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Live Video: CPAC 2010

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Rightwingconspirator2/18/2010 1:32:41 pm PST

Huh. Rachael Maddow is there with nice things to say.

Maddow said she’s been invited in the past and praised CPAC for opening the door to media that are not exactly sympathetic to the cause.

“They’ve made very overt efforts in years past, even when they weren’t nearly as big a deal on the political scene, with outreach to talk radio, including progressive talk radio,” Maddow said.

“I do appreciate the way they’ve been unafraid in terms of the media that they’ve invited,” she continued. “I think that’s one of the things CPAC’s done right. I’ve always had a lot of respect for them for that.”

Some other events on the right, she said, haven’t been so open to left-leaning press.

“You see it now at a lot of conservative events happening now, GOP events and conservative events where they’re closed to the media or [open just to] handpicked media, and that’s an embarrassment,” she said. “CPAC’s never been like that.”