Why does CPAC get so much gawd damned coverage

[malaise]

while we don't get any from progressive conferences

[KamaAina]

1. Do we have any progressive conferences?

[msongs]

14. only conferences showing the progress from left to center to right of center lol nt

[KamaAina]

16. Well, why don't we?

Why not a PPAC with Bernie, Elizabeth, Keith Ellison, Emanuel Cleaver, Rachel and so on?

[brooklynite]

19. You mean Netroots Nation?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netroots_Nation#2007

"Netroots Nation 2014 was held at Cobo Center in Detroit, Michigan on July 17–21, 2014. Keynote speakers included Senator Elizabeth Warren, Vice-President Joe Biden and Rev. Dr. William Barber II."

[KamaAina]

20. There you go!

And that bears out the OP's thesis: it did not get nearly this kind of media lovefest.

[brooklynite]

22. Please see my #18

[ananda]

28. How about a WLPAC

Way Liberal PAC

[randys1]

2. Clown car, mainly. The media isnt used to that many stupid people in positions of authority

Baggers are dumb and make good tv.

Right here at DU we are told that those folk at CPAC are JUST FINE though, you do know that, right?

[arcane1]

26. More lies about DUers

Why do you keep lying about DUers and trying to make them look bad?

You said:

Right here at DU we are told that those folk at CPAC are JUST FINE.

Prove it. Put up or shut up.

[randys1]

27. They MUST be fine with someone who says there is so little difference in the parties they wont

vote for either party.

I dont care if you like to say shut up to people, but no, I will NEVER shut up,
you can try and shut me up, in fact I am sure you will try

[arcane1]

29. Once again, you have nothing to back up your lies about your fellow DUers.

Why would I shut you up, when you're so amusing?

[randys1]

31. Hundreds of posts all day everyday, DU is infested with the garbage

If Karl Rove paid for this kind of fucking propaganda he couldnt do better.

Keep laughing, I will keep working to help people vote, something some here think is a waste of time.

[arcane1]

34. Show me one of these posts. It should be easy.

At the moment, the only person on DU that says "CPAC is OK" is you. What does that say?

[Scootaloo]

35. Hundreds of posts, with you catching them all. Ought to be easy to back it up

C'mon Randy. I wanna use up an entire package of paper printing out these "hundreds of posts per day"

[randys1]

36. There are too many, just saw where someone called Hillary Killery...jury decided it was appropriate

This is almost repubican underground now

And no, I wont play that silly game of linking you to any of the hundreds of posts alleging that there is so little difference in the parties that if Hillary is the candidate it is a waste of time

they are everywhere and to deny it is dishonest

are you dishonest?

[Scootaloo]

42. You know, it's funny...

I just ran "Killery" through Du's search function, since you declined to provide a link. Know what I found? I found your post here, an OP by Cali_Democrat making the same claim, also without a link, and a scattering of posts from 2008. I found like five posts from 2013-14 with "killary" on the off chance you misspelled.

Now. This makes two times on one thread you have made a pretty big claim without backing it up. I'm not calling you a liar, but I would like to see you substantiate what you're saying, if you don't mind.

[randys1]

38. Please comment on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026289069#post1

you too arcane1

get on the record, as they say

[onehandle]

3. The same reason reality shows beat well-written scripted TV programs.

People like garbage.

[rickford66]

54. And train wrecks

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

4. People like political farce.

Except the people attending don't know it's farce.

[Agnosticsherbet]

5. Because there is no such thing as a left wing media.

[Takket]

9. Bingo

Nt

[malaise]

43. Thread winner

[DemocratSinceBirth]

6. Same reason as train wrecks do/NT

[Jamastiene]

7. Right now, they are getting their asses handed to them on Twitter.

They opened themselves up to it and progressives have had plenty of great questions to ask them. It is hilarious to read some of the Tweets to them:
If you search for #cpacq, the questions are coming more from people who are telling them how ignorant and corrupt they are.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%23cpacq&src=typd

[malaise]

51. Thanks

[spanone]

8. because right wing media rules / owns the airwaves.

you'd think it would expose their hatred and disregard for the american people.

guess not, they keep getting elected.

[geek tragedy]

10. CPAC is a clown car demolition derby.

The closest thing on the left--Netroots Nation--is mainly a networking event for the professional left who work for alt publications or are lobbyists etc. In other words, corporate and boring.

[donco]

11. Mostly because

people don't believe that some politicians are that damn stupid.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. How many and how much time and which networks?........ no tv .. but you know that.

it would be interesting to see a real time study on the media's propaganda pushing.

But we all know they pump the public and as

bush jr said


“See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda.”

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. I suspect that the more they are seen as the drooling lunatics they are may be a good thing.

Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

[louis-t]

15. CPAC is basically 'Hate Camp'.

That's what I call it anyway.

[Egnever]

17. Cause it is like a reality TV show

With all sorts of crazy to entertain the viewers with. Ours on the other hand are more policy wonk boring detail.

[brooklynite]

18. Simple answers that won't support your preferred stereotypes...

1. CPAC has been around for decades, so it's established in the minds of political reporters. By comparison, Netroots Nation has only been around since 2006.

2. For the past 7 years, Democrats have held the White House, so there's no progressive conference attracting potential Presidential candidates, which is the sole focus of news coverage that CPAC gets (seriously, name a CPAC workshop you've seen covered).

3. Quiet frankly, Republican candidates make for better copy than Democrats...

[JaneyVee]

21. 4. Comedy gold.

[appalachiablue]

57. I can see a Dem/Prog. conference with good comedy like John Oliver, Bill Maher, Chris Rock,

Lewis Black, Lee Camp, Stephanie Miller & John Fugelsang along with national, state & local pols like Sherrod Brown, Jeff Merkley, Keith Ellison, Al Franken, Sheldon Whitehouse, the Castros, Kirsten Gillibrand, Wendy Davis, Barbara Lee.
I saw the annual Netroots Nation conference on CSPAN once, probably summer 2012 in Colorado. It had a very good panel but low attendance judging from the scan of the audience. Joan Walsh of Salon, Ben Jealous of the NAACP, Sen. Jeff Merkley (OR), maybe Bill McKibben were main speakers.
CPAC holds their conference every year I think in Washington DC which they hate and want to drown in the bathtub, up there in 'communist country' as Joe McCain, bro. of the Senator said in 2008.

[Scootaloo]

32. Ah yes, how DARE malaise have criticism of conservatives.

[malaise]

45. LOL

[Scootaloo]

46. Take your stereotypes and hie thee off, scoundrel!

I say, good day.

[malaise]

47. You should hear me laughing

It's a glorious evening in my part of the planet. I trust I find thee well

[Scootaloo]

48. ...ISAIDGOODDAY!

[steve2470]

40. better copy = more outrageous, emotional and stupid statements....

That's how I see their "copy". Granted, we progressives are not immune to all of those, but we're a lot more
prone to saying rational, well-thought out, fact-based, intelligent things.

[MineralMan]

23. Where else can you see a bunch of stoned semi-important

guys say really stupid things in front of a camera? It's the best comedy show on the tube.

[moondust]

24. Servants of The Oligarchy

paid well to cover servants of The Oligarchy.

[Fumesucker]

25. For the same reason five tea partiers can show up on a street corner and hit the cable news..

While a million people in the street to protest the Iraq War I had to see in a damn theater years later at a movie made by a guy a surprising number of DUers seem to loathe.

[Scootaloo]

30. It's the differece between WWE wrestling and olympic wrestling

Which one is more serious and worthy of consideration?

It's not the one that's more fun to watch.

[Politicalboi]

33. Because it's a freak show

With plenty of comedy gold.

[B Calm]

37. Corporate owned press loves their message.

[steve2470]

39. one reason this year is it's south of DC down the Potomac

https://www.google.com/maps/place/National+Harbor,+Fort+Washington,+MD/

[hughee99]

41. People like to watch people say and do stupid things. Isn't that why reality TV is so popular? n/t

[Oilwellian]

44. Just look at the attention it gets right here on DU! nt

[hifiguy]

49. Watching ClownPAC is like watching the Three Stooges play plumber

The fuckwittery, mental ineptitude and just plain good old fashioned stupidity is an endless source of amusement. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xfyfk9_the-three-stooges-a-plumbing-we-will-go_fun

[JHB]

50. A lot of it is "Legacy coverage"... and part is location...

When it was first started, CPAC was one of the major venues for forging and managing the conservative coalition from Reagan onward. For most of reporters' careers it was a "major political event" that deserved coverage, even as it drifted further and further into whackadoodlestan. Plus snubbing it would simply confirm conservatives neverending claim of "liberal media bias".

And let's not forget location. Location, location, location.

It's in Washington (or right across the river from it), where the political reporters are already located and it's convenient to get to. And it's there every year. It's easy, a "big story" for very little effort.

In comparison, Netroots Nation (originally named Yearly Kos) has been held at: Las Vegas, Chicago, Austin, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas again, Minneapolis, Providence, San Jose, and this year will be in Detroit. Various factors go into the decision of where to hold it, but one element that is not high on the selection criteria is making it no-brainer easy for lazy-ass Washington-based political reporters to go to.

[onecaliberal]

52. Because the corporate media loves them some

Confederate hating old white men.

[hatrack]

53. Because when the circus comes to town, EVERYONE wants to visit the Freak Show . . .

And now, thanks to the miracle of television, we can.

[Gothmog]

55. We like watching wild animals in their natural habitat

CPAC is a zoo of crazy people who are fun to watch and laugh at

[salin]

56. I think it plays like performance art - but its real. Rather like a train wrek.

Everything is taken to the extreme. There are always spectacle at CPAC. Not so much at progressive gatherings.