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By Spencer Kornhaber in Politics, Wacky Vids
Mon., Oct. 19 2009 @ 12:34PM
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​We sadly couldn't make it to the Western Conservative Political Union Action Conference this weekend at the Radisson in Newport Beach. Luckily, conservative filmmaker and former KFI blabber John Ziegler was on hand to film the top drama of the conference: his own antics.

When David Foster Wallace profiled Ziegler in 2005 for the Atlantic, my takeaway was that Ziegler doesn't really get along with other human beings very well. He recently got arrested for making trouble at a Katie Couric appearance at USC. And, lo and behold, this weekend in Newport, he got into a confrontation with CPAC chairman David Keene and was kicked out by WCPAC organizer Jim Lacy.

All three videos of Ziegler's saga are posted on Red County, but here's the one where things start to get dicey:



Yes, that's Gary Kreep, the birther superstar lawyer/anti-Orly Taitz, showing up halfway through, calmly telling Ziegler to go away. And yes, that's Jon Fleischman, former Mike Carona spokesman and current Flash Report publisher, laying hands on Zielger to keep him from disrupting a speech.

The brouhaha began with Ziegler interviewing Keene. Ziegler had a bone to pick with Keene, a top conservative, for publicly criticizing Sarah Palin, supporting Arlen Specter in 2004, and allegedly lending his organization's public support to policy stands in exchange for money.  In Ziegler's mind, those three things apparently serve as evidence that Keene was being paid to talk smack on Sarah Palin (because who would criticize Sarah Barracuda for any reason other than money?). Ziegler got pretty accusatory and repetetive in the interview, not accepting Keene's explanations for his actions and getting up to follow the chairman around the conference.

Eventually, Keene calls Ziegler an "asshole," says he wants to punch him and has the cops throw him out of the conference. At another point, Ziegler manages to jump on stage while Jim Lacy is talking about how obnoxious Ziegler is. Watch the entire episode here.

GOP 2010!

Update, 2:46 p.m.: Actually, this third video is definitely worth posting. It features Ziegler's horribly awkward perp walk with a sad, ineffectual Radisson security guy.



4 comment(s) / Post a Comment
Gustavo Arellano says:

John Ziegler is perhaps the biggest non-anti-Semitic slimeball to ever disgrace Southern California airwaves. And he has a victim complex that would make Rush Limbaugh blush.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 19 2009 @ 1:41PM
blaine says:

given all the vicious slurs sarah palin had to endure, its good that someone is defending her - even if its john ziegler.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 19 2009 @ 2:05PM
Miles says:

Thanks for that. It really helped clear up my misconception of conservatives as a bunch of combative, assholish white guys with bad haircuts.

Posted On: Monday, Oct. 19 2009 @ 4:02PM
urbanleftbeinind says:

Was the banquet table at the end of the Part 2 of 3 video some sort of Wab Bait? Did any conservatives try to prove their bonafides by vandalizing the somebrero section?

Posted On: Tuesday, Oct. 20 2009 @ 1:39PM


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