[P.O.E.]

The Economist has drifted so far to the left over the last 10 years, it's getting irksome. I suppose they suffer from journalistic groupthink when it comes to politics. If it wasn't for the fact the magazine has articles on events you can't easily find in one place in the western press (e.g., in Africa, Asia, on technology, economic theory, etc.), I'd nix my subscription

ANYway, I'm awfully proud of the showing you folks put up at CPAC, and I guess it must be having an impact for the international press to be making such a fuss.

[exhaustedmomma]

But love for Mr Bush has not blotted out their hatred for his predecessor.

Damn Skippy!!

Last weekend more than 4,000 conservative activists—1,700 of them college students—gathered in Arlington, Virginia
eeeeeghads, they realize they are loosing ground in the most sacred of their hallow halls!

Why hold the conference in Virginia, where conservatism is in the drinking water and liberal-baiting a sport? Next year, try Paris.
Well, that could be fun!!!!!

[Seeking the truth]

One activist stopped selling his “No Muslims = No terrorism” stickers when the vice-president's office complained. But there was no shortage of anti-Islamic ware: T-shirts mocking the idea that Islam is a religion of peace, mugs hinting that Islam is a new form of Nazism.

I am that "frightening activist" and the name of my website is 0cents.com

These leftist media people never, never publish the URL of my web site!

I gave an interview at CPAC to the Salon.com reporterette. I insisted that she put www.0cents.com in her story. I told her that we are both internet based companies and that she should print my URL - she didn't!

I've been hounded for three days now by the political reporter for the Palm Beach Post. In fact, I just spoke to him. I told him no interview without a guarantee of my web site's URL in his article.

He hemmed & hawed.

I reminded him of the multiple times that the Palm Beach Compost has prominently - front page - above the fold - repeatedly mentioned Moveon.org

He's checking with his editor - I am not holding my breath.

[zefrog]

The Economist has drifted so far to the left over the last 10 years, it's getting irksome.

What's irksome is how polarized and intolerant you must be to consider The Economist as a leftist newspaper. To start with, they have consistently made the case for war in Iraq and supported Bush's view on international politics against european views. They are as agressive as ever in their defense of free market and free trade and in their criticisms of continental politics. They have even sided with Bjorn Lomborg on environment.

You know, you remind me of west european communists in the 50s and 60s. They were so brainwashed and closed-minded that anyone among the left who dared being critical of a single bit of the ideological iconography was immediately considered as a traitor. And, just like you, they were absolutely convinced that the media were systematically extremists from the other side.

[Reagan Man]

>>>Delegates crammed into a huge hall to hear Dick Cheney, Katherine Harris and other conservative heroes speak from a stage draped in red, white and blue and backed by 18 American flags.

Sounds like everyone had a great time.

Hoo-yah!

[FreeTheHostages]

That doesn't sound like the CPAC conference I attended.

I'm not big on hating Democrats -- they are our recruiting base -- they just have to mature and learn about the world.

I was there two days for a lot of time and I just didn't see this anti-Muslim and hate-filled stuff they talk about. Of course, I did see a "Fry Mumia" t-shirt, um, I think I was wearing it, but leave it to the Economist not to see the playful aspect (a play on words on the "Free Mumia" mantra of the left).

Mumia __ HIS NAME IS WESLEY COOK __ has already avoided the death penalty, so everyone knows in fact he's not going to "fry" for killing DANIEL FAULKNER.

But, does the Economist know that the guy's name is "Wesley Cook." Do they know the name of the victim? Did they miss taxman's playful floating American airship and FRN's display about the American flag balloon and the DC Chapter's display of humorous and peaceful Freeps?

I mean, were they REALLY at the same conference I was at?

I'm not into hate. Seems like the Economist writer has a hate problem.

[uncbob]

I didn't realize that conservatives had been LEASHED

[uncbob]

The exit foyers will remind people how the Clintonites trashed the White House when they left.

Once you get past the headline I didn't think the article itself was much of a hachet job

NOTICE they didn't say ALLEGEDLY thrashed the WH

[Darheel]

'Last weekend more than 4,000 conservative activists'

Wow! That's a lot of Bibles, barbeque, and burma shave. lol

Why Virginia? So the delegates can have a cigarette before flying to the convention in occupied New York I think.

[LibKill]

Conservatives, off their leash, are a frightening bunch

The very title of this article is insulting to conservatives. It implies that we are dogs.

"Sooner forgive an injury than an insult."

[sauropod]

" They wore “Fry Mumia” T-shirts (referring to a cop-killer who, for some reason, has become a cause célèbre for the left)..."

It's my current formalware. I wore dress everything else except for the t-shirt. Heh!

[CyberAnt]

Hmmmm? Such an attack does elicit the posibility that the conference was especially good!

That said, I thought this quote was a bit over the top: "They brimmed with hatred".

Then, this line sort of hit me too: "George Bush dolls that repeat his classic lines, such as, 'We will not allow our enemies to hold our nation hostile.'

That last word "hostile" - did the author make that little mistake - the word should be "hostage". I think the author was the only one there who was hostile.

[Bob J]

What, no mention of the FR booth?

[BfloGuy]

Well color me naive, but I don't see any horrible anti-right bias, here.

It's tongue-in-cheek, to be sure, but hardly a devastating indictment of CPAC.

And the last line, that CPAC might consider holding its next meeting in Paris is actually pretty funny.

Awful lot of indignant responses to a pretty fluffy little story.

[RightOnline]

What never ceases to chap my hide is the haughty, tight-assed, pinched-faced, condescending way these prissy little libs flick their wrists and paint us as knuckle-dragging Neanderthals.

All this because we happen to believe in America, the Constitution, honor, and possess a visceral hatred of tyranny wherever it may be.

To the Economist: Save your pants-pissing. You aren't on our target list.....................yet.

[Porterville]

Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC),

SIGN ME UP!!!

[sweetliberty]

Sounds like a great place to have been. Was the article suppose to have been critical?

[Doctor Raoul]

Pardon me, but did he say, FRY MUMIA t-shirts?"

Click here to see what they looked like.

[nutmeg]

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