Rachel Maddow fact checks conservative conference

By David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Friday, February 19th, 2010 -- 11:42 am

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow is attending the Conservative Political Action Conference this week and reporting back to the rest of the country on what she described Thursday as "the biggest single event on the conservative calendar that is not Ronald Reagan's birthday."

Maddow focused in particular on the numerous Republican politicians who showed up to woo conservative activists, noting wryly that "their courting of the CPAC audience today did not apparently extend to making sure that what they told that audience was true."