APP’s Schilling lies to CNN about cancellation of CPAC free speech panel

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“The thing that’s upsetting to me is that I did this directly with her. I was honest with her, I was direct with her,” Schilling said. “She decides to go to Breitbart on the radio this morning without even giving me a heads up.”

“It’s just crazy and it’s why conservatives lose,” he added. “It’s because they’re all about personalities.”

This is a lie. Schilling and I agreed to cancel the panel on a phone call I had with him last night. I told him on that same call that I had Breitbart in the morning to discuss the panel. In claiming he was blindsided by my announcing that the panel was canceled, he is lying outright.

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What’s more, he has appropriated, without asking me or consulting with me, the title and focus of my panel as I submitted it to CPAC, along with my speakers roster — minus Jim Hoft and me.

It’s bitterly ironic: a free speech from which two speakers have been banned. It shows what a travesty CPAC has become.

“Drama erupts at CPAC after panel told to drop speaker who attacked Florida shooting survivor,” by Oliver Darcy and Tom Kludt, CNN, February 21, 2018:

The Conservative Political Action Conference hasn’t even started and a snafu is once again stealing the limelight ahead of the annual event.

News of the last-minute chaos emerged on Wednesday morning when Pamela Geller, the radical anti-Muslim activist who was organizing a discussion on the “suppression of conservative views on social media,” canceled her event over being asked by the American Principles Project, the organization sponsoring the panel, to remove Jim Hoft as a speaker after he spread conspiracy theories about a student survivor of last week’s Florida shooting.

“APP made Hoft’s presence a make-or-break issue,” Geller said in an email to CNN. “I was not prepared to drop a speaker from a free speech panel because leftists have chosen him as their next target.”…

Hoft, the founder of the right-wing fringe website The Gateway Pundit, courted controversy earlier this week after his website attacked David Hogg, a student survivor of the Florida school shooting who has been calling for a national conversation on gun violence in television appearances in the wake of the February 14 massacre.

Lucian Wintrich, The Gateway Pundit’s White House correspondent, claimed in one story on Hoft’s far-right site that he had “exposed” Hogg, suggesting the student was running cover for the FBI because of his father’s previous employment as an agent at the bureau. The story declared, without real evidence, that Hogg “appears to have been coached on anti-Trump lines” and characterized him as “a pawn” of the media and “well-trained political operatives” for “anti-Trump rhetoric and anti-gun legislation.”

Despite the public’s outrage over the report, which was published on Monday, Wintrich defended his article in a statement to The Wrap, saying he had no reservations about it: “Native Americans are the only ones with reservations,” he told the website.

This is not the first time Hoft has drawn controversy. The Gateway Pundit is infamous for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories over the years.

Terry Schilling, executive director of the American Principle’s Project, told CNN he had contacted Geller on Tuesday night to tell her that, for such reasons, including Hoft would distract from the panel’s intent.

“Going after these kids is just completely unacceptable, and from my point of view, it was going to take over the media coverage of the panel,” Schilling said.

Geller responded by scrapping the entire panel.

Schilling said he resents how Geller handled the matter.

“The thing that’s upsetting to me is that I did this directly with her. I was honest with her, I was direct with her,” Schilling said. “She decides to go to Breitbart on the radio this morning without even giving me a heads up.”

“It’s just crazy and it’s why conservatives lose,” he added. “It’s because they’re all about personalities.”

The now-canceled social media censorship panel had been set to include a number of right-wing agitators including James O’Keefe, the guerrilla filmmaker. Also set to speak was Dan Gainor, vice president of the Media Research Center, an organization which says it exposes supposed liberal bias in media.

The event stirred buzz when it was announced earlier this week. One contingent of conservatives denounced the presence of figures like Hoft and Geller at CPAC, while others said they looked forward to the event. The far-right website Breitbart, for instance, which was previously headed by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, played it up as the lead story on the front homepage of its website. “Def a must-attend,” tweeted senior Breitbart editor Amanda House.

Hoft told CNN that he was “very disappointed” in the decision to bar him from the event. Despite the APP being responsible for the decision to prohibit him from the panel, Hoft cast blame on CPAC, accusing the organization of taking its “marching orders from Chelsea Clinton,” who had called out Hoft on Twitter for spreading conspiracy theories about Hogg.

“I hope fellow conservatives see the importance in discussing this issue without fear of consequence,” he said….

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Mariaca
Mariaca
6 years ago

Color me thoroughly confused now. Is the panel on, or not on? I’m sick and tired of every conservative event being canceled for spurious reasons.

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
6 years ago
Reply to  Mariaca

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RCCA
RCCA
6 years ago

I completely respect Pamela’s support for her friend, Jim Hoft, especially when he is under attack. She knows more than anyone what it is like to be defamed, marginalized, and rendered radioactive. How could she do that to one of her oldest supporters, just so she can have her CPAC panel on censorship, and have any self respect? Impossible.

As far as Schilling is concerned, he needs to realize that freedom of expression means allowing people to express themselves and not worrying about how someone else is going to react. You can’t be free and at the same time be constrained by fear over offending other people with your opinions, and you certainly can’t dictate what other people are allowed to say. He seems to be missing fundamental comprehension about what open communication and freedom are all about. Imagine the absurdity of complaining about someone banning your speech when you are doing the same thing to someone else? How dumb is that guy anyway? And then he’s mad because people know about him doing this? He not only wants to control what people say, he wants to control what people think. And this guy is running a panel? He should be on KP duty.

David Sinclair
David Sinclair
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

+++++++1

satcatchet
satcatchet
6 years ago
Reply to  RCCA

No, he should be keel hauled.

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
6 years ago

Ufking liar. Why would they lie like that?? This fatherless MORON has NO credibility. NO CREDIBILITY at all!!! Get his daddy to speak to the boy.

Dirt Doctor
Dirt Doctor
6 years ago

Get his daddy to whip his sorry a**!!
Shillings-you are a stinking useless LIAR!

Joy Daniels Brower
Joy Daniels Brower
6 years ago

I feel a bit like Mariaca (below), because I, too, was initially confused. But, as difficult as it must have been for her, Palm was absolutely correct to cancel the panel and totally distance herself from the crooked, foolish and corrupt CPAC! When I read that horseshit screed from CNN, I was infuriated as they hurled lies and insults at Jim Hoft and his VERY respectable – but, of course, outspoken! – website, Gateway Pundit, one of the oldest and most respected conservative websites around! The whole thing stinks, and I can only imagine Pam’s disappointment. Well, CPAC is just piling up one bad move after another and it wouldn’t surprise me to see it sink under the weight of its own corruption in future years. And, IMHO, that demise can’t come soon enough!

Dirt Doctor
Dirt Doctor
6 years ago

What the heck is YOUR problem with CPAC????? Stop listening & believing to all the lies you hear.

Joy Daniels Brower
Joy Daniels Brower
6 years ago
Reply to  Dirt Doctor

I’ve been “on the scene” (re Conservative politics & policies) for more than 50 years, and, in my day, knew personally many of the main characters. I was a real Conservative “groupie,” if such a label could be applied to a political junkie who happened to be a Conservative (and, for many years, a Libertarian) when the movement was much smaller. (E.g., 60 years ago I frolicked briefly with Barry Goldwater’s daughter, Peggy, in SoCal, where they spent summers away from super-hot Phoenix!) So, to answer your question (and I touched on this briefly in another post on this site earlier) to my so-called “problem with CPAC.” several years ago, when Pamela’s request to participate in and organize an independent panel at CPAC, she was denied (and/or in another season, assigned to a small room far from the main action), she reported to all of us that Grover Norquist (formerly of tax-reform “fame”) married a Muslim and converted to that delightful ROP; hence. ANY negative mention of Islam was verboten from that day hence at CPAC. Well, guess where that left Pam Geller? Anyway, I don’t know who the personnel who organize and run today’s CPAC, but it seems to me that they are just arms of the swamp and, indeed, elements of the RINO GOP Nat’l Committee. In a word, CPAC is still nominally “conservative,” but not Trump conservative (and I never thought I’d refer to Trump and conservatism in the same sentence!) But patriotic Republican conservatives are allying themselves more & more with, granted, the very unlikely – but turning out to be both reliable and admirable! – Donald Trump, former NYC liberal and Dem-supporter!! Go figure!

Halal Bacon
Halal Bacon
6 years ago

he looks like one of them Filipino lady-man male hookers

satcatchet
satcatchet
6 years ago

Terry Schilling at a young age in journalism your sure made your bed for your future. You will be forever be seen as a lier in anything you write,
poor fool.

Ron Cole
Ron Cole
6 years ago

Without Pamela Geller we would never be told about the leftist anti-American media, and its quest to destroy the Constitution..

Jackie Puppet
Jackie Puppet
6 years ago

“the right-wing fringe website The Gateway Pundit”

“The Gateway Pundit is infamous for spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories over the years.”

“…right-wing agitators including James O’Keefe, the guerrilla filmmaker…Media Research
Center, an organization which says it exposes supposed liberal bias in
media.”

And CNN can’t understand why they rightly get bashed as fake news…

Did Schilling run to CNN, or was it the other way around?

Mahou Shoujo
Mahou Shoujo
6 years ago

Schilling said. “She decides to go to Breitbart on the radio this morning without even giving me a heads up”.
Here, you want a head’s up, this one is appropriate for you and all you democrats.
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