Posted by
Mike Bates on Friday, February 19, 2010 10:58:13 AM
ABC's The Note today is headlined
"Strange Brews: Conservatives Unite Over Anger, Not Candidates." Author and network senior political reporter Rick Klein writes:
The mood at the Conservative Political Action
Conference gathering -- which continues into the weekend in Washington
-- is decidedly more upbeat than a year ago. And the Bush name, not to
mention the (maybe more popular) Cheney one, is back.
Yet the energy fueling the gathering remains of a shapeless, sometimes dangerous variety.
Readers may reasonably have expected examples of this dangerous energy to follow. Klein goes on:
From the rousing ovations for primary challengers, to a
speaker referencing President Obama’s past drug use and deriding
homosexuality, to the endless teleprompter jokes (only some of them
read off teleprompters), to the general motivating anger that has
brought the crowd together -- the big tent isn’t exactly pitching
itself.
My, my, how terribly threatening. This isn't the first time Klein has sensed peril. In an interview last September (at about the 1:30 mark), Klein spoke of anti-media criticism at the Republican National Convention:
"I think it was dangerous to be up in the press box
where we were. I was with Sam Donaldson and we were looking like
(garbled) duck tomatoes or something."
The proposition that conservatives are dangerous has long been
popular with many in the mainstream media. An inability to
substantiate the notion doesn't deter The Note, which modestly bills
itself Washington's "most influential tipsheet," from again sounding
the alarm. Janet Napolitano, please call your office stat.