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CPAC “All Black People Look Alike” Update

“SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS …”  || By FITSNEWS || Earlier this week we posted a humorous item about an error committed by the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  This, of course, is the annual lily white “exclusive” gathering of “conservative” political operatives in Washington, D.C. CPAC’s error?  Confusing…

“SEE WHAT HAD HAPPENED WAS …” 

|| By FITSNEWS || Earlier this week we posted a humorous item about an error committed by the American Conservative Union’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).  This, of course, is the annual lily white “exclusive” gathering of “conservative” political operatives in Washington, D.C.

CPAC’s error?  Confusing Dr. Ben Carson – a renowned neurosurgeon who is contemplating a 2016 White House bid – with U.S. Senator Tim Scott.

Both Carson and Scott are black.

Eager to refute the embarrassing “white people think all black people look alike” headline, CPAC’s first response to the gaffe was to … get this … accuse reporter Ben Terris of The Washington Post of manipulating the image he tweeted.

Specifially, CPAC spokesman Ross Hemminger told the website Talking Points Memo “it’s a photoshop.”

“I’ve spoken with the web people who verified that it was definitely photoshopped,” Hemminger continued, vowing to provided the website with evidence of his claim.

CPAC also tweeted that it “did NOT mix up” the photos of Carson and Scott … and “conservative” website RedState.com echoed this claim.

“I don’t even slightly believe this isn’t a photoshop,” RedState.com editor Ben Howe tweeted.

Another CPAC tweet expressly claimed “we didn’t make the error.”

Really?

Hmmmm …

Oddly enough, the photo glitch – which only applied to the mobile version of CPAC’s website – mixed up all sorts of images (Including those of caucasian and Indian elected officials).  In fact there’s a detailed follow-up story in The Washington Post which exonerates the paper’s reporter … and puts the ball squarely back in CPAC’s court.

So … will they admit their mistake?  Especially now that it seems clear it was a glitch that had nothing to do with mistaking one black politician for another?

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18 comments

RogueElephant February 26, 2015 at 12:35 pm

Yeah-Right. This looks to good to be true. That means it IS too good to be true. The left trying to paint conservatives as racists. Get over it. Conservatism cut across all racial and ethnic lines., The vast majority of people live a conservative life style (not throwing money away), most people live a moral lifestyle. The left never misses an opportunity to paint good people the color that fits their agenda. Like everything else liberals do : one big lie.

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SomeoneElseTookDude February 26, 2015 at 12:46 pm

You sure are talking alot but saying nothing

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Silent Cal February 26, 2015 at 1:05 pm

That’s because he never has anything much to say.

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt February 26, 2015 at 4:53 pm

So do you support the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

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Barack February 26, 2015 at 12:45 pm

The GOP needs someone half black and half white to bring the party together.

Someone like me.

Hope for change people-or is it hope & change? Oh well, you know what I mean.

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Yup, but no time soon February 27, 2015 at 9:22 am

You’re right. The GOP needs somebody capable of being popularly elected twice in a national election. Not looking good…like the last 30 years. ;-)

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vicupstate February 26, 2015 at 12:57 pm

So the Right accuses the ‘lamestream media’ of mischief in order to hide their own incompetence?

Same Shit, Different Day

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Elfego February 26, 2015 at 2:30 pm

That is the way it is all the time in Democrat Circles.

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Corel February 26, 2015 at 2:37 pm

Photoshop? I guess they think everybody is as dumb as their voting base?

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SCBlues February 26, 2015 at 10:12 pm

“Same Shit, Different Day”
You really cannot make up some of the shit that comes out of these right-wingers’ mouths . . . or other holes.

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Nölff February 26, 2015 at 1:35 pm

That put a hamper in the “hey-look-we-have-minorities-so-we’re-not-racist” strategy.

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Elfego February 26, 2015 at 2:30 pm

All Black Democrats govern alike. By “fiat:. Plus show me one black Democrat politician that has governed successfully!

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Buz Martin February 26, 2015 at 5:20 pm

Many of these comments want to gloss over the total lies from CPAC and Redstate.

Typical behavior, sad to say. Admit the error, glitch, or whatever, apologize for the lies, and move on.

Another tempest in a tea party pot.

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GrandTango February 26, 2015 at 6:39 pm

If FITS and the liberals did not have your cliches, about race, and everything else…you’d publish pages as lily white as your face, from your cul-d-sac, yuppie-laden, all-white-flight subdivisions……

You attack others not like you, with race…to shield your own nervous-racism, and your self-hatred for it…

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LeRoy February 27, 2015 at 8:26 am

Poor Tim. He looks like he actually LIKES to be used and abused. He is the supreme token!

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Slartibartfast February 28, 2015 at 8:24 am

And we all know WAPO never, ever lies or screws up a story.

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Plantation February 28, 2015 at 2:43 pm

Reminds me of Curtis Loftis. He doesn’t know the names of any of the blacks that work in his office. That’s why he calls them ‘brother’ or ‘sister’ instead of by their own names. He also pays them A LOT less than whites.

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