NBC Editor Posts Documentation of Nazis at CPAC after Organization Slams Report as ‘False’

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Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”

Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.

“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote...

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NBC reporter: "there were Nazis openly schmoozing at CPAC"

Republican Party: "NO THERE WEREN'T! THAT'S A LIE! YOU HAVE NO EVIDENCE OF THAT!"

NBC reporter: presents evidence

Republican Party: surprised Pikachu face

But seriously, we all know where this is going. Conservative leaders will cry "librul media persecution!" And about 95% of their followers will just believe them and refuse to check the presented evidence, because it's more convenient for them to blindly follow the movement than it is for them to accept the truth.

The endgame is for Nazis to be okay but liberals aren’t. “Look at what those damned liberals are doing to those poor persecuted Nazis.”

This is a harrowing step forward on that path.

Worse, they'll play the "just because Nazis were here doesn't mean we're Nazis" card. They will find a picture from 1967 where some hippie brought a Nazi flag to a Humphrey rally to prove that both sides are the same.

"As we say in Germany, if there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there talking to him, you got a table with 11 Nazis. " - Dr. Jens Foell

A possible caveat. If it's an interrogation table would it be okay? This is obviously not an interrogation table though. This is a dinner table

I think there is a world of difference between talking with someone and interrogating them.

I hesitate to ask why so many people are sitting at an interrogation table, but I don't know that much about interrogation...

Good cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop, bad cop.

And that first one isn't that good either.

Well they don’t consider Nick Fuentes to be a Nazi anymore. When his views weren’t as mainstream in the Republican Party, he was a Nazi. Now he’s just “really conservative on social issues”

Or more accurately, they don’t consider nazis bad anymore.

"Some of them are fine people." - current GOP front runner and CPAC golden idol

Looks like we're between the denial and anger phases.

inb4 we get the the acceptance phase of "Yeah there were Nazis, but Nazis are ok."