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Related: About this forumAnti-Muslim activist Pam Geller turned away from CPAC... and blames Grover Norquist?
Newsmax columnist says she's not welcome at this year's conservative confab... and blames Grover Norquist?
BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD
Anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller has been turned away from the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), despite speaking at the event for the past four years, she says. This year, I applied to speak and was ignored, she wrote on her blog. So, for the first time in five years, I wont be at CPAC.
CPAC is the largest annual gathering of conservatives in the country, and one of the few places where conservative politicians, movement leaders, media personalities, and big donors all come together under one roof. But it is no stranger to civil warring and backbiting over snubbed invitations. This year, it barred gay groups and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.
And its also not the first time the conservative leaders who control CPAC have tried to keep the unseemly anti-Muslim fringe out of view. In 2010, as I reported, the organization banned Frank Gaffney, the man behind Rep. Michele Bachmanns anti-Muslim witch hunt, who had accused GOP activists Grover Norquist and Suhail Khan of being agents for the Muslim Brotherhood. A year later, the board of the group that runs CPAC passed a unanimous resolution condemning Gaffney.
Now, it seems to have caught up to Geller. She blamed the snub on the Grover Norquist/Suhail Khan cabal, noting she had written several critical stories about Norquist. As soon as I published my Newsmax column concerning his perfidious influence at CPAC, my Newsmax column was taken down and my name and picture were removed from the Newsmax page it was two slots away from Grovers. My weekly column never appeared at Newsmax again. It was axed, she alleged.
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Anti-Muslim activist Pam Geller turned away from CPAC... and blames Grover Norquist? (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2013
OP
She accuses one of the most prominent conservatives of 'perfidious influence' over a conference
muriel_volestrangler
Mar 2013
#4
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)1. Pam Geller was axed
How's that for a teaser headline?
JHB
(37,161 posts)3. At Last, Snubbed
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)2. we need a nelson muntz HA-HA here
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)4. She accuses one of the most prominent conservatives of 'perfidious influence' over a conference
and she's surprised the conference didn't invite her to speak? There's a silver lining here: these wingnuts don't just assume they have privilege over minorities or liberals; they think they have privilege everywhere. She just can't understand why saying to an organisation "this man has a bad influence over you" doesn't result in them offering her some money to speak.