We’ve detailed how the Media Research Center has been extremely reluctant to tell its readers that it boycotted CPAC over the appearance of GOProud. Now that the conservative gathering has come and gone, it’s finally ready to come out of the closet.
A Feb. 14 CNSNews.com article by Penny Starr lists the MRC as among conservative groups that “chose not to participate in the event” due to the presence of “the homosexual lobby group GOProud” — the first time to our knowledge that this has been straightforwardly reported on an MRC webslte. Starr doesn’t explain why she didn’t report this until now, even though it’s been public knowledge for more than a month.
Starr’s article contains this curious “correction”: “Several conservative organizations chose not to participate in CPAC this year; they did not boycott the event.” It’s not explained why several organizations choosing not to “participate” in CPAC in protest of the presence of another group does not amount to a boycott; that seems like a distinction without a difference.