Drama at Western CPAC 2009 Part 2 – Ed Morrissey ambushed on stage

by Infidelesto on October 19, 2009 · Comments

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Ok, so it wasn’t THAT dramatic, but the headline caught ya right?

Anyways, I was watching the “new media” panel Saturday afternoon with several bloggers up there speaking about blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and the role of new media in the political arena. One of the bloggers on the panel was Ed Morrissey of Hotair.com

It started out great with some excellent sound bites from Ed, Andrew Brietbart, Jim Hoft, Ed Driscoll, Stephen Kruiser and Mathew Cunningham all speaking on the role of new media.  Stephen Kruiser had just lit the room up with a combination of comedic energy and and a brief lesson about twitter to those who “don’t get it”.

Then it all got weird…

Chris Carmouche took his moment to criticize Ed Morrissey (who happened to be sitting right next to him) for a blog post Ed wrote earlier that morning taking Floyd Brown to task for promoting and pursuing the “Impeach Obama” rhetoric during a speech earlier that morning.  Ed wrote that he felt it was unhelpful and pointless for the conservative movement to promote the “impeach Obama” rhetoric.

Ed wrote in his post:

When the grassroots come together for events like Western CPAC, it usually brings together a great deal of energy as well as a wide idea of ideas, some better than others.  One of the worst — and worst defended — ideas at WCPAC comes from Floyd Brown, whose ImpeachObamaCampaign.com is one of the sponsors for this event.  In his speech this morning, Brown misstates history, draws ridiculous parallels to the Nazi era, and takes the wrong lessons from the Clinton impeachment, which at least had the virtue of coming from an actual impeachable offense.

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Pictured from Left to right: Ed Morrissey, Chris Carmouche, Andrew Brietbart, Jim Hoft

Pictured from Left to right: Ed Morrissey, Chris Carmouche, Andrew Brietbart, Jim Hoft

It wasn’t just that Chris Carmouche took his moment of glory on stage to rip his fellow panelist for “disagreeing” calling it the “height of rudeness to criticize your host” (referring to Floyd Brown), it was the fact that Chris Carmouche was not qualified to be on that panel (he doesn’t blog or twitter), not to mention he killed the energy of the room and overall message of the panel after the momentum had built up from those who were fully qualified to speak on panel.

Also, there are allegations that Chris Carmouche paid his way onto the panel.

He PAID his way onto the panel?…yea that was my reaction too.

I was told by sources working at the event that Chris Carmouche was allowed on the panel because of his financial contribution to the Western CPAC event. I don’t have any proof of this, but sources at the event confirmed my suspicions.

It seems the “pay for play” philosophy of David Keene has had a trickle down effect on those at the ACU.

The fact is that whether or not you agree with Ed, he has EVERY RIGHT to post his opinions on his blog. And to criticize Ed for criticizing a fellow conservative while saying we shouldn’t “criticize the host” seems rather ironic and hypocritical not to mention highly inappropriate considering that’s not why he was up there.  In addition, allowing an unqualified individual onto a “new media” panel is ridiculous. Whoever made the the decision to allow a paid sponsor of the event to speak on a panel in which he totally unqualified is also ridiculous and KILLS the credibility of the panel.  It also soured the mood and message from what was about to be the most powerful panel of the weekend.

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  • Bronwyn
    This article has made me consider the connection between Obama and Black Americans. What claim he has to the undying loyalty of Black Americans I will never know. Obama refuses the deliberate stimulation of free enterprise and the return to the disciplines of new ideas, risk, thriftiness and Christian values which alone could rebuild the economy of Black American people along with everyone else. There was once a viable and growing Black American middle class in the US. We have not yet in 2009 even equaled the number of Black American businesses that were present in the first half of the twentieth century. During this same time period the rate of divorce and out of wedlock birth was lower among Black Americans than the rest of the population, not higher. I need not mention that abortion was practically unheard of among us. One sees a remnant of that moral tradition in the fact that Black Americans in California refused to vote for granting the rights of marriage to homosexuals. I despise Obama's administration for continuing to offer the poison of dependence to a once proud people.

    My father used to sell lemons on the street corners to buy pencils for school. He grew up in the days of Jim Crow. He road in the back of the bus. He wanted to be a doctor. He had one teacher, a Jewish teacher as a matter of fact, who told him he could do it. She encouraged him, gave him extra work and called him doctor in the classroom. He and six of his classmates became doctors. He was one of the doctors in attendance in her last illlness. Dad was admitted to a major medical school long before anyone ever thought of affirmative action.When it was discovered that he was Black, they deferred his admission as it was their policy at the time to admit a Black student every other year. Dad had made it in an off year. He sent them a letter and told them to go to Hell. He went to a traditionally Black medical school and became a doctor. To get to that point he had worked like a man possessed. He worked as a caddy in the country club that does not admit blacks to this day. He served in the army in the Korean war. As the Lord would have it, he later taught medicine at the medical school that had deferred his admission. He had paid a high price He was a compulsive workaholic until the very end. He never lost his deep distrust of white people, though he functioned professionally among them and gave the same level of color blind, excellent care to all who came to him. He was fiercely independent. His strength was in God. His traditional Black Christian church preached the Bible. An ersatz Christian, who was really a Muslim in disguise, would not have been tolerated in his time. He would have been shown to the light or to the door. My father would take patients' calls and leave at all hours of the night. Sometimes, as a little girl, I would waken to hear hymns being sung by my father at the top of his lungs at one or two in the morning . It was one of the ways I knew he had come home.

    I do not believe that the rules for going forward for any people have changed. Black people are not going to make it on dependence or thrive on resentment. Nor should we. Our heritage requires that we reject supine behavior and fight. We can beat this by our Lord, our labor and our fierce independence.

    I recommend to all Muslims to give up whining. Take the chip off of your shoulder, put your shoulder to the wheel and push. Drop that devil Mohammad and his ridiculous Koran. Place all your chips on liberty and freedom and Jesus.The advice I recommend to you I recommend to Black people, to all people and for myself. I may not have helped anyone else with this, but I have surely encouraged myself. I was getting a little flabby.
  • JEWHAWK
    I am against to IMPEACH President Hussein.

    I want to see him politically defeated in 2012 by
    a FISCALLY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN.

    This will make myself happy.
    To cook up a complicated scheme to oust his barackness from
    the White House will do a great political damage to the Conservative
    Movement.

    It would be like the proverbial shooting our own foot.

    Prepare MITT ROMNEY for President.
  • Bronwyn
    Sure, I would rather see Obama defeated fair and square. But the US may not make it to 2012, unless we remove Obama from office sooner. He is openly dismantling the US economically, in our preparedness for defense and in our relations with our allies. He is determined to give psychological strength to our bitter enemies. He belittles US openly to the world and divides us domestically. He sides with a portion of the US against the rest. He has done nothing for blacks. Absolutely nothing.
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