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RNC Cancels Breitbart Fundraiser [Rescheduled, not canceled]
CNN ^ | Sunday, August 1, 2010 | Mark Preston

Posted on 08/01/2010 3:12:26 PM PDT by kristinn

Edited on 08/01/2010 10:55:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Rescheduled, not cancelled: Breitbart to get RNC invite

The Republican National Committee has cancelled a fundraiser with conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart, who is under fire for promoting an edited video that falsely portrays former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod as having boasted about discriminating against a white farmer looking for her assistance.

Breitbart was scheduled to appear with RNC Chairman Michael Steele at a reception later this month in Beverly Hills.


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To: carmody; Never on my watch; kristinn

“CNN getting it wrong again.”

The lie is on purpose. The socialists (including their propaganda outlets like CNN) see this as war, and therefore outright lies, cheating, distortions, misrepresentations are perfectly fine and effective weapons to use. Even moral, as far as they are concerned because they’re fighting a greater “evil” - freedom.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2561885/posts

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81 posted on 08/01/2010 4:33:18 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: anniegetyourgun
As opposed to the Dems?

The OP(formerly the GOP)have been for decades leading people to believe they are the opposition to the RATs when in fact they are merely one wing of the socialist Republicrat party.
82 posted on 08/01/2010 4:36:00 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: Paperdoll
I will go back to funding the RNC when it starts being Republican!

The RNC has been Republican for a long time. That's the problem.
83 posted on 08/01/2010 4:37:20 PM PDT by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: kristinn; ExTexasRedhead

No more money to the RNC from me period.


84 posted on 08/01/2010 4:37:48 PM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: kristinn

Perhaps the RNC would like to invite Shirley’s husband:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrcJ3cBDS7Y


85 posted on 08/01/2010 4:45:11 PM PDT by freespirited (There are a lot of bad Republicans but there are no good Democrats.--Ann Coulter)
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To: kristinn

dump Steele uncerimoniously and let the sparks fly

it will make not one tenth a percentage point difference in how blacks vote

zip

and I will feel better

the national RNC seems to mimic the hold moderates have on the GOP here in Tennessee


86 posted on 08/01/2010 4:49:12 PM PDT by wardaddy (effed up times..)
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To: kristinn

Once again, Republicans bow to the leftists because it’s easier than doing their own thinking.

The real story here is that the NAACP members comprising the audience cheered when Sherrod stated she had screwed a white guy solely on the basis of his race.

They didn’t wait for the part where she claimed to have put her racism aside and in fact they couldn’t have cared less if she did.
To them the important part of the story is that she used her position of power to stick it to Whitey.

The gutless Republicans should be clearly stating their objections to the NAACP approval of racism instead of teaming with leftists to disparage Breitbart.


87 posted on 08/01/2010 4:49:58 PM PDT by Iron Munro (You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat - Claire Wolfe)
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To: kristinn
Never a penny to the RNC again

.

88 posted on 08/01/2010 4:54:37 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: pabianice

Brietbart willlive to skewer DEMS another day!!! GO ANDREW!!


89 posted on 08/01/2010 4:54:37 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: kristinn
This isn't a bad thing.

Assuming that they are both working towards the same goal (ie, politically damaging and bringing down Obama and the Dems) such a move give both Breitbart AND the RNC a heck of a lot more maneuvering room to focus on their respective areas of specialty.

I'm assuming that most of us have seen the Mary Frances Berry interview where she says that it doesn't matter whether the Tea Party is racist or not - Dems still need to throw out the racism charge because it's an effective distraction against talking about a lack of jobs, etc (article here.

If this fundraiser or any other joint activity takes place, then the media emphasis will be on the relationship, rather than what is actually being said and exposed. "Plausible deniability" in the form of both sides (Breitbart and the RNC) being able to claim independence and distance from one another is an effective counter to such tactics.
90 posted on 08/01/2010 4:55:21 PM PDT by tanknetter
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To: BallyBill

AMEN....money to ANDREW BEFORE THE RNC!!


91 posted on 08/01/2010 4:55:44 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ghost of Philip Marlowe

UNCLE POWELL!!!!!! HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!!! GREAT ONE!!!!! STANDING OVATION!!!


92 posted on 08/01/2010 4:57:08 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: tanknetter

Your plan is way, way too smart.

If the RNC was that smart we wouldn’t be in the mess we’re in right now. We wouldn’t have gotten here in the first place.


93 posted on 08/01/2010 4:57:33 PM PDT by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality: Marxism is Evil.)
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To: paulycy

Might as well make LAURA BUSH the Chairwoman of the RNC!! DEMOCRAT.


94 posted on 08/01/2010 5:01:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion......the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Paperdoll

>>”Meanwhile I support conservative candidates running in any state.”<<

Mrs. panax and I left the GOP and registered with the Conservative Party. When they purge the RINO’s maybe we’ll come back, maybe.


95 posted on 08/01/2010 5:06:56 PM PDT by panaxanax (Keep plucking those chickens and boiling that tar. There's a party coming in November!)
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To: mylife

We’re screwed.

These people are such pussies

.....................

You are so right!

Not one of them with cojones!


96 posted on 08/01/2010 5:12:30 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: ExTexasRedhead

Instead of getting rid of him, let’s just set up a parallel unit. Sarah Palin can head it, gather national funds for conservative folks. Maybe call it Conservative National Committee instead of Republican NC. Could overlap when feasible, contribute to conservatives when RINOS were backed by the RNC. Flex muscles.


97 posted on 08/01/2010 5:21:24 PM PDT by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: MizSterious

Donate to Breitbart? Please post how-to.


98 posted on 08/01/2010 5:23:30 PM PDT by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: mylife

Exactly my first thought when I read this.


99 posted on 08/01/2010 5:23:36 PM PDT by FatherFig1o155 (It's time to expose politicians for what they are. My soapbox is here: njconservative.wordpress.com/)
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To: kristinn

RNC is dead to me!
Not one penny more.


100 posted on 08/01/2010 5:24:25 PM PDT by J Edgar
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