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Posted: 2021-02-26T10:45:20Z | Updated: 2021-03-05T19:31:39Z

The theme of the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference is America Uncanceled. But this week, just days before CPAC was set to kick off in Orlando, Florida, conference organizers announced theyd had to cancel one of their own scheduled speakers.

We have just learned that someone we invited to CPAC has expressed reprehensible views that have no home with our conference or our organization, CPAC organizers tweeted Monday, referring to right-wing social media figure Young Pharaoh. Media Matters had surfaced deeply anti-Semitic tweets he made calling Judaism a complete lie and made up for political gain.

The individual will not be participating at our conference, CPAC said in its tweet.

And although Young Pharaoh who responded to his cancellation by reasserting that he did not BELIEVE IN THE VALIDITY of Judaism will no longer be featured at this years CPAC, a murderers row of other bigots, extremists, insurrectionists and disinformation peddlers are still slated to speak.

Every year CPAC does a delicate public relations dance to determine which white nationalists and conspiracy theorists are forbidden from attending the event, and which ones will be given coveted spots speaking on panels or even from the main stage. (At least one of last years CPAC panelists has since been arrested for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.)

This years top-billed speaker is former President Donald Trump, who will be making his first big speech since inciting the insurrection, getting impeached and then finally leaving office.

The conference, the premier annual gathering of the American right, where Republican lawmakers mingle with activists and journalists, is being held in person in Orlando despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Last years CPAC , held in a Maryland suburb of Washington, occurred just as the virus landed on U.S. shores. Afterwards organizers had to email attendees warning them that an infected New Jersey doctor had been in attendance, taking selfies with GOP congress members, dining with mega donors, and shaking hands with CPACs leader.

Over half a million Americans have since died of the virus, yet one of CPACs featured speakers on Friday is Alex Berenson, a spy novelist and former New York Times reporter who has found an attention-getting grift in downplaying the severity of the coronavirus, spreading dangerous disinformation during appearances on Fox News and across right-wing media. Berenson will be speaking on a CPAC panel about the FIrst Amendment.

A short time later on Friday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.) will speak on a panel about Protecting Elections one of seven panels at the conference aimed at perpetuating Trumps lie that the election he lost was stolen. Brooks is facing a censure in the House of Representatives for his role in the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection. He gave a fiery speech to the MAGA mob before they stormed the Capitol building, imploring his fellow patriots to start taking down names and kicking ass.

Hes among multiple Republican members of Congress speaking at CPAC who either had a role in helping incite the insurrection or who have extensive ties to the extremist groups who ransacked the Capitol.