Salon.com: “Moments that will be awkward”: Right-wing lunatics gun for Jeb at nutty confab
http://www.salon.com/2015/02/25/coming_to_this_weeks_cpac_carnival_awkward_qa_sessions/
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The frigid Washington, D.C., metropolitan area is going to get a blast of hot air this week as the annual Conservative Political Action Conference begins. This is the big one, where every conservative entertainer/politician descends on the fake shopping town of National Harbor, Maryland, to give the same speech about how Barack Obama sucks. Hundreds and hundreds of pathetic political reporters, myself included, inexplicably make the choice to go cover it year after year instead of just watching it on CSPAN, because sometimes there are weird parties afterward. On the last day there is a straw poll that Rand Paul wins.
Over three days, 75 or a million or so jokers all get up and give the exact same speech. They open with the same joke. Some years its about teleprompters, because Barack Obama frequently uses teleprompters during his speeches. One year it was about how the White House was cutting back on public tours, because that three-day news cycle happened to overlap with the conference; another time it was something about how the IRS was auditing conservatives in attendance. This year Im guessing The Joke will incorporate as source material Barack Obamas reluctance to use the term Islamic terrorism. The rest of the speech will also be about Barack Obamas reluctance to use the term Islamic terrorism. This is the speech that everyone will give.
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