https://redstate.com/erick/2012/02/14/cpac-not-quite-like-the-media-matters-communications-room-but-still-grow-up/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 00:17:22 -0400<![CDATA[UPDATE: Melissa Clouthier has taken on the task of writing the same point about the young women, too many of whom were even more scantily clad than some of Fox News hosts.Stephen Glass was a fabulist. He made up stories and eventually he was caught. I read somewhere he wants to be a lawyer now, but his contrition is in doubt.One of the things he made up was a story on CPAC. He may have made it up, but I think he got it right nonetheless.After RedState got started in July of 2004, blogging on the right became all the rage, though it was correlation and not causation. By 2005, CPAC had a Bloggers Row and I went for my first time. The event was held that year at the Reagan Center in Washington, D.C. Most of the attendees stayed across the street at the JW Marriott. It was not an ideal venue, but it was my first time and I did not know better.Being the good, intrepid blogger, I ran across the street to a CVS to buy a notepad, having left mine in my office back in Macon, GA. There in line were a half dozen young men, each with CPAC credentials around their necks and each buying condoms.]]>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:31:40 -0500<![CDATA[Erick Erickson]]>https://redstate.com/erick/2012/02/14/cpac-not-quite-like-the-media-matters-communications-room-but-still-grow-up-n42225