Ohhhhh, I try like hell to hide that bald spot, folks, I work hard at it,&#8221; he said after turning back to face the crowd. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t look bad,&#8221; he said, looking back at himself. &#8220;Hey, we&#8217;re hanging in, we&#8217;re hanging in, we&#8217;re hanging in there, right? Together we are hanging in!&#8221;
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TRUMP: &#8220;I try like Hell to hide my bald spot.&#8221;
This is performance art. <a href="https://t.co/HtFQ11eRMc">pic.twitter.com/HtFQ11eRMc</a>
&#8212; Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href="https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/967060054053617664?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 23, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Trump also took aim at the media.
At one point early on, a protester rose up and shouted something. Security removed the man as the crowd shouted him down. Trump broke off in mid-sentence and waited for the disturbance to end &#8212; joking with event organizers about how the protester got in.
He then mocked the &#8220;fake news&#8221; about how they&#8217;ll cover the minor interruption.
&#8220;For the media, the fake news back there, they took very good care of them, they were very gentle, he was very obnoxious,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But tomorrow the headline will be: &#8216;Protesters Disturb.&#8217; One person &#8212; doesn&#8217;t deserve a mention, doesn&#8217;t deserve a headline.&#8221;

Trump Backs 2nd Amendment In Speech To Conservatives, Vows To Build Wall

WATCH: Shapiro’s Electrifying Speech At CPAC

Ben Shapiro

Full Frontal host Samantha Bee stepped in it big-time. A voiceover for a video on her show referred to attendees at CPAC as having &#8220;Nazi hair&#8221; while gleefully ignorant of the fact that one of the young men who was targeted was undergoing chemotherapy for stage 4 brain cancer.
As the video showed various young men at CPAC, the voice-over stated, &#8220;This year, the bow ties were gone, replaced by Nazi hair, Nazi hair, Nazi hair.&#8221;
But then . . .
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When <a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a> makes fun of your brother for having &#8220;Nazi hair.&#8221; He actually has stage 4 brain cancer, but whatever floats your boat. <a href="https://t.co/ULJC8nA3IX">pic.twitter.com/ULJC8nA3IX</a>
&#8212; Megan Coddington (@meg_kelly16) <a href="https://twitter.com/meg_kelly16/status/839822891961237505">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Hi <a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a>. Guy w/&#8221;Nazi hair&#8221; has cancer and is going through chemo, that&#8217;s why his hair looks like that. You need to apologize for this. <a href="https://t.co/mqbgNYHyaN">pic.twitter.com/mqbgNYHyaN</a>
&#8212; Kyle Foley (@KFoleyFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFoleyFL/status/839857624799674368">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The Twitter account for Full Frontal later <a href="https://twitter.com/fullfrontalsamb/status/839868388704862208">deleted a tweet</a> with the clip of Bee&#8217;s gigantic faux pas, but here&#8217;s the video:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB">@FullFrontalSamB</a> deleted their video. So here it is again: <a href="https://t.co/pH4G2wbv9J">pic.twitter.com/pH4G2wbv9J</a>
&#8212; Stephen N. Perkins (@Stephen_Perkins) <a href="https://twitter.com/Stephen_Perkins/status/839885670403428357">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Bee later offered a quasi-apology:
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We deeply apologize for offending <a href="https://twitter.com/_that_kyle">@_that_kyle</a> in our CPAC segment. We only learned of his condition today &amp; have removed him from the piece.
&#8212; Full Frontal (@FullFrontalSamB) <a href="https://twitter.com/FullFrontalSamB/status/839894761708404741">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Which was not universally accepted:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/iamsambee">@iamsambee</a> apologizing for offending him is shit, however. Way to still be an assclown.
&#8212; Kyle Foley (@KFoleyFL) <a href="https://twitter.com/KFoleyFL/status/839895558391222274">March 9, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Bee once <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDfpGdk3HgQ">stated</a>, &#8220;You know how people are always like, &#8216;I wonder why there aren&#8217;t more female comedians?&#8217; Maybe it&#8217;s because every time a woman opens her mouth to tell a joke, someone tries to put their d*** in it.&#8221;
This time it was her own foot.

Samantha Bee Deletes Video Saying Stage 4 Brain Cancer Patient Has ‘Nazi Hair’

Samantha Bee

President Donald Trump spoke at the 2017 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to an enthused crowd, his speech featured a lot of the usual Trumpian themes that people have come to expect from him. Here are the five biggest moments from his CPAC speech.
1. Trump doubled down on his tweet calling the media &#8220;the enemy of the people&#8221; while calling for an end to anonymous sources. &#8220;A few days ago I called the fake news the enemy of the people,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And they are. They are the enemy of the people.&#8221;
Trump justified his statement by smacking the media for not having reliable &#8220;sources, they just make &#8217;em up when there are none.&#8221;
&#8220;I saw one story recently where they said, &#8216;Nine people have confirmed,'&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;There&#8217;re no nine people. I don&#8217;t believe there was one or two people. Nine people. And I said, &#8216;Give me a break.&#8217; Because I know the people, I know who they talk to. There were no nine people.&#8221;
Trump was referring to the Washington Post&#8216;s report that stirred controversy about former national security advisor Mike Flynn&#8217;s exchanges with the Russian ambassador. The Washington Post <a href="http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/321009-washington-post-editor-stands-by-flynn-story-amid-trumps-fake-news">stood by their report</a> after Trump&#8217;s speech.
Later on, Trump declared, &#8220;Let there be no more sources,&#8221; a statement that at face value seems crazy because each article needs sources, but Trump eventually said, &#8220;And they shouldn&#8217;t use sources. They should put the name of the person. You will see stories dry up like you&#8217;ve never seen before.&#8221; Trump was conflating &#8220;sources&#8221; with anonymous sources.
He also called CNN the &#8220;Clinton News Network,&#8221; which naturally drew applause.
2. Trump praised Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on trade&#8211;and the crowd applauded. &#8220;A lot of Bernie people voted for Trump, you know why?&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;Because he&#8217;s right on one issue; trade. He was right about trade. Our country is being absolutely devastated with bad trade deals. So he was right about that, but we got a lot of Bernie support. So actually, I like Bernie. OK? I like Bernie.&#8221;
The crowd applauded for this position that is blatantly out of line with conservative values.
3. Trump signaled that he intends to bring people &#8220;off of welfare.&#8221; Trump stated his intentions for &#8220;tax reform&#8221; and that while some regulation was necessary, &#8220;we don&#8217;t need 75 percent of the repetitive, horrible regulations that hurt companies, hurt jobs, make us non-competitive overseas with other companies from other countries.&#8221;
After saying that there were already examples of major companies expanding in the country, Trump declared, &#8220;It&#8217;s time for all Americans to get off of welfare and get back to work.&#8221;
He didn&#8217;t expand on this, so it&#8217;s unclear if he was signaling support for welfare reform or if he simply thought that tax cuts and repealing regulations would be enough to bring people off welfare. Regardless, his line received applause.
4. Trump said that he has proposed a large military build-up. Trump stated that his administration has sent in &#8220;a massive budget request for our beloved military&#8221; that will result in &#8220;substantially upgrading all of our military.&#8221;
&#8220;It will be one of the greatest military build-ups in American history,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;No one will dare question as they have been because we&#8217;re very depleted, very, very depleted. Sequester. Sequester. Nobody will dare question our military might again. We believe in peace through strength and that&#8217;s what we will have.&#8221;
5. Towards the end of his speech, Trump made clear that &#8220;allegiance to America&#8221; is what &#8220;unites us all.&#8221; &#8220;There&#8217;s one allegiance that unites us all, and that is to America,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;America, it&#8217;s the allegiance to America.&#8221;
Trump continued:
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No matter our background or income, or geography, we&#8217;re all citizens of this blessed land. And no matter our color or the blood &#8212; the color of the blood we bleed, it&#8217;s the same red blood of great, great patriots. Remember, great patriots.
(APPLAUSE)
We all salute with pride, the same American flag, and we all are equal &#8212; totally equal in the eyes of almighty God, we&#8217;re equal.
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<a href="http://time.com/4682023/cpac-donald-trump-speech-transcript/">Quotes from the speech were provided by a transcript from Time.</a>
(<a href="http://therightscoop.com/watch-heres-trumps-full-speech-from-cpac-2017/">H/T</a>: The Right Scoop)
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5 Biggest Moments From Trump’s CPAC Speech

&#8220;For me, it&#8217;s difficult for me to call myself a feminist in the classic sense because it seems to be very anti-male and it certainly is very pro-abortion&#8230; and I&#8217;m neither anti-male nor pro-abortion,&#8221; said White House Senior Counselor Kellyanne Conway during a CPAC interview on Thursday with Mercedes Schlapp.

Conway described her upbringing as being somewhat apolitical, in which the term &#8220;feminism&#8221; never arose despite her being raised by what she said were strong and independent women:

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&#8220;I was raised in a house, I call it South Jersey&#8217;s version of the Golden Girls, with the housecoats and everything &#8211; nobody ever had a single political conversation, by my mom, her mom, two of my mother&#8217;s unmarried sisters&#8230; but I was raised to be a very strong and independent woman without anybody ever saying the word &#8216;feminist&#8217; or having a political conversation. We were just, we taught to be free-thinking [and] independent.&#8221;
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Conway described what she said was a &#8220;natural affinity&#8221; of President Donald Trump to work with and promote women to senior positions in the Trump Organization.

On the Democrats&#8217; and broader left&#8217;s attempt to frame women as a monolithic political constituency, Conway spoke of the failures of Hillary Clinton&#8217;s deployment of feminism as a political narrative: &#8220;I thought it was very telling this year&#8230; that many women looked past he commonality of gender and were looking for what they shared in terms of issues, ideology, vision, and just what they want out of their futures for themselves.&#8221;

Feminism is a neo-Marxist sociological paradigm predicated on the false premise that women have been oppressed by and relative to men across human history. It frames men and women as separate political constituencies (ignoring the ubiquitous institution of family) competing against one another in a zero-sum struggle for political power. It further frames women as a generalized cohort of victims oppressed by men.

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NATIONAL HARBOR, MD &#8211; FEBRUARY 23: White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (L) is interviewed by Mercedes Schlapp during the first day of the Conservative Political Action Conference at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center February 23, 2017 in National Harbor, Maryland. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, CPAC is an annual gathering of right wing politicians, commentators and their supporters. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

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Kellyanne Conway

&#8203;Now before you say anything, I know this is a little out of character for me. But I plead the Fifth! Steve Green, the Vodkapundit, put a fifth of scotch into me and there is a deadline to fill so here we are, my friends.
Hanging around with Steve Green is an amazing experience. He has the constitution of a yak. Steve Green cannot die until the EPA can find a safe place to bury his liver. They dip surgical instruments in his blood to sterilize them.
I met Steve and Scott Ott back in CPAC 2009. This would have been a month after that communist swine Obama was elected. Yeah, you heard me. CPAC in 2009 was like a funeral viewing, only not so cheerful or peppy.
Today was very different. People are smiling. It rained in California again. The drought is over. Hooray!
That said, while the mood is better, it seems to me that there is nothing like the crackle and energy of that first CPAC of mine. I&#8217;d been an admirer of Steve&#8217;s work at Vodkapundit, as well as Scott Ott&#8217;s satire at Scrappleface. They were fans of my essays at Eject! Eject! Eject! Of course, we were not the glamorous, magnificently paid internationally known celebrities we are today. Just simple bloggers pounding away on the internet because we felt, in those post 9/11 years when we all started, that we had to do something for America&#8230; even if it was only blogging, for God&#8217;s sake. 
Steve, Scott and I met for the first time in the lobby of the hotel. We went across the street to a very cold booth, had breakfast, and a half-hour later we had the idea for Trifecta, which became Right Angle. We have done something like five thousand episodes since then.
One evening in CPAC 2009, I got a call from a loose acquaintance of mine named Andrew Breitbart. He asked me if I wanted to go to dinner with Ann Coulter. I said &#8220;boy howdy!&#8221;
We went to an expensive restaurant in DC. The night was historic, really: it was the last time in recorded history when Your&#8217;s Truly shut up for a while and listened to these two people; titans, really, which was remarkable since all of us, Steve and Scott and I especially, seemed to be just regular shmoes called to try to do something about the fate of the country we all loved, and continue to love.
Even then, going to a restaurant with Ann Coulter was a unique experience. I have been around a few famous people before, and I know what it looks like when someone is staring at a person, trying to be sure if they were famous or not. I saw that with Ann, but I also saw real anger at her and after hearing some of her personal stories I simply marveled at her physical and moral courage.
Back then, politics on the internet was new and we all felt a sense of electrical excitement in the air: we regular guys &#8211; sad, isn&#8217;t it? &#8211; were going to have to stand up and do what the immortals had done before us: get out there and defend the country in this new war of images and ideas.
It&#8217;s been almost five years since Andrew died of a heart attack. Steve and Scott and I still have the passion to do four or five shows a week for eight years without missing a single week. CPAC 2017 is filled with bright-eyed young people who are now, suddenly, not just the campus weirdos but the ones speaking for a party that has won the Presidency, the Senate, the House of Representatives, and at least one &#8211; if not two or three &#8211; Supreme Court picks. So things are better but not as exciting. Maybe we too felt the romance of being in opposition to the most powerful forces on the earth. And what was a passion remains a passion, but now it is a business as well, and we owe our livelihoods to our ability to convince people like you that while TV is free, and the internet is free, we need to get you to pay for TV on the internet. We all know that this is the future of news, but it takes a while for the dust to settle from the asteroid impact that wiped out the Mainstream Media dinosaurs.
What has not changed, however, is the most important thing of all. To actually meet our audience; to hear people tell you that you have helped to change their lives&#8230; that has the same, undiluted effect today as it did when we started the game in earnest in 2009. You people are so kind, so sensible and so fundamentally honorable that it has forced all three of us to become better people in order to rise to your standards. You have, through the rigors of a fire assay, forced us as individuals and as a movement to find the gold within ourselves and to present that gleam in the service of the idea of what America is, and for that we are genuinely and eternally grateful.

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On Friday, Mark Levin spoke at CPAC, eloquently defending conservatism and fiercely denouncing the threat of Donald Trump. Although he did not mention Trump by name, Levin left little doubt as to whom he referred.
After recounting the history of Ronald Reagan, citing his determination in confronting the establishment and resulting in two massive electoral victories in 1980 and 1984, Levin stated, &#8220;Reagan was a full-throated conservative. He was a full-throated, anti-establishment conservative.&#8221;
Levin explained:
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Reagan was not a cult-like figure, to which anyone could project their beliefs upon him; he was a man of strong ideas. He was agenda-driven. There was no confusion about where he stood on matters of faith, national security, domestic affairs, and other areas of life. There was no confusion about whom he blamed for most of the problems in society: big centralized government. He used to refer to it as &#8220;The Iron Triangle.&#8221; The Iron Triangle of Congress, the media, special interests. And it was Reagan who first coined the phrase: &#8220;We will make America great again.&#8221;
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Levin then referenced Trump, saying of Reagan: &#8220;Reagan was not a recent convert to conservatism; he was a long-time advocate for it,&#8221; a line which elicited huge applause.
Levin continued:
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Reagan was not elected because he was a great dealmaker; he was elected because he had solid principles.
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&#8230; After Reagan left the presidency, having laid the foundation upon which future Republican presidents could build and expand on his success, the Republican establishment resorted to its old ways. They called the return to big centralized government, &#8220;kinder and gentler.&#8221; Later, they called it compassionate conservatism. Today they call it &#8220;common sense conservatism.&#8221; Well, conservatism is already kinder and gentler, it&#8217;s already compassionate, and it&#8217;s already common sense all wrapped in one. There is nothing to apologize for.
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&#8230; Nor is conservatism about nationalism or populism, phrases that have no concrete meaning or constitutional basis &#8230;
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Levin continued by noting the enormous success of the Tea Party, from winning massive numbers of seats in the House to taking control of the Senate, to winning governorships and state legislatures. He exhorted, &#8220;Don&#8217;t tell me the conservative movement can&#8217;t win elections and doesn&#8217;t have power!&#8221;
He ripped the GOP establishment, stating, &#8220;But at the federal level, the Republican Party, now in complete control of both houses of Congress, refused to truly engage Barack Obama, the most reckless, lawless, imperial president in modern if not all American history.&#8221;
After listing the incredible number of ways Barack Obama has perverted the presidency, Levin asserted, &#8220;We conservatives are in the best position in three decades to win back the presidency in a landslide. That is, only if we do something we have not done since 1984, thirty-two long years ago: nominate a true, known, solid unapologetic conservative for the presidency of the United States.
Levin returned to Trump:
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&#8230; Let me be clear: it is not enough to win the nomination by personally beating down your opponents, with such vulgar ruthlessness, espousing conflicting or ever-changing beliefs, trashing the establishment one day yet bragging about working with them the next. That is playing both insider and outsider; and then expect these disparate parts of the Republican Party and the conservative movement, having been exploited and turned against each other, to suddenly rally to your cause.
</blockquote>
As he closed, Levin warned, &#8220;If we want to make America great again, as Reagan first said, you, must get behind the most conservative candidate in this race.&#8221;
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&#8220;It is not enough to win the nomination by personally beating down your opponents, with such vulgar ruthlessness, espousing conflicting or ever-changing beliefs, trashing the establishment one day yet bragging about working with them the next.&#8221;
Mark Levin
</blockquote>
Levin began his conclusion with the famous Reagan quote: &#8220;You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We&#8217;ll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children&#8217;s children say of us, we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.&#8221;
Levin concluded: &#8220;Fellow conservatives, let us justify our brief moment here, and do all that can be done. God bless you all and God bless America.&#8221;

Mark Levin’s Eloquent CPAC Speech

Mark Levin

Ronald Reagan

Donald Trump, whose efforts at painting himself as a strong conservative were seriously damaged last night in the GOP debate, has shown his contempt for conservatives, canceling his appearance at one of the most important conservative events in the nation.
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Very disappointed <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">@realDonaldTrump</a> has decided at the last minute to drop out of <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/CPAC?src=hash">#CPAC</a> &#8212; his choice sends a clear message to conservatives.
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Trump was <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/04/politics/donald-trump-skipping-cpac/index.html">scheduled to appear</a> on Saturday, but instead, his campaign released a statement asserting Trump would attend rallies in Kansas and Florida. The statement added, &#8220;Because of this, he will not be able to speak at CPAC as he has done for many consecutive years. Mr. Trump would like to thank Matt Schlapp and all of the executives at CPAC and looks forward to returning to next year, hopefully as president of the United States.&#8221;
The American Conservative Union, the conference&#8217;s organizers, stated, &#8220;We are very disappointed Donald Trump has decided at the last minute to drop out of CPAC. This comes at a critical time in our movement&#8217;s history. His decision sends a clear message to grassroots conservatives &#8230; CPAC is the heart and soul of the conservative movement and will be, with or without Mr. Trump. Since we invited him several months ago&#8212;and Mr. Trump accepted our invitation and terms &#8212;we made it clear all candidates would follow the same format. And now he is backing out.&#8221;
Trump is likely worried about his candidacy for the first time, after he was eviscerated in Thursday&#8217;s debate by his nearest rival, Ted Cruz. Cruz won virtually unanimous rave reviews for his performance while Trump waffled on numerous issues, backtracked on his hard-line immigration stance, bragged about his penis, and insisted that as president, he would order American soldiers to break the law by murdering families of terrorists.
For all of Trump&#8217;s braggadocio and self-declared toughness, he has a hard time when he is in a hostile environment; the likely possibility is that after Thursday&#8217;s debate, conservatives would have some tough questions for him, and would not be satisfied by the usual platitudes and inaccuracies Trump offers with abandon.
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The likely possibility is that after Thursday&#8217;s debate, conservatives would have some tough questions for him, and would not be satisfied by the usual platitudes and inaccuracies Trump offers with abandon.

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The most <a href="http://therightscoop.com/breathe-donald-breathe-ted-cruz-shuts-up-trump-marco-makes-yoga-jokes-gopdebate/">hilarious moment</a> of Thursday&#8217;s debate came when Cruz told Trump to &#8220;breathe, breathe, breathe.&#8221; 
Apparently Trump&#8217;s idea of taking a breath includes ducking hard questions until he can catch his breath again.

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