MSNBC Chris Hayes invited to CPAC 2013, declines offer unless GOProud ban lifted.
Yes, the legendary Conservative Political Action Conference had invited yours truly to participate at its 40th annual conference this March. I was specifically invited to be part of a panel called: “CSI Washington, D.C.: November 2012 Autopsy” along with Ann Marie Buerkle, John Fund, Michael Barone and Ralph Reed. I would be among 10,000 hard core conservative activists gracing the same stage as everyone from Marco Rubio to Sarah Palin to Mitt Romney, who have used the occasion to flaunt their conservative bona fides.
The form letter invitation I received even paid me the odd compliment of calling me “one of America’s leading conservative voices.”
My initial reaction was: of course I’ll go! As someone who attempts to convene discussions across various ideological boundaries, I have a special appreciation for CPAC’s willingness to invite someone with my politics to speak to the attendees. And as someone who regularly invites conservatives to sit at our table with a bunch of liberals, leftists and progressives, it seems only sporting (and karmically appropriate) for me to accept.
But then I remembered, thanks to a number of conservatives in my twitter feed, a pretty gross episode from 2011.
The rest: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/02/23/my-answer-to-the-conservative-political-action-conference/
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