-By Warner Todd Huston
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The first day at CPAC was quite interesting. I met Donald Rumsfeld, actress and comedienne Victoria Jackson, Newt Gingrich, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum, and several others.
One thing about yesterday that is being incorrectly reported is the reception that Donald Rumsfeld and former Vice President Dick Cheney received. Many reports are claiming that when Cheney mounted the stage to introduce Rummy he was booed by an almost equal number of attendees that clapped and cheered for him. This is incorrect. There were but a small smattering of boos and catcalls for Cheney. 90 percent of the crowd loved seeing him there.
As to Rumsfeld there was one somewhat persistent heckler that kept yelling out “shekels” in a pretty anti-Semitic reference to Rummy’s dealings with Israel. But, once again, there were few such disrespectful people in the audience.
So, yes, there was some controversy in the air, but only some. The largest number of participants were happy to see both Cheney and Rumsfeld. In fact, with as controversial the Iraq War is even among Republicans, it was natural that this should have happened.
Anyway, I am back on blogger’s row this morning but before anything gets moving I want to post some of the photos from yesterday.
Newt Gingrich and wife appear at the Citizen’s United Event
New Media Panel. (from the left to right: Tabitha Hale, Freedomworks; Erick Telford, Amer. for Prosperity; Matthew Sheffield, Washington Examiner; Dana Loesch, BigJournalism.com)
Kentucky Senator Rand Paul
Congressman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin
VP Dick Cheney introducing Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld accepts the “Defender of the Constitution” Award
Actress and comedienne Victoria Jackson and myself
Donald Rumsfeld visits with me at blogger’s row
I want to thank RightPundits.com for sponsoring me at this year’s big bash.
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“The only end of writing is to enable the reader better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.”
–Samuel Johnson
Warner Todd Huston is a Chicago based freelance writer. He has been writing opinion editorials and social criticism since early 2001 and before that he wrote articles on U.S. history for several small American magazines. His political columns are featured on many websites such as Andrew Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com, BigHollywood.com, and BigJournalism.com, as well as RightWingNews.com, RightPundits.com, CanadaFreePress.com, StoptheACLU.com, AmericanDaily.com, among many, many others. Mr. Huston is also endlessly amused that one of his articles formed the basis of an article in Germany’s Der Spiegel Magazine in 2008.
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