The liberal media have for days been trashing virtually every speaker at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.
On ABC's This Week Sunday, George Will exposed the hypocrisy particularly at the New York Times (video follows with transcript and commentary):
MARTHA RADDATZ, SUBSTITUTE HOST: George Will, any stars come out of this for 2016 that we're all going to be paying attention for the next four years that we already haven't started paying attention to?
GEORGE WILL: First, here's the New York Times headline on the CPAC conference "GOP Divisions Fester at Conservative Retreat." Festering an infected wound, it's awful. I guarantee, if there were a liberal conclave comparable to this, and there were vigorous debates going on there, the New York Times headline would be healthy diversity flourishes at liberal conclave.
Republicans have been arguing, social conservatives and libertarian free market conservatives since the 1950s when the National Review was founded on the idea of a fusion of the two. It has worked before with Ronald Reagan. It can work again.
What I did see at CPAC was the rise of the libertarian strand of Republicanism, which has an effect on foreign policy, that is a pullback from nation building and other kind of ambitions abroad that they never countenance from government at home, and a sense of live and let live with subjects such as decriminalization of certain drugs and gay marriage.
Indeed.
Reports I've seen from conservatives in attendance have depicted a broad discussion of many issues from a variety of positions and standpoints.
This happening at a liberal gathering would be applauded by the media.
Sadly, even when conservatives behave the way liberals would like them to the press still find fault.
