White Nationalist Richard Spencer Removed From CPAC

[brooklynite]

Source: NBC News

White nationalist Richard Spencer was kicked out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday after holding an impromptu press conference with reporters.

CPAC spokesman Ian Walters said Spencer purchased his ticket and that his money had been refunded. Walter called Spencer's views "repugnant."

Spencer popularized the term "alt-right" and has espoused racist and anti-Semitic views, calling for "peaceful ethnic cleansing." A video of him yelling "hail Trump" and saluting attendees at a conference in Washington, D.C. shortly after President Donald Trump's election went viral last year, though Spencer later claimed he was being "ironic."

After being removed, Spencer told NBC News that he believes the attendees at CPAC don't want to hear from the older speakers and said younger conservatives want to hear from people like him. Spencer repeated that he believes that race plays a major role in identity and said that whites were becoming a persecuted minority in America.

Read more: http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/white-nationalist-richard-spencer-removed-cpac-n724696

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You have to draw the line somewhere...

[NewJeffCT]

1. Punch Drunk?

[njhoneybadger]

2. Setup

[TNNurse]

3. Just a cover to hide all the really awful people who are there.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. Two down

But both represent the heart and soul of the GOP.

[Crowman2009]

5. Guess CPAC is trying to hide Trump's base from the cameras.

In this case it's Milo Snufalufagus and Richard Spencer.

[riversedge]

6. "conference organizers gave him credentials to attend and then wavered on whether to let him stay."

White nationalist leader Richard Spencer booted from Conservative Political Action Conference

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-conservatives-spencer-20170223-story.html


Leading Conservatives Gather For Annual CPAC Event In National Harbor, Maryland




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Reporters surround white nationalist Richard Spencer at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Feb. 23 in National Harbor, Md. (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
Matt Pearce



One of the country’s most prominent white nationalists, Richard Spencer, was kicked out of the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday after conference organizers gave him credentials to attend and then wavered on whether to let him stay.



It was the second time in a week that the organizers of the annual conference have awkwardly pushed out a far-right supporter of President Trump. Last week, CPAC organizers who had invited the British provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos to give a speech quickly disinvited him after footage emerged of Yiannopoulos appearing to promote pedophilia.



The tentative purges are a sign of the challenges conservatives face in policing the outer boundaries of their movement as Trump takes the GOP in a more nationalist direction. The shift, while energizing many working-class voters, has also attracted the vocal support of white nationalists like Spencer, who coined the term “alternative right” to describe his far-right views on separating the races.

Attending CPAC requires registration and can cost up to $300, and Spencer came to CPAC to attend a speech that was critical of the “alt-right.”.......................

[IronLionZion]

7. So the line is drawn at nazis and pedophiles

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

8. More to the story - the CPAC organizer sez Spencer is a quote "left wing" fascist!!! Meanwhile....

Steve Bannon, an avowed Leninist, is NOT a "left wing" fascist and is allowed to stay???

MY BRAIN HURTS - I m getting whiplash trying to follow their contorted logic. So "alt right" apparently is to some people really leftists.