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The Anti-Semites Who Swarmed Us at CPAC and the Future of the Right
by David Swindle - NICE JEW NAME
Posted on February 17 2011 3:20 pm
David Swindle is the Managing Editor of NewsReal Blog and the Associate Editor of FrontPage Magazine. Follow him on Twitter here
The initial idea with the Freedom Center sending me out to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was so that I could network with other bloggers and organizations, recruit new writers for NewsReal Blog, and so that I could cover the conference (and what would be David Horowitz’s neutron bomb of a speech) for our publications. Parts one and two of that plan went along well enough, but part three — actually attending the speeches and panels — had to be dropped from my agenda when I realized what the situation was going to be for my co-workers. It became clear where I was needed most: at our booth in the exhibition hall.
My colleague Jeff Wienir, our Director of Campus Campaigns, had arrived at CPAC a day before me to set up our area, including the Palestinian Wall of Lies, an 8′ by 8′ banner that will be sent out to student groups all over the country this spring. The Wall is our attempt to counter the anti-Israel “Apartheid walls” built every year on college campuses by leftist students groups and the Muslim Students Association (a Muslim Brotherhood front group if you weren’t already aware.) The plan was for him and Sara Dogan, our National Campus Director, to present the wall to thestudents and find more who would be interested in using it to combat the leftists and stealth jihadis on their campuses.
The problem we did not think of to anticipate: a vocal (though, thankfully statistically small) segment of the students at CPAC — and the adult participants too — are hostile to this mission.
Not realizing yet it would be necessary to help at the booth, on Thursday morning I took a brief break to go and meet some friendly faces from the blogosphere. Up at the Blogger’s Lounge I ran into wonderful people like Right Wing News editor/publisher John Hawkins, prominent blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, talented video master Lee Doren, and Mr. Hot Air himself Ed Morrissey. (I’d meet many more later that night at the delightful Blog Bash party thrown by Freedom Works’ Tabitha Hale and Liberty Pundits‘ Melissa Clouthier.)
When I returned Jeff gave me a startling report. At the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) booth two slots down from us a man had objected to the organization and said that “the Jews are the most oppressive people on the planet.”
As young people started flowing in as less-interesting speakers took the main stage Sara, Jeff and I started pitching the Wall of Lies tostudents walking through our row. Some responded in a cold, disinterested fashion, saying that they “didn’t believe in foreign aid” and others suggesting that perhaps our support of Israel was exacerbating the conflict and that if we just got out then perhaps the tensions would ease. Jeff, Sara and I deced on a new strategy: ”Let’s not even bother to pitch the campaign to anystudents wearing Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul, or Anti-War.Com buttons, stickers, or T-shirts.”
At one point later in the morning Seth Mandel, NewsReal Blog‘s associate editor in charge of our Right to Exist sub-blog came down to meet us and see the wall. His timing was fortuitous. Shortly after he came for his visit we were confronted by a man in his mid-to-late 20s — about our age — who was walking around with a stack of the paleo-conservative magazine The American Conservative, the barely-read rag founded by the infamous anti-Semite Pat Buchanan. (To see just how unpopular the publication is note its ranking as #100 on the list of top 100 conservative websites — easily beaten by many noted solo bloggers.) Seth’s exchange with him got so in depth and heated that they eventually walked away from our booth to continue it for almost an hour. As their debate drew out I walked over to the two of them with my video camera and asked if perhaps they might talk a little bit on film. The Buchananite refused before saying a few choice words about how horrible our boss David Horowitz was. I asked him if he had ever read a single of David’s books. He admitted that he had not and had only read articles. When I pointed out the genocidal nature of our Islamist opponents the Buchananite countered by highlighting our own alleged history of genocide. I called him out for using arguments popularized by the neo-communist propagandist Howard Zinn. When the young man with his stack of magazines declared Zinn a historian worth reading finally I said, “You know it’s really pretty pointless for us to even talk.” He immediately agreed, took that as his cue to exit, and dashed out of the exhibition hall.
The rest.
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/17/the-anti-semites-who-swarmed-us-at-cpac-and-the-future-of-the-right/
The Anti-Semites Who Swarmed Us at CPAC and the Future of the Right
by David Swindle - NICE JEW NAME
Posted on February 17 2011 3:20 pm
David Swindle is the Managing Editor of NewsReal Blog and the Associate Editor of FrontPage Magazine. Follow him on Twitter here
The initial idea with the Freedom Center sending me out to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was so that I could network with other bloggers and organizations, recruit new writers for NewsReal Blog, and so that I could cover the conference (and what would be David Horowitz’s neutron bomb of a speech) for our publications. Parts one and two of that plan went along well enough, but part three — actually attending the speeches and panels — had to be dropped from my agenda when I realized what the situation was going to be for my co-workers. It became clear where I was needed most: at our booth in the exhibition hall.
My colleague Jeff Wienir, our Director of Campus Campaigns, had arrived at CPAC a day before me to set up our area, including the Palestinian Wall of Lies, an 8′ by 8′ banner that will be sent out to student groups all over the country this spring. The Wall is our attempt to counter the anti-Israel “Apartheid walls” built every year on college campuses by leftist students groups and the Muslim Students Association (a Muslim Brotherhood front group if you weren’t already aware.) The plan was for him and Sara Dogan, our National Campus Director, to present the wall to thestudents and find more who would be interested in using it to combat the leftists and stealth jihadis on their campuses.
The problem we did not think of to anticipate: a vocal (though, thankfully statistically small) segment of the students at CPAC — and the adult participants too — are hostile to this mission.
Not realizing yet it would be necessary to help at the booth, on Thursday morning I took a brief break to go and meet some friendly faces from the blogosphere. Up at the Blogger’s Lounge I ran into wonderful people like Right Wing News editor/publisher John Hawkins, prominent blogger Jim Hoft of Gateway Pundit, talented video master Lee Doren, and Mr. Hot Air himself Ed Morrissey. (I’d meet many more later that night at the delightful Blog Bash party thrown by Freedom Works’ Tabitha Hale and Liberty Pundits‘ Melissa Clouthier.)
When I returned Jeff gave me a startling report. At the Christians United for Israel (CUFI) booth two slots down from us a man had objected to the organization and said that “the Jews are the most oppressive people on the planet.”
As young people started flowing in as less-interesting speakers took the main stage Sara, Jeff and I started pitching the Wall of Lies tostudents walking through our row. Some responded in a cold, disinterested fashion, saying that they “didn’t believe in foreign aid” and others suggesting that perhaps our support of Israel was exacerbating the conflict and that if we just got out then perhaps the tensions would ease. Jeff, Sara and I deced on a new strategy: ”Let’s not even bother to pitch the campaign to anystudents wearing Campaign for Liberty, Ron Paul, or Anti-War.Com buttons, stickers, or T-shirts.”
At one point later in the morning Seth Mandel, NewsReal Blog‘s associate editor in charge of our Right to Exist sub-blog came down to meet us and see the wall. His timing was fortuitous. Shortly after he came for his visit we were confronted by a man in his mid-to-late 20s — about our age — who was walking around with a stack of the paleo-conservative magazine The American Conservative, the barely-read rag founded by the infamous anti-Semite Pat Buchanan. (To see just how unpopular the publication is note its ranking as #100 on the list of top 100 conservative websites — easily beaten by many noted solo bloggers.) Seth’s exchange with him got so in depth and heated that they eventually walked away from our booth to continue it for almost an hour. As their debate drew out I walked over to the two of them with my video camera and asked if perhaps they might talk a little bit on film. The Buchananite refused before saying a few choice words about how horrible our boss David Horowitz was. I asked him if he had ever read a single of David’s books. He admitted that he had not and had only read articles. When I pointed out the genocidal nature of our Islamist opponents the Buchananite countered by highlighting our own alleged history of genocide. I called him out for using arguments popularized by the neo-communist propagandist Howard Zinn. When the young man with his stack of magazines declared Zinn a historian worth reading finally I said, “You know it’s really pretty pointless for us to even talk.” He immediately agreed, took that as his cue to exit, and dashed out of the exhibition hall.
The rest.
http://www.newsrealblog.com/2011/02/17/the-anti-semites-who-swarmed-us-at-cpac-and-the-future-of-the-right/