TagsTagsThe National Post’s Jonathan Kay is not a liberal. He attended the Tea Party Convention in Nashville, Tennessee, and filed this report for Newsweek: Tea Party Movement Is Full of Conspiracy Theories. (I know. I’ve only been trying to point this out for the past year.) After I spent the weekend ...
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Orly Taitz, queen bee of the Birther movement at the Nashville Tea Party Convention, uncorks some classic paranoid fantasies in this video clip; Obama has 39 Social Security numbers, according to Taitz, one of them issued to a man born over 100 years ago. “So what,” you might say. “Any random ...
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Among the other right wing talking points Sarah Palin hammered in her $100,000 Tea Party Convention speech: that Obama uses a teleprompter. I know. The horror. Only a commie would use such an infernal device, right? Why, I’ll betcha that no politician ever used one before Obama was elected! Palin can proudly ...
Here’s an interesting note on TeaBagCon, from a roundup of the first day’s craziness by Mary C. Curtis at Politics Daily: A funny thing about the break-out session “How to Involve the Youth in the Conservative Movement” – not too many young people showed up. Mishelle Perkins, a 44-year-old mother ...
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Here’s the feed from the National Tea Party Convention in Nashville, with ex-governor Sarah Palin scheduled to take center stage in about 15 minutes. Right now there’s a blindingly dull panel discussion on “The Future of Tea Parties.”
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There are reports that the Tea Party Convention organizers are planning a press conference today to denounce Birtherism, after Joseph Farah’s speech last night. It seems a little late to start worrying about it, the day after the keynote speaker unleashed a full-on paranoid Birther rant to a cheering audience and ...
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The first National Tea Party/Birther Convention in Nashville is on C-SPAN today. Here’s the page where you can watch over the web: C-SPAN Live Stream. UPDATE at 2/6/10 11:34:06 am: Oh well, they’ve cut away now. The next broadcast will be at 6 pm Pacific, for the $100,000 speech of ex-governor Sarah ...
Joseph Farah of World Net Daily gives us a preview of his speech to the First National Tea Party Convention: What I’ll say today at 1st Tea Party Convention. Here’s a sneak peak at what I will be talking about in my keynote address to the first National Tea Party ...
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One of the problems with building a movement on a base of populist rage is that it tends to attract rage-a-holics who would rather die than compromise on anything at all, the kind of people who will just as easily turn their rage on each other when disagreements pop up. Today ...
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You have to wonder what they’re afraid of. Word from Nashville on Monday was that the First National Tea Party Convention next month will be closed to the press, other than for a limited number of “selected” journalists. No word on who or how many. This from the people who brought ...