CPAC: The Unauthorized Documentary

CPAC: The Unauthorized Documentary

VideoNation’s report from this year’s Conservative Political Action Committee meeting in Washington reveals the ugly side of right-wing politics.

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See seven minutes of raw, unexpurgated right-wing action from the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting in Washington over the weekend, courtesy of VideoNation.

Michelle Malkin goes unhinged and launches a hysterical tirade into the lens of my camera. I ask Ann “John Edwards is a Faggot” Coulter why she isn’t the same person on Sunday morning as on Saturday night. Tom Tancredo fanatics lose their cool when asked about connection between race and immigration, then try to conceal their neo-Confederate parephenalia. A curiously pale black Republican explains why black Republicans can’t get elected. Bob Barr, Grover Norquist and “Flipper,” the anti-Romney dolphin, discuss the conservative movement. I receive a special gift from David Horowitz…and much, much more!

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