Values Voter Summit

Values Voter Summit MC: Press Loves Occupy Wall Street, Hates Us

Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 7, 2011, 2:20PM

If you've ever been to a Values Voter Summit, you've heard the calming baritone of Gil Mertz, the Family Research Council's regional director of development and the MC at every VVS.

Each time Mertz opens or closes a session at VVS, he offers this advice to the crowd: "Don't be the weird one." He means don't be the out-there birther, etc the so-called "unscrupulous" members of the press corps will undoubtedly find as they seek to slander the crowd here. It's a common, repeated refrain at a VVS and it raises a chuckle everytime Mertz says it.

This year, Mertz added a bit more tongue-not-really-in-cheek attacks on media bias into the mix.

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Values Voter Summit

Eric Cantor: 'Increasingly Concerned' About Occupy Wall Street 'Mobs'

Evan McMorris-Santoro | October 7, 2011, 9:57AM

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA)

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor took to the stage at the 2011 Voter Values Summit in Washington to do a little fear-mongering about the growing Occupy Wall Street protests.

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