Editing Frank Gaffney (section)

===ACU dispute===
In 2011, Gaffney was banned by the [[American Conservative Union]] from the [[Conservative Political Action Conference]] (CPAC). ACU chairman [[David Keene]] released a statement contending that Gaffney "has become personally and tiresomely obsessed with his weird belief that anyone who doesn't agree with him on everything all the time or treat him with the respect and deference he believes is his due, must be either ignorant of the dangers we face or, in extreme case, dupes of the nation's enemies".<ref name=tpm>{{cite news|title=CPAC Banned Frank Gaffney Over Baseless Anti-Muslim Charges|url=http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/cpac-banned-frank-gaffney-over-baseless-anti-muslim-charges|access-date=July 26, 2015|work=[[Talking Points Memo]]|date=February 15, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711170638/http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/cpac-banned-frank-gaffney-over-baseless-anti-muslim-charges|archive-date=July 11, 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Gaffney has since returned to CPAC to host panels at the conference in 2015 and 2016.<ref name="adl.org"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Sarlin |first=Benjy |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/analysis-how-cpac-foreshadowed-donald-trump-s-takeover-gop-n532386 |title=Analysis: How CPAC Foreshadowed Donald Trump's Takeover of the GOP |date=5 March 2016 |publisher=NBC News |access-date=August 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160703045330/http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/analysis-how-cpac-foreshadowed-donald-trump-s-takeover-gop-n532386 |archive-date=July 3, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In an April 2016 column in ''[[The Washington Times]]'' titled, "When conspiracy nuts do real damage", Keene again slammed Gaffney, writing, "One hopes that is what they will do and that Mr. Gaffney will, like the folks at [[AFL–CIO|Group Research]], [[J. Edgar Hoover|Mr. Hoover]]'s aides and most conspiracy nuts of yore will vanish into the fever swamps from which he came".<ref name="washingtontimes.com" /> The column came two months after Gaffney unexpectedly left ''The Washington Times'' for ''[[Breitbart News]]'', where he was a staff columnist and Keene was the opinion editor. Keene, who had slashed the frequency of Gaffney's column from weekly to monthly, commented to ''[[Media Matters]]'' on Gaffney's departure, describing Gaffney's work as "well-researched," and stated, "we're sorry to lose him but we wish him well". Keene also noted that Gaffney had left without giving him any notice, saying, "I guess he's notifying us through you".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/27/columnists-departure-for-breitbart-is-news-to-w/198262 |title=Columnist's Departure For Breitbart Is News To Washington Times |publisher=[[Media Matters]]|date=February 27, 2014|access-date=August 1, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816234632/http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/02/27/columnists-departure-for-breitbart-is-news-to-w/198262 |archive-date=August 16, 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>