{"id":666970,"date":"2010-02-17T09:34:50","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76779"},"modified":"2010-02-17T09:34:50","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T14:34:50","slug":"cpac-will-honor-ed-morrissey-ron-kessler-with-journalism-awards-breitbart-and-acorn-sting-to-receive-unofficial-tributes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/666970","title":{"rendered":"CPAC Will Honor Ed Morrissey, Ron Kessler With Journalism Awards; Breitbart and ACORN Sting to Receive Unofficial Tributes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was some buzz last year about Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O&#8217;Keefe receiving some sort of honor at CPAC as a show of gratitude for the ACORN video sting. At the moment, they&#8217;re definitely getting honors, but almost certainly not from the American Conservative Union and the conference proper.<span id=\"more-76779\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Breitbart and Marc Morano &#8212; the latter of ClimateDepot &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cpac.org\/agenda_20708.html\">will accept the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award<\/a>, sponsored by AIM, at a mid-afternoon reception. On Friday, the religious conservative XPAC &#8212; a tangentially related event that&#8217;s drawing in some CPAC attendees &#8212; will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xpac2010.com\/\">&#8220;recognize and award&#8221;<\/a> Giles and O&#8217;Keefe.<\/p>\n<p>Not going to the ACORN stingers: CPAC Blogger and Journalist of the Year Awards, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/74724\/vote-for-cpacs-journalist-and-blogger-of-the-year\">for which online voting was held last month<\/a>. Of the Breitbart-Giles-O&#8217;Keefe trio, only Breitbart was a nominee &#8212; for Journalist. But the winners were Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com (Blogger) and Ronald Kessler of Newsmax.com (Journalist). Still up in the air: the actual CPAC awards, including the Ronald Reagan and Defender of the Constitution Awards (not picked yet, awarded at a Friday night banquet).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was some buzz last year about Andrew Breitbart, Hannah Giles and James O&#8217;Keefe receiving some sort of honor at CPAC as a show of gratitude for the ACORN video sting. At the moment, they&#8217;re definitely getting honors, but almost certainly not from the American Conservative Union and the conference proper. On Thursday, Breitbart and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2761,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-666970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NvA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2761"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}