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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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To: Brimack34

So Breitbart is trying to boss around Palin too? I shouldn’t be surprised.


381 posted on 02/07/2010 4:26:35 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: little jeremiah

There are constant waves of control freaks who want us to focus in lockstep. They come and go, seeming to think that people are on a factory. This isn’t a factory ideal for producing a single product.


382 posted on 02/07/2010 4:28:37 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: little jeremiah

I agree that conservatives who turn cowardly look suspicious. It can actually be mental laziness combined with knee-jerk judgmentality, such as the Snopes worshiping Neil Boortz. Snopes does a terrible job sometimes in its feeble effort to discredit.


383 posted on 02/07/2010 4:31:07 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: jla; Syncro; editor-surveyor; manc; Cicero; Electric Graffiti; Maelstorm; little jeremiah; ...

jla: “The Birthers, (or cranks), are the ugly, redheaded step children of the Republican Party. Quickly approaching this ‘status’ are those who make up the Fringe amongst supporters of Mrs Palin. Ill-mannered, uncouth, mental slobs whose ‘signature trait’ is the clever proclamation, “You don’t agree with us? That makes you a TROLL”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2445835/posts?page=296#296

Hi jla. I try to be respectful to those who are respectful. To those who are not, I hand them a mirror to see their own face.


ATLAS EXCLUSIVE: FINAL REPORT ON OBAMA BIRTH CERTIFICATE FORGERY ...
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2008/07/atlas-exclusive.html

PROVEN: Barack Obama Presented Forged Certificate of Live Birth ...
http://conservativepolitics.today.com/2008/06/25/proven-barack-obama-presented-forged-certificate-of-live-birth/

Obama law tab up to $1.4 million
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=106138

Obama birth certificate lawsuits - Conservapedia
http://www.conservapedia.com/Obama_birth_certificate_lawsuits

WHY DOESN’T HE JUST SHOW US HIS FRIGGING BIRTH CERTIFICATE? What kind of goofball would rather spend 1.5 million? Or does he WANT discord in the military? Is this LEADERSHIP? What kind of mind does it take to not be suspicious of that?

The Hippies Who “Certified” Obama
http://www.theobamafile.com/_eligibility/AnnenbergFactCheckers.htm
[Obama was vetted by Annenberg. Does that ring a bell? Annenberg funded Obama AND unrepentent terrorist, Bill Ayers. Obama and the terrorist had offices near each other thanks to the fox who guarded the vetting henhouse.]

There are too many snarky “dignity freaks” who are more worried about their image than the truth. They fear ridicule. They calculate. And they will never get along with hardworking conservative muckrakers.
Not knowing it, the sarcastic “Dignity Mossad” is like a coward in the foxhole who stabs his buddy in the back and surrenders. Either that, or he’s a hideous combination of mental laziness and self righteous judgmentality.

Maelstorm: “There is no need for Glenn Beck, Breitbart, or anyone to defend a President who refuses to release his education records, his medical records, and yes he still hasn’t released a long form birth certificate.”

I don’t claim that BO is a foreigner. I just don’t believe he’s qualified yet, and his judicial appointments should be immediately revoked if it is later proven that he was in fact unconstitutionally elected. I’d like to see future lawsuits by people who appeal due to unconstitutional judicial appointments.


384 posted on 02/07/2010 4:38:18 AM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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To: Syncro
Oh that's the problem

Your books don't have paragraphs.


Sure they do, but they usually consist of more than a single sentence surrounded by a lot of white space.

Saves on paper, but must be hard to read.

Not as long as I stick to the single sentence paragraphs and lots of white space of Fun with Dick and Jane. Remember that?
See Dick run.

Run, run, run.

Run, Dick, run.
Actually I don't read books much anymore.

Computer screen spoiled me


I think we've discovered the origin of the matter at hand. Ha ha.


385 posted on 02/07/2010 6:07:31 AM PST by aruanan
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To: chopperman

Should the matter of “natural born” hold up in Court (and I mean, of course, the Supreme Court), and I’m not entirely sure it would, the the issue of Obama’s birth certificate is completely irrelevant, if you accept the fact that he was born in the US.

IOW, the BC is a red herring.


386 posted on 02/07/2010 6:16:33 AM PST by norge (The amiable dunce is back, wearing a skirt and high heels.)
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To: TruthHound

You need a new screen name.


387 posted on 02/07/2010 6:28:05 AM PST by Godebert
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

What/Where/Who do you derive your site name from? Just curious. If you bother to answer, thanks.


388 posted on 02/07/2010 6:46:37 AM PST by jla
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

They've got Snopes, but we've got Snoopy.

389 posted on 02/07/2010 8:31:43 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Electric Graffiti

agreed
Beck is name calling those who pose a question and yet tells us that he likes facts.

Well when I ask has he shown it Beck would say no.
I would then ask well why doesn’t he show it and I bet Beck says something like so what there’s more important issues at hand, lets move on.

well Beck doesn’t answer the question and cannot show the B/C and until he does or anyone in the media does then thye need to shut the hell up and do some research and ask obama”Why do you refuse to show it and why do you keep fighting to not show it”

until then Beck and Brietbart shut the hell up and ask questions.


390 posted on 02/07/2010 9:12:14 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: Godebert

No. You need to expend your energies on issues that will help conservatism.


391 posted on 02/07/2010 9:45:46 AM PST by TruthHound ("He who does not punish evil commands it to be done." --Leonardo da Vinci)
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To: Syncro

Why can’t I find Breitbart’s FULL SPEECH to the Tea Party Convention (Nashville)?


392 posted on 02/07/2010 10:39:24 AM PST by StopObama2012 (CLICK ME to expose Osaudi)
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To: aruanan
I think we've discovered the origin of the matter at hand. Ha ha.

Yea and you are probably right. Your paragraph was probably grammarically correct, but hard for me to read.

So I needed the sentences to be paragraphs to make it easier to read.

Even though your sentences were a bit long, they aren't even close to the record.

LOL, love the run spot run example...I read that book!

Traditionally, the longest sentence in English Literature has been said to be a sentence in Ullyses by James Joyce, which clocks in at 4,391 words. Past editions of The Guinness Book of World Records have listed this record.

However, Joyce's record has recently been surpassed. Jonathan Coe's The Rotters Club, published in 2001, contains a sentence with 13,955 words. I believe he currently holds the record in "English Literature."
I never finished reading the classics, I stopped a bit into the long sentence.

: > )

393 posted on 02/07/2010 11:01:59 AM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming soon! March 27th to April 15th 2010)
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To: TruthHound
"No. You need to expend your energies on issues that will help conservatism."

I've got news for ya..... Conservatism starts with DEFENDING the CONSTITUTION.

394 posted on 02/07/2010 11:06:37 AM PST by Godebert
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To: StopObama2012
This is all that I could find, a 20 minute discussion in the hallway

http://www.pjtv.com/?cmd=video&video-id=3052

Besides the little one to the media

I don't know if he spoke from a podium except for introducing Palin and the little one where he excoriated the media

Here's that one, 3 minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcbhf0iJcL8&feature=player_embedded

395 posted on 02/07/2010 11:50:18 AM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming soon! March 27th to April 15th 2010)
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To: manc
until then Beck and Brietbart shut the hell up and ask questions.

Can they talk about other matters?

Just asking.

396 posted on 02/07/2010 11:51:32 AM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming soon! March 27th to April 15th 2010)
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To: Syncro

Surely even you have noticed that only a small sarcastic handful here on this thread share your views on this subject.


397 posted on 02/07/2010 11:56:50 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Democracy, the vilest form of government, pits the greed of an angry mob vs. the rights of a man)
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To: editor-surveyor
Surely even you have noticed that only a small sarcastic handful here on this thread share your views on this subject.

So, I have shown you that your statement "this is a near 100% issue with Tea Partiers" is untrue and now you are pushing that most FR people are behind the birther movement?

Hundreds of thousands of tea partiers doesn't do it for you?

I will give you this: a small handful of the anti-birthers on this site speak about it with sarcasm.

The majority of FR members just ignore it, and are busy working on other issues like what congress and the Present O are doing to out country and way of life.

Apparently minor issues to birthers, but you guys are real busy.

Good luck, I wish you success in bringing Obama down with the birther stuff.

But don't try your discredited "near 100%" on the fine people at this website.

398 posted on 02/07/2010 12:17:39 PM PST by Syncro (TPXIII coming soon! March 27th to April 15th 2010)
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To: Valpal1

I disagree.

http://web.archive.org/web/20040627142700/eastandard.net/headlines/news26060403.htm


399 posted on 02/07/2010 12:29:33 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS ... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: jla

Arthur is an ideal that I’ll never live up to but seek to. March — it went well with ‘Arthur’. ‘Wildfire’ was the political wildfire my original online activism tried to inspire.


400 posted on 02/07/2010 12:45:38 PM PST by Arthur Wildfire! March (2010 HOUSE RACES! Help everyone get the goods on their House Rats. See my profile.)
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