Mona Charen torches CPAC with criticism of Trump, Roy Moore

[Landslide Lyndon]

http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-cpac-mona-charen-heckled-me-too-movement-times-sexual-misconduct-819079

“I’m disappointed about our side about being silent about serial harassers and abusers, including the one sitting in the White House,” Charen said, “because they happen to have an R beside their name.” This was an obvious reference to President Trump, who has been accused of sexual harassment and misconduct by more than a dozen women. He has denied all those allegations.

The hall erupted in booing and some shouting, a stark break from the cheering and applause that have marked the four-day conservative conclave.

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Seemingly unfazed by the crowd’s dismay, Charen continued, “You can’t endorse Roy Moore, credibly accused of child sexual abuse,” a reference to former chief Alabama judge Roy S. Moore, who lost a senatorial race in that state last December. He was defended by many prominent Republicans, among them President Trump, despite credible evidence of misconduct against young women, including teenagers.

“Not true,” someone in the audience shouted, as the panel’s moderator, publisher of conservative Regenry Books, Marji Ross, tried to steer the conversation towards safer topics: the excesses of the #MeToo movement, Harvey Weinstein’s history of sexual assault.

Charen would not have it. She urged conservatives to “separate” themselves from “the men on our side who’ve behaved atrociously towards women.” Not quite done yet, she wondered why French ultranationalist Marion Marechal-Le Pen had been invited to speak at CPAC. “The Le Pen name is a disgrace,” she said of the family behind the National Front party in France.

[Torrain]

Takes guts to be so frank in front of a crowd like that, and drill a hole in a echo chamber that pressurised. FF

[DrScholl]

I'm surprised she wasn't shot. You know, it would have been self-defense because of the Second Amendment.

[fluffypanther19]

Takes guts to be so frank in front of a crowd like that, and drill a hole in a echo chamber that pressurised. FF

really; good on her for taking on the hypocrisy of the right

[JGibson]

Good move on Charen calling out Trump and Moore's sexual assaults/harassments and Le Pen's far-right extremism, especially in front of a largely pro-Trump/pro-Moore/pro-Le Pen crowd at CPAC.

[Santander]

How did she get through the vetting?

[Koharu]

Takes guts to be so frank in front of a crowd like that, and drill a hole in a echo chamber that pressurised. FF

Yeah, wow. I'm glad someone called out their hypocrisy, but unfortunately they'll likely brush her off.

[Beet]

Ironically she wrote a book called "Useful Idiots" in 2003.

[Brittain33]

Those snowflakes didn't care for her penetrating their safe space.

[pbrower2a]

Mona Charen has it right. Sexual restraint has long been a focus of conservative morality, and that precludes sexual harassment and messing around with underage people. We liberals could sacrifice Harvey Weinstein, Al Franken, and John Conyers quickly. We did not ask about the political orientations of Matt Lauer, Garrison Keillor, or Charlie Rose.

But it is perfectly OK that the current President could walk into female changing rooms or brag about grabbing women by their crotches. It's fine to be a scoundrel as long as one expresses and enforces the official ideology that np human sufferi9njg can ever be too much in the name of profit.

[Joey1996]

Also called Le Pen a Nazi. Charen herself is a right wing clown but broken clock theory applies here.

[junior chįmp]

Ironically she wrote a book called "Useful Idiots" in 2003.

That was actually her autobiography

[CookieDamage]

Ironically she wrote a book called "Useful Idiots" in 2003.

That was actually her autobiography

[Fuzzy Bear]

Takes guts to be so frank in front of a crowd like that, and drill a hole in a echo chamber that pressurised. FF

[Dr Oz Lost Party!]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

So that makes her 1/8 Nazi ?

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

I'm sure her own views play a role, too. I mean, I wouldn't expect them to defend a liberal just because her great-grandfather was Nazi. But if she's a fascist, too? That's their kind of gal. (As long as she's a lot younger than the conservative in question, of course.)

[junior chįmp]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

I'm sure her own views play a role, too. I mean, I wouldn't expect them to defend a liberal just because her great-grandfather was Nazi. But if she's a fascist, too? That's their kind of gal. (As long as she's a lot younger than the conservative in question, of course.)

CPAC couldn't get enough of Le Pen's description of a kind of 'Final Solution' to the immigration issue in America. In exchange for work, she said, they will set the immigrants free or something like that

[Unconditional Surrender Truman]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

I'm sure her own views play a role, too. I mean, I wouldn't expect them to defend a liberal just because her great-grandfather was Nazi. But if she's a fascist, too? That's their kind of gal. (As long as she's a lot younger than the conservative in question, of course.)

CPAC couldn't get enough of Le Pen's description of a kind of 'Final Solution' to the immigration issue in America. In exchange for work, she said, they will set the immigrants free or something like that

Hey, all Le Pen's asking for is a little living space. Maybe if we give it to her, we can achieve peace for our time!

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

I'm sure her own views play a role, too. I mean, I wouldn't expect them to defend a liberal just because her great-grandfather was Nazi. But if she's a fascist, too? That's their kind of gal. (As long as she's a lot younger than the conservative in question, of course.)

CPAC couldn't get enough of Le Pen's description of a kind of 'Final Solution' to the immigration issue in America. In exchange for work, she said, they will set the immigrants free or something like that

is this an attempt at a joke?

The only mention of immigration in her speech was in reference to France and was very mild by Trump/CPAC standards.

[Inmate Trump]

Takes guts to be so frank in front of a crowd like that, and drill a hole in a echo chamber that pressurised. FF

Why are you requoting this, when you still support the people she’s referring to? She’s talking to you.

[America Needs a 13-6 Progressive SCOTUS]

[afleitch]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

So that makes her 1/8 Nazi ?

So...like are you supporting her or what?

[Mr. Reactionary]

Props to her for telling it as it is! And seriously, Conservatives? They continued to defend the Le Pens despite her great-grandfather being a Nazi?

I'm sure her own views play a role, too. I mean, I wouldn't expect them to defend a liberal just because her great-grandfather was Nazi. But if she's a fascist, too? That's their kind of gal. (As long as she's a lot younger than the conservative in question, of course.)

CPAC couldn't get enough of Le Pen's description of a kind of 'Final Solution' to the immigration issue in America. In exchange for work, she said, they will set the immigrants free or something like that

is this an attempt at a joke?

The only mention of immigration in her speech was in reference to France and was very mild by Trump/CPAC standards.

Gasp! Any deviation from democrat views on immigration is racist nazi fascism.

[HAnnA MArin County]

RINO cuck. I'm surprised the deplorables in the audience didn't start chanting "Lock her up!"