Posted on 02/24/2017 3:27:50 PM PST by nickcarraway
It's not exactly William Buckley challenging conservatives to marginalize the John Birch Society in the 1960s, but the leadership of the American Conservative Union, sponsors of the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), finally acted to clear the meeting of some of the more odious appendages of the so-called alt-right by kicking out one of its recognized leaders, Richard Spencer.
Spencer, a white nationalist and anti-Semite, was denounced from the main stage of CPAC by the executive director of the ACU, Dan Schneider. After being cornered by the press, where the alt-right bomb-thrower tossed a few grenades at conservatives, he was asked to leave the premises by conference staff.
Washington Post:
"People want to talk to me," Spencer told NBC News from outside the Gaylord National Harbor complex. "They don't want to talk to these boring conservatives. They want to learn about ideas whose time has come, not whose time has passed."
Spencer, who has frequently attended CPAC without incident, became a minor media sensation during and after the 2016 election. One of the first speeches at this year's conference challenged the media to stop referring to the alt-right as conservative.
"There is a sinister organization that is trying to worm its way into our ranks," said Dan Schneider, the executive director of the American Conservative Union, which runs CPAC. "We must not be deceived by [a] hateful, left-wing fascist group."
There was an irony to Spencer's expulsion on the same day the conference featured White House strategist Stephen K. Bannon, the former CEO of Breitbart News, who once called the site "the platform for the alt
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I’d be hopeful for the future of the USA if the imbeciles at C-PAC and the GOP stopped calling themselves “RED”.
Bunch of Morons.
The HARD RIGHT is all that stands between us and annihilation.
You’re thinking of Robert Spencer.
This is Richard.
Falling for the FAKE NEWS Crap, You have no IDEA Who this Man is Morons..
I repeat you people are KNEE JERK Morons, You fall for the left mems, sheesh...
The two political poles have apparently become the far left vs. the squishy middle.
Patriots will be found when the fighting is house to house... Will that be too late?
Does Spencer write for Pam Geller?
By posting on FR you have been defined as alt-right. So annoying, because that means we are white nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic.
I love how the left tears down others by labeling them anti-Semitic, yet there is no greater anti-Semitic group of people than the left.
Bingo.
I’m with you.
But I also don’t trust CPAC.
...”more precise terms ...”
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Exactly. And the most convincing approach of all is to discuss people in terms of issues, i.e., “Spencer praised Nazis on date x,” rather than “Spencer is alt-right,” whatever that means.
Who got dragged out of CPAC during the President’s speech ... nobody said a word?
Naw, that's Robert Spencer, who is Greek Lebanese or something, he must have chosen a name to use in the US or something. Not the first time though, I've seen the mixup.
“Does Spencer write for Pam Geller?”
“Naw, that’s Robert Spencer, who is Greek Lebanese or something, he must have chosen a name to use in the US or something. Not the first time though, I’ve seen the mixup.’
Thanks, BeadCounter.
I am not an alt-right, I am a proud PALEOCON.
Paleo, as in ancient, old, pre-neo, pre NWO.
Don’t even know what an alt-right is and don’t care.
My son and daughter tell me that I am somewhere to the right of Attila The Hun.
I kind of like Spencer.
He doesn’t seem like an enemy of freedom.
>I kind of like Spencer.
He doesn’t seem like an enemy of freedom.
He looks like David Duke 2.0 to me.
They may reference us as alt-Right here, but we’re not claiming it.
We support time honored people and documents.
I think we could defend ourselves quite easily if ever challenged.
I’m not down on any race, and that includes Arabs if they want to live in peach with others.
Paleo sounds good to me. “:^)
I probably fit in close to there myself.
I was on board with most of our dogma way back in the late 60s, with some growth since then.
It had been my take that abortion was wrong throughout my life, but I’d have to say mid-90s, I became much more negative about it.
Dan Schneider is either a simple moron, or a hateful liar, or both.
He claimed the term Alt Right was hijacked. False, easily discovered that Richard Spencer invented the term.
He claims the Alt Right are leftists. False. Spencer was an editor at Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative and Taki Mag before setting out on his own.
He implicitly claims Spencer is an anti-Semite for wanting a white ethno-state, like Israel. That might be a stupid or unrealistic idea, but it’s not anti-Semitic.
If you are going to use your considerable power to attack some one or some group in a public forum, and refuse to give them the opportunity to respond, you damn well need to get your facts right. Moran and Schneider did not.
Personally I’m tired of these beltway cuckservatives lying and manipulating people to advance their own agenda.
There is that. Never go alt-retard, man.
Then there is possibility for this [from 9YearLurker];
Out with the Richard C. Pencer (I don't know if his middle initial is "C", I just made that up -- C for Cranium)
and save a good seat for Robert Spencer (Jihad Watch).
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