CPAC Talking Points Leaked: Instructed Staff to Lie About Stolen Geller Panel

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CPAC issued “talking points” on how to deal with the fallout from the cancellation and subsequent hijacking of my CPAC panel on free speech:

Email reveals CPAC talking points on its most controversial speakers

by Emily Jashinsky | Washington Examiner:

In the eve of its annual Conservative Political Action Conference, American Conservative Union staff circulated internal talking points that addressed questions swirling around two controversial speakers and one conference sponsor.

According to an email obtained by the Washington Examiner, ACU Finance Director Ryan McGowan sent an email just before 6 p.m. Wednesday evening that read, “ACU Comms wanted to share with you the following talking points if you are approached by the media.”

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The body of the email, pasted below, addressed speakers French politician Marion Marechal-Le Pen and former Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke, as well as sponsoring organization the American Principles Project, each of which has drawn criticism from conservatives, and liberals, rankled by CPAC’s decision to give them a platform.
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The full talking points are included below:

[….]

American Principles Project

CPAC sponsor APP is hosting a panel discussion on conservative voices being silenced on the internet. APP invited Pamela Geller to participate on the panel. She initially accepted but she then made her participation contingent on APP including another person who was obviously a poor choice. Pamela is actively promoting a version of events that are intentionally inaccurate designed to mislead and mischaracterize the construction of this presentation. She is no longer a participant, her claims that the panel is cancelled are false and the panel will move forward as intended.

This is patently false. CPAC officials have apparently instructed the American Conservative Union staff to lie and cover up their brutish censorship tactics. I organized this panel. I spent months pursing CPAC leadership: Matt Schlapp, chairman of the American Conservative Union, and Dan Schneider, Executive Director of the American Conservative Union (ACU). Emails to and from Matt Schlapp and Dan Schneider:

Here is the panel proposal I sent:

Note that the panelists I proposed include all of those who are speaking at what is now being presented as an APP event at which I was invited to speak. The title of that panel is “Suppression of Conservative Views on Social Media: A First Amendment Issue.” That’s exactly the same title of the panel proposal I sent to Schneider and Schlapp on February 14.

I advised Matt Schlapp months ago that I was willing to pay the full price for ta CPAC sponsorship in order to get the room. CPAC didn’t allow that, but months later they did come up with an alternative plan – and then put numerous obstacles in our way, finally pulling the plug altogether.

The deal they ultimately offered me came with a number of strings attached. One of their ACU sponsors, the American Principles Project (APP), had a room they weren’t using and would let us use it. But even then, this would not have been an event sponsored by AFDI. CPAC wouldn’t allow that. Instead, they said that my event had to be sponsored by the APP, a group I had never heard of.

 

 

I have many, many more emails and of course, the phone conversations.  It was as AFDI panel.

I had to cut the panel down to almost half.  So I looked for duplication. David Yerushalmi and Robert Muise (AFLC, my legal team on at least ten cases) were redundant to Harmeet Dhillon (I thought a fresh face on my panel would be an interesting change). And Robert Spencer and Raheem Kassam’s stories were much like mine. Redundancies there as well.

I wanted at first to feature some fresh faces who had not spoken at our earlier free speech events – to broaden the circle. But I am confident that if Spencer, Muise and Yerushalmi had remained on the panel, they would not have consented to its theft by CPAC.

It was signed off and approved by CPAC and Schilling. The final panel which was signed off and approved was Pamela Geller, Jim Hoft, James Damore, Harmeet Dhillon, Dan Gainor, and James O’Keefe. The announcement was made at Breitbart after the approvals went through.

Money quote from my first conversation with Schilling from Monday after our e-intro. Actual quotes:

I asked, “Are you going to be there?”

Schilling: “I could be there and do the intro or something. I don’t have the expertise, I couldn’t do the panel.”

Now the APP says they’re organizing the panel anyway, without either me or Hoft. They go even farther in the Examiner, claiming they organized the panel and invited me. In reality, as these email exchanges show, I organized the panel and gave it its focus, title, and speakers; the APP had no hand in what they are now claiming to have originated.

 

This is the height of irony (as well as theft): a panel on free speech from which not one, but two speakers have been banned. How can they claim to stand for free speech after dropping a speaker because of pressure from the authoritarian left? What value can a free speech panel have when two free speech leaders were banned from that panel?

The panel is now bitterly ironic. Social media censorship discussed in a heavily censored event.

https://twitter.com/PamelaGeller/status/966754698001870848

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Phil McDonald
Phil McDonald
6 years ago

Disgusting. I fear that most RINO’s are still reeling over the election.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

What is is also a problem is the Liberals are removing important links to stories that put the left in bad light.These few of many links seem dead.

With YouTube, I find more documentaries also taken down relating to history.

Court Documents Show Mueller Involved in 9/11 Cover-up
https://www.thenewamerican.com/…/28143-court-documents-show-mueller-involved-

JUDICIAL WATCH: Robert Mueller Helped Cover Up Connections https://www.dailywire.com/…/judicial-watch-robert-mueller-helped-cover-amanda-pre

As FBI Chief, Special Counsel Robert Mueller Watched and Allowed
https://www.theepochtimes.com/as-fbi-chief-special-counsel-robert-mueller-watched-a

Key conservative: Mueller in a ‘precarious position’ over Uranium One …
http://thehill.com/…/359732-key-conservative-mueller-in-a-precarious-position-over-uraniu

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
6 years ago

Updated

As FBI Director Mueller Helped Cover Up Fla. 9/11 … – Judicial Watch
https://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2018/01/fbi-director-mueller-helped-cover-fla-9-11-probe-court-docs-show/

Jan 23, 2018 – Court documents recently filed by the government further rock the credibility of Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller because they show that as FBI Director Mueller he worked to cover up the connection between a Florida Saudi family and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The documents reveal that Mueller was …
Did Mueller Coverup 9/11 Saudi Connection? | The Daily Caller
http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/23/mueller-9-11-saudi-cover-up/

Jan 23, 2018 – Court documents obtained by Judicial Watch show that as FBI director, Mueller was “likely involved” in releasing deceptive agency statements to cover up a connection between a Saudi Arabian family living in Florida and the 9/11 hijackers. The statements were tailored to discredit a 2011 story exposing an …
As FBI Director Mueller Helped Cover Up Fla. 9/11 Probe … – Infowars
https://www.infowars.com/as-fbi-director-mueller-helped-cover-up-fla-9-11-probe-court-docs-show/

Jan 24, 2018 – Court documents recently filed by the government further rock the credibility of Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller because they show that as FBI Director Mueller he worked to cover up the connection between a Florida Saudi family and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The documents reveal that Mueller was …
JUDICIAL WATCH: Robert Mueller Helped Cover Up Connections …

https://www.dailywire.com/news/26329/judicial-watch-robert-mueller-helped-cover-amanda-prestigiacomo
Jan 25, 2018 – A report from Judicial Watch claims newly-filed court documents further damage the credibility of Russia Special Counsel Robert Mueller. According to the conservative watchdog group, FBI Director Mueller likely “worked to cover up the connection between a Florida Saudi family and the 9/11 terrorist …

TDD
TD
6 years ago

Everyone is distracted with GUN CONTROL and FAKE RUSSIA COLLUSION and not talking about ORGANIZED TERRORISM.

So I wonder if they will even have any anti-terror guests at CPAC like Ms. Geller!

TDD
TD
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

In 1999, Columbine/Gun Control was the top security issue.

Then in 2001, 9/11 happened where 3000 people died because of RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS who didn’t use any guns; and liberals didn’t know what narrative to preach!

Awesome speech at CPAC
Awesome speech at CPAC
6 years ago
Reply to  TD

Yes, they did have an anti-terror guest at CPAC, as you can see in this 9 minute video of one of the most beautiful women in the world – right up there with Pamela. 😉 She does talk about the invasion of rapefugees.

Marion Maréchal-Le Pen Full Speech CPAC 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn80bxXr8eQ

Anneke9
Anneke9
6 years ago

After what CPAC has done to you and Robert Spencer in the past why would you trust them? I sure wouldn’t.

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

No, that would be Terry Schilling – my first thought was also Curt.

Emmett
Emmett
6 years ago

Hopefully the moslem brother, GROVER will go jihad on his good buddies at SUCKBOOK AND TWIRKER and other sTALINIST garbage scum ! THE ONLY GOOD sTALINIST( democrat ) IS A DEAD DEMOCRAT !

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

cpac, scum on the surface of the swamp.

Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
Investigate Gov Corruption NOW
6 years ago

The cover up is always worse than the original crime.

Suresh
Suresh
6 years ago

RINO’s/Dems Like facebook , twitter, even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs

To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris

They are either funded(muslims holding stake in their company) or paid Millions to shill for Islam and run down/smear those who oppose Islam.

And conservatives don’t want to fund the alternative media, nor unite to pursue the issue politically or legally then act surprised their First amendment is not getting up and fighting for them !

mezcukor
mezcukor
6 years ago
Reply to  Suresh

Thank you Suresh. You are always the voice of reason and truth

Thomas Faddis
Thomas Faddis
6 years ago

They did, at least, PROVE Your point beyond a shadow of a doubt, lol! Pusillanimous scumbags!

None of your Business
None of your Business
6 years ago
Reply to  Thomas Faddis

I upvoted you for the use of “pusillanimous.” Excellent choice of word.

Leonard Pailet
Leonard Pailet
6 years ago

Thank you for your continued bravery, We continue to survive because of people such as you. Your documentation will be a gift to the future as well as an aid to the present.

Dagonet
Dagonet
6 years ago

So, Pamela was going to speak and now she’s not? How did she NOT get played? She needs to speak, and she needs to speak up now. Only SHE can lead her life, her destiny. It’s no secret, the Left will attack, lie, and bait, in order to destroy their enemies. How can you not see this, how can you not fight back?

AeroLog
AeroLog
6 years ago
Reply to  Dagonet

Communist democrats are trying to take away Constitutional Rights, the Second amendment specifically.
How can you not see this, how can you not fight back?

Bs M
Bs M
6 years ago

No, they are worse then the democrats because they ‘pretend’ to be a friend of real conservatives. They are self serving Judases.

Steve
Steve
6 years ago
Reply to  Bs M

The problem is not everyone knows who is their friend and when someone says conservative it sometimes is like the ones who say they are christian like putting on a coat.

Kalambong Kalambong
Kalambong Kalambong
6 years ago
Reply to  Bs M

They are highly trained moles, backed and paid for by George Soros, to infiltrate and to create havoc inside the Conservative Community

With George Soros’ help, those creeps often come with pristine backgrounds, well-linked and well-connected all around

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

What a bunch of ucking PHONIES you have up there. The little BOY’S club. Still behaving like teens up there. Never grew up. The FATHERLESS MORONS!!

From the Nerogro sodomite to Justin Trudeau (and his silly India costumes) to Angela Murky who just introduced us to her “butch”.

Political_qrm
Political_qrm
6 years ago

I gave up on CPAC and the Conservative Union years ago. The GOP elites have infiltrated and do everything they can to subvert the truth on subjects.. They keep just enough of a veneer of conservatism to get by public scrutiny..

Mark Huber
Mark Huber
6 years ago

Keep telling the truth, Pamela. We support you. CPAC has always been a little contrived side show anyway…

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
6 years ago

One of the ‘yuge’ benefits of the Trump-era …

We can finally talk about the ACTUAL problems in the ACTUAL ‘conservative’ movement – rather than defending everyone who is one step to the right of Mao from the charges of ‘HITTLLLERRR!!!’

The pro-American and pro-West movement has been riddled with fakes for decades – thanks largely to donors, an organized Left vs. an ignorant and apathetic ‘Right,’ and strong opposition against pro-American, citizen candidates from the Establishment Uniparty (really the powers that be behind the GOP throne).

And as an aside – this window will be brief. If we lose the House in 2018, the Leftists will likely resume their agenda no matter what happens in the WH. The ‘power’ in the Swamp obviously has little to do with their own rules – and the Constitution is hardly more than a used Kleenex except to PROTECT actual criminals the Left wants to cover for.

TPtomCat78
TPtomCat78
6 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Thanks Dan for the upvotes and follow.

wpjokari
wpjokari
6 years ago

moral bankruptcy rampant in the West.
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/missouri-governor-indicted-for-felony-invasion-of-privacy-2018-02-22?mod=fark

tuesday, chris stirewalt (pilsbury dough boy) on Fox shannon bream, gloated, “There was no bumpstock coalition” (pffft) to push back…this bumpstock ban was a slam dunk politically and why hadn’t Trump done it sooner with white suburban women a serious voting deficit for the GOP.
This was a shocking watershed moment, to see that our Constitution, American Way of life, truth, justice, all come down to the largest/most powerful special interest group constituency. The matter of factness was gobstopping, with shannon bream smiling like a robot, and no serious response.

satcatchet
satcatchet
6 years ago

CPAC, a diversion from the truth.

Dave
Dave
6 years ago

Schneider, Shilling, and Schlapp: shitheads and shysters. CPAC is now a cesspool of elites and wannabes. I can’t believe who is on their speakers list! Huge disappointment.

Jackie
Jackie
6 years ago

People banned on YouTube and Twitter: David Seaman, Mr Green of Antischool, Milo, Stone, Infowars, Mr Sather of Destroying the Illusion, James Dalamore. This Is HUGE. CPAC is fuddy duddy un modern. Eff the loser RINOS – points directly at Romney!

Msgtdubb
Msgtdubb
6 years ago

If we are to save America for free people, We MUST, remove every rino and wishy washy establishment republican and replace them with true conservatives. They must pledge to follow President Trump and sign on to his agenda.

Tom Validakis
Tom Validakis
6 years ago

#DRAINTHESWAMP
google is a major sponsor of CPAC
Considering googles track record on nazi style censorship, it’s no wonder it got to this.

https://youtu.be/kzxfuYj77d0

Christian Gains
Christian Gains
6 years ago

Sadly, I FIRST must agree with Zac Cashman…There’s ONLY ONE PARTY in America, the “POWER/CONTROL PARTY”…Which trades leadership relative to their NEEDS for the time…ALL dissenting voices are marginalized OR silenced…

“For the betterment of our National security” of COURSE! We can’t have “hot heads” spewing ANTI-“PCP” doctrines, as it COULD divide, OR confuse, the G.P.; and THAT wouldn’t be fair, now WOULD IT? {stated in a condescending manner}…

Sorry to say that the CONSTITUTION is NO LONGER the “LAW of this LAND”…It’s simply a Parchment Document encased in a climate controlled case…These days there is a NEED for MORE “modern thinking”…Change is “in the air” and WE MUST ALL adapt with the change!….You UNDERSTAND of COURSE!….[stated firmly]….
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Please forgive my sarcasm, but I’ve LOST my respect for this Governmental System that the “PCP” has established over the last 100+ years…SOOOoooooo I’ll just have to disengage from the “PARTY”, and simply live my life FREE of such mendacious and malicious intent of CONTROL by POWER…where “MIGHT IS RIGHT”…OR…”POWER PROVIDES” is the latest POLITICAL FLAVOR!

It SEEMS to me that such illusionary Orgs, as CPAC are a waste of my time…I’d rather simply a group of free thinkers meet in a park, and share their visions, thoughts, and hopes…I’m CERTAIN that such a meeting will ACTUALLY PRODUCE viable ideas that COULD, {IF EVER allowed to be spoken…OR…written…OR…our god FORBID!…ACTUALLY shared on the INTERNET!!!…OMG!!}, create a BETTER world than this “MATRIX”….

felix1999
felix1999
6 years ago

This is just a back patting establishment get together.
Notice how they invited NATIONAL REVIEW speakers… and other ANTI-TRUMP people and there was APPLAUSE for them. Off how they have TOLERANCE for them but not for Ms. Gellers choice of a panelist.

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