[Peace-discuss] AOTA invites you to Spot the Loony!

[C. G. Estabrook]

In fact we stressed the diversity at CPAC in tonight's program, in aid of the 
thesis that the two war/wall-street parties can only be checked by a left-right 
alliance against them - which would include the antiwar segment of CPAC.

We talked about the Paul endorsement and quoted you on the uselessness of the 
"left-right paradigm"  (and I even managed to avoid saying, "Brother, can you...").

Since that debate years ago, I've always had a soft spot in my heart/head for 
Gaffney - he's such a cartoon villain...


On 2/16/11 12:16 AM, E.Wayne Johnson wrote:
> There is a wide variety of people who attend and participate actively in 
> CPAC.  It is not at all a homogeneous monolith.
>
> I dont know why they would turn away Gaffney, since they allowed uber-neocon 
> John Bolton, Newty the Gingrinch, et al. who have essentially the same "War is 
> Peace" message as Brother Barack.  I watched part of the Romulan's speech on 
> American Exceptionalism and just about had to barf.  Someone must have written 
> one clever joke for him although the rest of his jokes were clunkers.  Ann 
> [Hang 'em High Haman] Coulter called for jailing more journalists.   There was 
> plenty to poke fun at.
>
> There  are many booths and vendors at CPAC who have books and literature, 
> tapes, DVDs to sell and give away sort of like any trade show, and they run 
> the gamut from paleo-con to outright anarchist to libertarian to nuke'm 
> neocons to some genuinely well-meaning Christian charities and what-not.
>
> This year there were people actively passing out anti-Ron Paul literature in 
> the hallways, but they did let both Pauls speak, and Ron Paul won the 
> presidential straw poll, beating out the Romulans for the second year in a row.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
> To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>; <Peace at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:42 AM
> Subject: [Peace-discuss] AOTA invites you to Spot the Loony!
>
>
>> "And welcome to 'Spot the Loony', where once again we invite you to come with 
>> us all over the world to meet all kinds of people in all kinds of places, and 
>> ask you to ... Spot the Loony!" (Monty Python #38)
>>
>> ‎"AWARE On the Air" will be cablecast by Urbana Public Television tonight (15 
>> February) on channel 6 at 10pm (with repeats, and soon a facebook posting).
>>
>> Tonight's program includes a consideration by Ron Szoke ("Confusion in the 
>> Ranks") of the Conservative Political Action Conference, recently concluded 
>> in DC.
>>
>> Here's more: 
>> <http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/15/frank-gaffney-banned-from-cpac/>.
>>
>> I once had a debate with Frank Gaffney in David Horowitz' journal. He makes 
>> loons look like models of mental health.
>>
>> --il tuo servo obbediente)
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