CPAC News

“Youth For Western Civilization”: Racist Group, CPAC Attendee

5:10 pm EST June 16th, 2011 | Conservative | 70 Comments

Back in February I posted video of “Youth For Western Civilization” who attended and had a booth at CPAC 2011, the annual conservative convention.

Also speaking at CPAC 2011: Rick Perry, Tim Pawlenty, Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, and Dick Cheney.

The Southern Povery Law Center has a report about “Youth For Western Civilization” out today:

In April 2011, a YWC fundraising package was sent to members of racist ideologue Jared Taylor’s mailing list. In it, Taylor promoted DeAnna as someone who “knows how important our cultural identity is.” In an accompanying letter, DeAnna told Taylor’s subscribers that he had defended “western culture” against those trying to “destroy our people.” (Taylor, editor of the racist journal American Renaissance, has written, “When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization – any kind of civilization – disappears.”) DeAnna has known Taylor for at least five years. In 2006, he co-founded a right-wing club that invited Taylor to speak.

Marcus Epstein, a man later described by DeAnna as “vice president” of YWC, drunkenly attacked a random black woman in 2007, calling her a “nigger” and attempting to strike her before being arrested. After the incident became public two years later, DeAnna denied that Epstein, a close friend, had been a YWC official.

VIDEO: Racist Group “Youth For Western Civilization” At CPAC

10:01 am EST February 11th, 2011 | Conservative | 33 Comments

They of course find a receptive audience. (via)

Their mission statement:

We have the self-evident right and duty to work for the survival of our own culture and civilization. There is no reason to believe that the advances of modernity and the political freedoms we enjoy will endure with the extinction of the civilization that allowed them to exist.

Topic: CPAC, Race, Racism, Youth For Western Civilization

David Horowitz: CPAC Has Ties To Radical Islam

9:52 am EST February 11th, 2011 | Conservative | 2 Comments

Watching this gang of kooks beat up on each other is really fun.

Following in the footsteps of right-wing pundit Frank Gaffney, David Horowitz is accusing CPAC of having connections to radical Islam. Horowitz spoke at a CPAC panel in 2009, where he was introduced by notorious anti-Muslim activist Pamela Geller, and the David Horowitz Freedom Center is a CPAC participating organization. But Horowitz, who recently defended Glenn Beck in his linking of the progressive movement to the Muslim Brotherhood and claimed that public school teachers encourage the indoctrination of students into “Jihadist doctrines,” has now joined other CPAC detractors like Gaffney to blast the involvement of Suhail Khan. Khan is a board member of the American Conservative Union, which hosts CPAC, and tomorrow is leading a panel on inclusion in the conservative movement.

Topic: CPAC, David Horowitz

Palin 2012 Button At CPAC

9:25 am EST February 11th, 2011 | Conservative, Republicans | 46 Comments

The retort, of course, is the same that was used with Goldwater when his supporters used this slogan: “In your gut, you know she’s nuts.”

(via)

Topic: 2012 Election, CPAC, Sarah Palin

Conservatives Hate Gays, Boycott CPAC

10:31 am EST January 7th, 2011 | Conservative | 10 Comments

Conservatives once again show gays that they would rather they not be a part of their movement, as Media Research Center and the Heritage Foundation boycott CPAC because the group GOProud will be participating.

The tent over there is only for straight (or closeted at least) white males with wealth.

Topic: CPAC, Heritage Foundation, LGBT, Media Research Center

Darrell Issa’s Wimpier Version Of Birtherism

2:04 am EST February 19th, 2010 | News | 7 Comments

Rep. Darrell Issa, who 2 years ago was denigrating 9/11 victims (a conservative tradition) and using Tim Russert’s death as a vehicle to push domestic oil drilling, is planning to attack President Obama as pushing foreign-based ideas during a presentation at the Bircher-sponsored CPAC event.

This is the part where I point out that Issa and the brand of ideas he represents isn’t the fringe of the conservative movement, but rather what passes for acceptable discourse on that side. And then I kid myself by thinking the mainstream press would actually do anything other than carry water for these people.

Topic: CPAC

Marco Rubio Makes Obama Teleprompter Jokes While Reading From Teleprompter

11:04 am EST February 18th, 2010 | Republicans | 23 Comments

Sometimes, most times, the conservative world is beyond parody.

Topic: CPAC, Marco Rubio

John Birch Society Sponsoring CPAC

12:19 pm EST December 16th, 2009 | News | 21 Comments

The John Birch Society is one of America’s original right-wing conspiracy groups. They first began exercising power during the 1964 Goldwater campaign, as their campaigns vs Supreme Court justices and against the perils of fluoridated water (as seen in Dr. Strangelove) captured the imagination of the far right. As we’ve seen, under President Obama, conservative conspiracy theories are all the rage. From fictional death panels to communist infiltration and of course birtherism, it is time again for the conspiracy right to exert their control.

The John Birch Society announces it is cosponsoring the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) 2010, to be held in Washington DC, Feb. 18-20.

JBS will have a double booth with half dedicated to offering educational and promotional materials and the other half housing a TV studio that will stream live video from the booth and broadcast onto JBS LibertyNewsNetwork.tv, a website that will feature archived JBS video and live video streams.

(via Matt Lewis)

Topic: CPAC, John Birch Society, Top