{"id":10140,"date":"2013-03-15T05:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T12:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=10140"},"modified":"2013-03-15T05:28:58","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T12:28:58","slug":"introducing-cpuke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/15\/introducing-cpuke\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing CPUKE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keep your kids inside, and make your <em>dawgs<\/em> wear chastity belts!&#160; The craziest of the crazy are now running wild, mindlessly drunk on InsaniTEA.&#160; At a zoo, one can normally find a guide to help you understand the animals there, and I have found a guide to the Republicans at CPUKE, who I will not compare to animals out of respect for the animals.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: \"><span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: right\" title=\"15CPUKE\" alt=\"15CPUKE\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/15CPUKE.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"360\" \/>The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) bills itself as an event convened to &quot;crystallize the best of the conservative thought in America&quot; that will showcase &quot;all of the leading conservative organizations and speakers.&quot; Media covering CPAC 2013 should know that the conference&#8217;s speakers, from the most prominent to the lesser-known, have a history of launching smears, pushing conspiracy theories, and hyping myths about the validity of President Obama&#8217;s birth certificate. <\/em><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><span><font style=\"font-size: 16pt\"><strong>CPAC 2013: A Rogue&#8217;s Gallery Of Smear Merchants &#8230;<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><span><font style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong>Ann Coulter, Conservative Author<\/strong><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><span><strong><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: inline; float: left\" title=\"Coultergeist\" alt=\"Coultergeist\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Coultergeist.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"374\" \/>Coulter: Bill Clinton &quot;Was A Very Good Rapist.&quot;<\/font><\/strong><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> During an interview with the <span><em>New York Observer<\/em><\/span>, Coulter responded to the question, &quot;What should we remember about Bill Clinton?&quot; by saying, &quot;Well, he was a very good rapist. I think that should not be forgotten.&quot; [<span><em>Media Matters<\/em><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2005\/01\/12\/ann-coulter-bill-clinton-was-a-very-good-rapist\/132567\" target=\"_blank\">1\/12\/05<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>]<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><span><strong><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Coulter Attacked 9\/11 Widows.<\/font><\/strong><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> In her book <span><em>Godless<\/em><\/span>, Coulter wrote of the women left widowed by the 9\/11 attacks: &quot;These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzis. I&#8217;ve never seen people enjoying their husbands&#8217; deaths so much.&quot; In a subsequent interview, she referred to the 9\/11 widows as &quot;cruel.&quot; [<span><em>Media Matters<\/em><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2006\/06\/08\/oreilly-coulter-has-valid-point-about-9-11-wido\/135911#20060714\" target=\"_blank\">6\/8\/06<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2006\/07\/14\/interviewed-yet-again-on-msnbcnbc-coulter-attac\/136178\" target=\"_blank\">7\/14\/06<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>]<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">&#160;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: normal; margin: 0in; font-family: \"><span><strong><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\">At 2007 CPAC, Coulter Referred To John Edwards As A &quot;Faggot.&quot;<\/font><\/strong><\/span><font style=\"font-size: 12pt\"> During CPAC in 2007, Coulter said she couldn&#8217;t &quot;really talk about&quot; former Democratic presidential nominee John Edwards because &quot;you have to go into rehab if you use the word &#8216;faggot.&#8217; &quot; [<span><em>Media Matters<\/em><\/span>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2007\/06\/28\/coulter-defended-cpac-comment-about-edwards-i-w\/139208\" target=\"_blank\">6\/28\/07<\/a><font color=\"#0066cc\"><\/font>]\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/research\/2013\/03\/13\/what-the-media-need-to-know-about-cpac-2013\/193039\" target=\"_blank\">Media Matters<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Now, I have provided only the material on the Coultergeist.&#160; Click through for the rest of the asylum.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Both Ed Schultz and Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell shared the highlights of day one.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Ed discussed them with Howard Fineman.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc8d9df1\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"launch=51187596^0^474708&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc8d9df1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=51187596^0^474708&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">They knew that the camera was on them, but the were too stupid to care.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Lawrence&#8217;s panel included Anna Marie Cox, Alex Wagner and Ari Melber.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><object width=\"592\" height=\"346\" id=\"msnbc32796a\" classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" target=\"_blank\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\"><param name=\"movie\" target=\"_blank\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=51187071^0^791592&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc32796a\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"592\" height=\"346\" FlashVars=\"launch=51187071^0^791592&amp;width=592&amp;height=346\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: 592px; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; color: #999; font-size: 11px\">Visit NBCNews.com for <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a>, <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032507\" target=\"_blank\">world news<\/a>, and <a style=\"border-bottom: #999 1px dotted; height: 13px; color: #5799db !important; font-weight: normal !important; text-decoration: none !important\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032072\" target=\"_blank\">news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republicans have an excellent reason to fear that America will define them with Romney&#8217;s 47% remark. It does define them. As expected they offered all hype and no policy.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The one good thing is that it\u2019s good for the economy.&#160; No doubt hookers are cleaning up from the family values trade.&#160; I\u2019m sure there\u2019s more to come.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keep your kids inside, and make your dawgs wear chastity belts!&#160; The craziest of the crazy are now running wild, mindlessly drunk on InsaniTEA.&#160; At a zoo, one can normally find a guide to help you understand the animals there, and I have found a guide to the Republicans at CPUKE, who I will not <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/15\/introducing-cpuke\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}