CPAC Website Apparently Mixed Up Two Black Republicans

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The website for the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) appeared to have mistakenly posted a photo of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) in a biography for conservative activist Dr. Ben Carson, both of whom are scheduled to be speakers at the event this week.

A screengrab of the mixup tweeted by Washington Post reporter Ben Terris on Wednesday morning showed that, at least on the CPAC mobile site, Carson’s entry displayed Scott’s portrait.

By shortly after 9 a.m. ET on Wednesday, when TPM reviewed the website, the error appeared to have been corrected:

CPAC did not immediately respond to a request for comment from TPM on Wednesday morning.

Scott replied, with some fun, to Terris’s tweet a few hours later on Wednesday:

Later that day, CPAC told TPM that the image in question was a photoshop.

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  1. Avatar for mantan mantan says:

    Mixed Up Two Black Republicans

    Everyone knows these two are pre-mixed and require no stirring…

  2. they had a 50-50 chance of getting it right and blew it like Michele Bachman on a corndog

  3. Glad to see Dr. Carson recovered from his bout with “poor self-esteem.” Reach for the stars, Ben!.

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