That these characters are meeting up once again to thrash out these issues is no great revelation or surprise. After all, they wear their agenda with pride and promulgate it in the media and on the internet week in week out.
What is more surprising, perhaps, is that some of them are happy to accept the invitation of an organisation that has promoted intelligent design and seems to tread a very fine line indeed between fighting “Islamic fascism” and outright Islamophobia. Are these speakers happy – or even aware – of the company they will be keeping this weekend? Is it fair to assume they did their homework on this group before accepting their invitation to be flown to LA to participate in the event?
Joe Romm at Think Progress
I'm just surprised they didn't find a way to tie in gun control. Fear! Fear! Fear!
Fear that green means lost money for YOU!
Fear that science means questioning literal Genesis!
Fear that Sharia Law is on the way!
And there are some real winners appearing:
Viscount Mockton, who continues England's fine tradition of totally bonkers people who have to be taken seriously because their ancestor provided some service to some monarch.
James Delingpole, who likens having to debate an actual scientist to "intellectual rape". A nicely turned phrase and one can only hope his brain conceived a child as a result, because said child might be his first actual thought.
Phelim McAleer, producer of Not Evil Just Wrong which attempts to debunk An Inconvenient Truth.
And so on.
It appears to me that once again, the RWNM is willing to pay people to make fools of themselves so long as it serves their purposes. It's akin to a "reality TV" show where you can eat a cockroach for $5,000.