Free Speech Panel at CPAC Canceled by Pamela Geller After Gateway Pundit Jim Hoft Banned

Breitbart ^ | 2/21/18 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[TBP]

What’s the problem with Gateway Pundit? I have found it to be a pretty good site.

[Nextrush]

I think they too “inside the beltway” and use a Nigel Farage or a LePen to draw in people who really believe in something to their phoney baloney event.

Nigel is in Washington this week and I guess he will be around.

[ZULU]

Some of the crap coming out of CPAC recently has been very troubling. It has been RINOesque.

[Katya]

Why is this even a controversy? CPAC is the Conservative Political Action Committee... I've gone on and off for years and routinely find it much too conservative for my taste. That doesn't mean it doesnt have worth or merit. Most CPAC attendees supported Cruz in 2016, because guess what? Trump is not conservative.

I don't have an issue with Conservatives having their own convention, where they invite people with view points they're interested in hearing on panels, and disinviting those they're not down with.

[ObozoMustGo2012]

[A dumb comment that shows that you haven’t been paying attention.]

When you work feverishly to overturn the results of a primary election that one candidate clearly one and sow division amongst a party, risking a Democrat win, and continue to be an embarrassment like rubbing your face in a plate of crushed Cheetos, you’re not conservative.

Now who’s really not paying attention??

[TADSLOS]

Yep. Remember self appointed primary heir apparent McCain showing up with busloads of campaign stooges in 2008 and taking over the event? CPAC lost me at that moment.

[ncalburt]

I have no idea .

They have so few outlets ..

Cpac are idiots .
Hoft has been spot on attacking the left.

[apocalypto]

Glenn Beck is NO conservative. And he is not for freedom of speech.

[DrDude]

Terry Schilling, executive director of APP

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This is the villan. He made the determination that Hoft could not participate. then blamed it on Geller. It was all Schilling. Very clear from another article where Schilling had media spin everything. Another case of Conservatives eating their own. Could just leave things alone. Had to create a problem.

[TBP]

And that is all you know — and the first part is completely false.

You have no idea what you’re talking about.

[bgill]

Wrong move, Pamela. You should have gone on with the show and at every chance brought up Hoft.

[joma89]

Has CPAC, like many other conservative movements (or so it seems), been co-opted?

JoMa