Posted on 03/26/2013 5:04:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In a bizarre rant--or "open letter"--at Townhall, Scottie Hughes, the news director for the Tea Party News Network, falsely accuses former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin of rushing out of this year's CPAC and having a pattern of ignoring grassroots conservatives.
While Hughes's motivation for writing such a column may only be known to her, her accusations are demonstrably false.
Doug McMarlin, who has been with Palin since 2008 and was with her at this year's CPAC, was also perplexed by Hughes's characterization of the event. Palin met with volunteers, supporters and CPAC leadership at this year's event. Palin keynoted last year's CPAC and was the conference's last speaker, which allowed for her to mix with the audience following her speech.
This year, her slot fell on a Saturday afternoon, which meant there were scheduled speakers immediately after her remarks. It would not have been logistically possible for Palin to even greet the crowd or do talk radio hits from CPAC without causing a huge disturbance due to the crowds that would have swarmed her and disrupted the conference.
"Never underestimate the level the uninformed with a keyboard will go to make a point based on a lack of information," McMarlin told Breitbart News. "Lamestream, mainstream, and no stream media, it's unfortunate when those who lack facts lash out without regard. Governor Palin, as always, was with volunteers, supporters and fellow conservatives throughout her days at CPAC."
Hughes also implied that Palin only speaks to the grassroots through the teleprompter, but this accusation again does not even pass the smell test........
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Rove’s idea.
Some of us warned the TEA Party about letting the GOP in. But did many of the groups listen?
Now the group Palin helped popularize attacks her. And it does not matter that it’s one group. The fact is, it’s TEA and all other branches will carry the stigma.
Kick her out! We have enough liars in the other two parties
ping.
Scottie isn’t ugly, but her beauty pales beside Sarah.
This seems to be a “Mirror, mirror...” kind of “editorial.
So the leftist Republicrat Party hijacked CPAC and now they hijacked the Tea Party too ?
In all fairness, Sarah Palin straddles the fence too well.
She speaks well to conservatives, but then she hedges her bets with others. Over time, it makes you start to question her reliability.
The tea party is dead, Jim. Here’s why.
Totally ludicrous accusations. Palin sticks around and meets folks more than anyone I’ve ever seen. This time at CPAC, her speech was timed and sandwiched in between others, so she couldn’t do her usual rope-line thing. But the mentioning of a “teleprompter” is a total givaway of the baselessness and the calculated nature of this criticism, because Palin famously avoids them like the plague.
Just unsubscribed from the TPNN
WTH is up with this?
“Just unsubscribed from the TPNN”
Yeah, that will teach them
I have an FR question, I can only get the “latest posts”, rather than the threads (everything), do you know how to fix that?
Click the “Articles” tab....
No, I sure don't but let's ask the mod for help.
Thanks for the mention of clicking on articles, evidently I must have clicked on comments somehow and not noticed it.
You should have these options:
Articles Activity Comments
Clicking on “Articles” should help.
If you want all forums, make sure you are in “everything”
Thanks Mod!
Thanks
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