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Judson Phillips and his partner in crime Joseph Farah are trying to expand big government greed just so they can become millionaires by sponsoring tea parties.

The “National Tea Party Convention” appears to have taken its talking points from MSNBC.

“How can the Democrats work with Republicans if most Republicans are birthers?” David Shuster often asks during his show, in multiple variations, often using harsher words.

Joseph Farah, editor of ConspiracyTheoriesDaily, otherwise known as WorldNetDaily, didn’t disappoint Shuster.

Some highlights from Farah’s speech on February 5th:

“Some people say it’s not important where Barack Obama was born.”

(Other people say he was born in Hawaii.)

“No one has been permitted to see the one document that might shed light to his claim for eligibility.”

(No one except for Fact Check, the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and anyone with an internet connection. If you don’t have an internet connection, I can tell you that his certificate of live birth “sheds light” on the fact that he was born in Honolulu, Hawaii.)

And it’s not just the “socialist media,” as Joseph Farah commented later that night, that has taken the initiative to actually read Barack’s certificate of live birth.

“Big” Journalist Andrew Breitbart, whose website Big Government was the first to post the ACORN prostitution videos, got into an argument with Farah afterwards.

This according to the Washington Independent’s David Weigel (who is an associate editor of the libertarian Reason magazine, even though he also writes for the leftist Independent):

First, Breitbart was asked by WND’s Chelsea Schilling what he thought of the speech, and Breitbart said, “If you don’t have the frigging evidence — raising the question?”

(Farah, however does have evidence: He has already produced a photoshopped Australian birth certificate that said Obama was born in Kenya.)

Farah, by way of Weigel, heard what Breitbart said, then got into it with Breitbart and told him, “You don’t even understand the fundamental tenets of what journalism is about.”

(I’m a journalism major, and I can tell you that nowhere in the tenets of journalism is: passing off a copy of “Barack Obama’s Kenyan birth certificate” not once, but three times, without fact checking it once, even after you have been embarrassed previously.)

(That said, I’m kind of amused at Breitbart’s veneration of the term “journalist” and his constant efforts to be identified as such. Whenever someone asks what my major is, I tell him or her, “I’m a journalism major, but I’m minoring in business.” Why would you want to be identified as someone who can’t get facts straight, who tries to keep a straight face when talking for hours on end about a runaway balloon, who looks for facts to corroborate their opinions? … In short someone like Farah.)

So Farah, in his attempts at “journalism”–and successful attempts, I might add, based on the aforementioned standards of today’s journalism–asks Breitbart, “I should prove, what, a birth certificate that may or may not exist?”

(Which Farah has already not proven three times, and Obama has proven.)

His certificate of live birth itself is evidence enough to get a passport, a driver’s license, and a social security number. Birthists want Obama to produce his “official” original birth certificate (not just the COLB, which they think is photoshopped by the way). But we can already see that the COLB is evidence for anything to prove birth, and that even if he produced his real birth certificate, Farah would then demand to see one that wasn’t photoshopped.

(Interesting note: When I worked for Mosaic Sales Solutions earlier this year, they didn’t actually know I existed, because they only had a copy of my COLB, not my “birth certificate.”)

Apart from the already-proven COLB, we also have birth records placed in both the Honolulu Advertiser and the Star Bulletin.

Farah has a good reason for not paying attention to the facts, though: “It is a winning issue!”

As Breitbart easily notes, “The elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts were all won not on birther, but on substance.”

(i.e. Voters might be more concerned about how to cut the $14 trillion deficit and respond to the coming entitlement crisis than about seeing even more proof that Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii at 7:42 PM on August 4, 1961.)

There’s a reason why David Shuster keeps trying to apply Joseph Farah’s views to the entire conservative movement.

With Breitbart’s views now being known–the same views as 90% of conservative activists–I have to question why Breitbart and some other conservative media figures have been so aggressively pushing the Tea Party Convention Sales Pitch on their blogs. Breitbart’s Big Government and Big Journalism have multiple stories on it, many written by Gateway Pundit’s Jim Hoft.

Not only is this convention an embarrassment featuring keynote speakers using MSNBC’s talking points, but Tea Party Nation Owner and CEO Judson Phillips has admitted he got into the business just to exploit conservatives for profit. He charged $550 for people to hear MSNBC’s talking points, and he said, “I want to make a million off this movement.”

The real tea party leaders–those at the venerable groups Tea Party Patriots and the Tea Party Caucus–have intentionally stayed away from the convention, because, as Eric Odom of the Tea Party Caucus said, “The idea of a national tea party convention flies in the face of the movement.”

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