{"id":266210,"date":"2016-09-08T00:39:10","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/national-press-club-cancels-alt-right-press-conference-planned-in-their-free-speech-lounge\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T00:39:10","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T00:39:10","slug":"national-press-club-cancels-alt-right-press-conference-planned-in-their-free-speech-lounge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/national-press-club-cancels-alt-right-press-conference-planned-in-their-free-speech-lounge\/","title":{"rendered":"National Press Club cancels Alt Right press conference planned in their &#039;Free Speech Lounge&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"info\"> <time class=\"clock\" datetime=\"2016-09-07 22:57\">Sep  7, 2016<\/time> By Reinhard Wolff <b><a href=\"\/\/twitter.com\/whitewolfgeist\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 82 82\"><path d=\"M68.8 23.8c-2 1-4.3 1.5-6.6 1.8 2.4-1.4 4.2-3.7 5-6.3-2.2 1.3-4.6 2.2-7.2 2.7-2-2.2-5-3.5-8.3-3.5-6.3 0-11.4 5-11.4 11.3 0 1 0 1.8.3 2.6-9.5-.4-18-5-23.5-12-1 1.8-1.2 3.8-1.2 6 0 3.8 2 7.3 5 9.3-1.8 0-3.6-.5-5-1.4 0 5.7 3.8 10.3 9 11.3-1 .3-2 .4-3 .4-.7 0-1.4 0-2-.2 1.3 4.5 5.5 7.8 10.5 8-3.8 3-8.7 4.8-14 4.8-1 0-2 0-2.8-.2 5 3.3 11 5.2 17.5 5.2 20.7 0 32-17.4 32-32.6v-1.3c2.3-1.6 4.2-3.6 5.8-6z\"\/><\/svg><\/a><\/b> | redice.tv<\/div>\n<p>On Friday, September 9, The National Policy Institute was scheduled to hold a press conference at The National Press Club in Washington, DC. The press conference was to be a chance for prolific Alt Right figures \u2013 namely, Jared Taylor, Richard Spencer, and Peter Brimelow \u2013 to offer some information to the public on this nascent movement.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Wednesday morning, The National Press Club cancelled the event; this makes NPI the first organization to have been shut down by NPC in its 108 year history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AltRight?src=hash\">#AltRight<\/a> is the first group in 108 years that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PressClubDC\">@PressClubDC<\/a> shut down <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NationalPressCensors?src=hash\">#NationalPressCensors<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9pJd4PhDO5\">https:\/\/t.co\/9pJd4PhDO5<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4295Drcv0h\">pic.twitter.com\/4295Drcv0h<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 American Renaissance (@AmRenaissance) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmRenaissance\/status\/773641750397190144\">September 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked why, NPC cited &#8220;potential security threats.&#8221; NPI offered to pay for more security; NPC, unfortunately, remained uninterested.<\/p>\n<p>The reality of the situation, of course, is that NPC&#8217;s leadership is afraid of hosting a controversial press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, on the same day that NPC cancelled this conference, its website published an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.press.org\/news-multimedia\/news\/national-press-club-encouraged-end-trumps-media-blacklist&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1473361187522000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE4RfvM1eSHejAeZXXe93pubZPNfA\" target=\"_blank\">article<\/a> in which the author praised Trump ending his blacklist of certain media organizations. In the article, the author writes that &#8220;&#8230;the NPC works to promote freedom of expression.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Further ironic is the fact that the ill-fated Alt Right conference was to be held in the NPC&#8217;s &#8220;First Amendment Lounge.&#8221; While it is undeniably within NPC&#8217;s legal right to refuse service to whomever&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/national-press-club-cancels-alt-right-press-conference-planned-in-their-free-speech-lounge\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sep 7, 2016 By Reinhard Wolff | redice.tv On Friday, September 9, The National Policy Institute was scheduled to hold a press conference at The National Press Club in Washington, DC. The press conference was to be a chance for prolific Alt Right figures \u2013 namely, Jared Taylor, Richard Spencer, and Peter Brimelow \u2013 to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-266210","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}