Michelle Malkin, Robert Spencer, CAIR, YAF, and Me
I’ve been covering the Young America’s Foundation National Conservative Student Conference like an Afghan blanket for a magazine all week (hence my scarcity here) and today featured the first bit of controversy. Truth has been a prominent theme of the conference: We must stand up for it, we must care. The controversy thus aptly involved a talk by Robert Spencer, “The Truth About CAIR,” which got three standing ovations.
The Council for Islamic-American Relations issued a threat to YAF demanding they uninvite Spencer or else suffer lawyers. YAF’s young, hot-blooded spokesman introduced Spencer by noting that no, we have not uninvited him, and what’s more, CAIR stinks. He then ominously reminded the Council, “in America, we have something called the Bill of Rights. We advise you to review amendments one…and two.”
CAIR does stink. Their thuggish intimidation tactics and Jihadist agenda should not be taken with a grain of sand. But you already knew that. So why am I mentioning this?
Because Michelle Malkin sat down in front of me to live-blog the speech, and I heard her ring-tone. It’s “How To Save a Life” by The Fray.
