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Breitbart Busts Birther at Tea Party Confab
cbsnews ^ | February 6, 2010 12:10 PM | Charles Cooper

Posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:41 AM PST by Syncro

February 6, 2010 12:10 PM

Breitbart Busts Birther at Tea Party Confab

by Charles Cooper
Attending the Tea Party Convention in Nashville this weekend, The Washington Independent's always-excellent David Weigel recounts an extraordinary hallway confrontation between online publisher Andrew Breitbart and WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah over the question of President Obama's citizenship.

*snip*

"Prove your case."

"I should prove, what, a birth certificate that may or may not exist?" Farah had gotten irritated. "That’s ridiculous. You don’t even understand the fundamental tenets of what journalism is about, Andrew. It’s not about proving things. It’s about asking questions and seeking truth."

Breitbart tensed up after that insult. "Right."

"I know you’re not a journalist, so that’s fine. But don’t diminish people who’ve been doing this for 35 years."

"So you’re going to go on record saying that I’m not a journalist?"

"Are you? I’ve never heard you claim to be. Are you?"

"I’ll let it be answered by you."

"Well, I knew [Matt]Drudge didn’t consider himself a journalist, so I assumed that you were. … I don’t know, I’m not trying to insult you."

"You did."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthcertificate; birthers; breitbart; certifigate; farah; naturalborncitizen; teapartyconvention
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Read the rest at the link, it's pretty interesting!
1 posted on 02/06/2010 10:14:41 AM PST by Syncro
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To: Syncro
Now who was it saying Conservatives are marching in lockstep like automatons.

I presume they checked their guns before the meeting.

2 posted on 02/06/2010 10:16:22 AM PST by muawiyah ("Git Out The Way")
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To: Syncro

0bama has a foreign pedigree
He has foreign ideas
He was inculcated in a foregn religion (Islam)

You bet I want to see this liars birth certificate which is just one of many paper trails he keeps hidden. Such as his college transcripts and whether this turd got affirmative action

Some say just by having a Kenyan father he is not a natural born citizen


3 posted on 02/06/2010 10:18:49 AM PST by dennisw (It all comes 'round again --Fairport)
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To: dennisw

Some say? The Constitution says.

The term ‘Natural Born Citizen’ was derived from “Law of Nations”:

http://i477.photobucket.com/albums/rr131/stevesharp2918/VattelsNBC-LawofNations-citizenS.jpg

This is where the term originally came from.

The author’s credentials:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerich_de_Vattel


4 posted on 02/06/2010 10:23:33 AM PST by chopperman
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To: Syncro

Its not up to sceptics to prove Obama is inelegible, its up to Obama to prove that he is. Its that simple, and there is nothing wrong with making any candidate for office prove citizenship or eligibility. I can’t believe this issue has been distorted so much.


5 posted on 02/06/2010 10:23:59 AM PST by HerrBlucher (Jail Al Gore and the Climate Frauds!)
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To: dennisw
Some say just by having a Kenyan father he is not a natural born citizen...

Would those "some" include the framers of the Constitution?

6 posted on 02/06/2010 10:24:14 AM PST by Tonytitan
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To: Syncro

few things are as pitiful to witness as a contest of egos.


7 posted on 02/06/2010 10:24:41 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (governance is not sovereignty [paraphrasing Bishop Fulton Sheen].)
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To: Syncro

I believe the only claims being made by “birthers” is that obama refuses to provide a copy of his BC and any documentation from Occidental, Columbia, Harvard. There’s nothing to dispute about that.


8 posted on 02/06/2010 10:25:04 AM PST by ElayneJ
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To: Syncro

The leftist media loves to tell people what and how to think. They can’t seem to get their heads around the idea that different folks have different opinions. It’d probably kill the media to report anything positive from the convention.


9 posted on 02/06/2010 10:25:12 AM PST by DaveMSmith (Evil Comes from Falsity, So Share the Truth)
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To: Syncro

Breitbart is correct; it is not a winning issue.

If the goal is to defeat Hussein’s agenda, prattling on and on about his birth certificate is not going to move the electorate in that direction.


10 posted on 02/06/2010 10:26:13 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: dennisw

all the left and the media keep doing is name calling, Well I have no clue why he doesn’t produce his birth certificate.

What I do know that there has been many questions about it and common sense dictates that he just show the damn thing and shut all of this up.
The media will not go anywhere near this with a barge pole even Beck denounces it and yet he too cannot say he has seen the B/C.

He doesn’t show it and I would love to know why.

Now before lefty loons go all mental with the name calling I am not saying he isn’t American born but I am saying that many have raised questions and yet he will NOT PRODUCE IT.

WHY

It’s amazing how the likes of Beck etc will say obama is a Marxist and yet not ask why he doesn’t show it or even bring up the homosexual agenda.
he went after czars and yet left Jennings a czar who taught kids how homosexuals stick their fist up another mans arse

why didn’t Beck go after him or this .


11 posted on 02/06/2010 10:26:37 AM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Syncro

I was watching the coverage on CSPAN. There was a woman on who was born in Hawaii. She held up her birth certificate and said: this is my birth certificate. I was born 40 years ago in such and such hospital. Then she held up her son’s birth certificate and said he was born in Hawaii 20 years ago. This is what a Hawaiian birth certificate looks like — not this piece of junk (holding up certificate of live birth).

It was quite an interesting moment.


12 posted on 02/06/2010 10:26:40 AM PST by jersey117
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To: Syncro

Breitbart did not say Farah was wrong about Obama, he just said he felt is was a losing political argument.

The MSM must be nervous about the Tea Party if they try to rile something up with this crap. It’s great to see them squirm.


13 posted on 02/06/2010 10:27:03 AM PST by coaltrain
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To: ElayneJ

the only question some have asked is that could he show his B/S.

I think that is a reasonable request, he will not the media will not ask, even Beck who has showed he goes after obama will not


14 posted on 02/06/2010 10:28:00 AM PST by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Syncro

Breitbart is right. Obama may not be a natural born citizen, but it’s not a “winning issue”. Pick your battles.


15 posted on 02/06/2010 10:29:49 AM PST by bigbob
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To: Syncro

I read it and was left wondering where the rest of the article was. No conclusions no result no nothing, just the end right in the middle of a conversation. Have I missed something?


16 posted on 02/06/2010 10:30:44 AM PST by wita
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To: manc
the only question some have asked is that could he show his B/S.

He shows his BS every day.

17 posted on 02/06/2010 10:31:23 AM PST by Misterioso (To deal with men by force is as impractical as to deal with nature by persuasion. -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Amen to that, R_D.


18 posted on 02/06/2010 10:32:32 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: manc
Now before lefty loons go all mental with the name calling I am not saying he isn't’t American born but I am saying that many have raised questions and yet he will NOT PRODUCE IT.

WHY

Because it hurts his opposition more than it hurts him. Simple strategery mixed with stubborn arrogance. Standard Obama MO.

19 posted on 02/06/2010 10:32:35 AM PST by Valpal1 ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.")
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To: HerrBlucher

You are right. You can’t prove a negative. So it is up to Obama to prove his eligibility. Until he does............


20 posted on 02/06/2010 10:33:48 AM PST by Paperdoll (.........on the cutting edge)
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