In a story posted at 9:55 p.m. ET on Jan. 6, WorldNetDaily’s Brian Fitzpatrick reported that the Media Research Center would not participate in the conservative confab CPAC “because of the continued participation of the homosexual activist organization GOProud.”
As of this writing, however, this news has not appeared on any MRC-operated website.
That is curious. Why did the MRC allow WND to scoop it on a story it arguably owns that would be of interest to its right-wing audience, especially when the MRC operates numerous websites — including its own “news” operation, CNSNews.com — that could have just as easily gotten the story out?
That seems like extraordinarily dumb management of the story by the MRC. One must wonder if its surprisingly successful anti-gay attack on a Smithsonian art exhibition was just a fluke.
Since WND is involved, it goes without saying that it couldn’t get the story completely correct. Fitzpatrick also portrayed the Heritage Foundation as pulling out of CPAC over GOProud; Slate’s Dave Weigel reports that Heritage spokesman Mike Gonzalez — whom Fitzpatrick quotes in his article — says that GOProud’s participation is not why the group is not taking part in CPAC this year.