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Farah previews Obama-bashing, birtherism-centric Tea Party Convention speech

February 05, 2010 8:56 am ET by Media Matters staff

From Joseph Farah's February 5 WorldNetDaily column:

Here's a sneak peak at what I will be talking about in my keynote address to the first National Tea Party Convention in Nashville tonight. I wish you could all be there, but it's a sellout:

[...]

I have a dream.

My dream is that IF Barack Obama even seeks re-election as president in 2012, he won't be able to go to any city, any town, any hamlet in America without seeing signs that ask, "Where's the birth certificate?"

It's a simple question.

The rest of the media think it's ridiculous, which makes me certain it's one of the most important questions we can be asking. It really hits the target. Polls now show 33 percent of Californians either believe Obama was born outside the country or have doubts about his alleged Hawaiian birth. Nationwide it's closer to 50 percent. Even significant numbers of Democrats have doubts.

But the media and the politicians keep pretending it's all been settled.

I say if it's been settled, show us the birth certificate.

Simple.

[...]

It's an old trick really. It was actually codified by a Marxist Columbia University professor and his research assistant in an article in The Nation May 2, 1966 -- when Barack Obama was only 4 years old. (Or at least we think he was about 4 years old. Without that birth certificate, we just don't really know.) The professor of social work was Richard A. Cloward, and his research assistant was Frances Fox Piven. What they authored became known as "the Cloward-Piven Strategy of Orchestrated Crisis."

[...]

Today, Obama is still employing the Cloward-Piven strategy, but not as a community organizer. Today he is the Community Organizer in Chief.

He's still creating crises as a means of empowerment.

Think about it: With Obama, everything is a crisis -- carbon dioxide levels, the banking industry, the automobile industry, the health-care system and especially the economy.

He's going to fix them all, he promises.

How?

By turning make-believe crises into real crises.

The goal remains the same as when it was first outlined in 1966. It is, as the Marxists of the 1960s and early 1970s explained, to "heighten the contradictions of capitalism," bring the system to its knees and, ultimately, collapse.

Do I exaggerate?

I don't think so.

It's the only paradigm that makes sense given the policies of the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress. They are following a deliberate course to destroy the American free-enterprise system, your freedom and the American way of life.

[...]

After all, the God of the Christians and Jews says: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

That's His first commandment. And His second doesn't make Him any easier to swallow: Don't worship idols.

That's pretty much what the U.S. government has become for many Americans.

And God says: "Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me."

You see, it's kind of a mutual aversion situation.

Previously:

Will the press question the "Palin-Farah ticket"?

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    • Author by nerzog (February 05, 2010 9:04 am ET)
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      Rehearsals have already started...


      [http://library.thinkquest.org/05aug/00158/images/kkkcircle.jpg]
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    • Author by nerzog (February 05, 2010 9:07 am ET)
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      bring the system to its knees and, ultimately, collapse.


      Don't look now, Dooshbag, but Capitalism has been brought to its knees by the weight of its own greed. Socialists had nothing to do with it.
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      • Author by bilbo_dies (February 05, 2010 10:50 am ET)
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        Nerzog,
        You just don't understand. If capitalists don't blame someone else (socialists,communists, etc) then they would have to accept the blame for their own cupability in their failure.
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    • Author by soze169880 (February 05, 2010 9:18 am ET)
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      Love the lip-service to Jews, as though he considers them human. If there are five people who aren't white Anglo-Saxon Protestants at this freakshow, I'll eat Werner Herzog's shoe.
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      • Author by nerzog (February 05, 2010 9:26 am ET)
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        The Troglodytes have to handle the Jew thing carefully. They think the Jews are all doomed to Hell, but they have to play nice so they'll be invited to Armageddon.
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    • Author by goesto11 (February 05, 2010 9:27 am ET)
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      "The rest of the media think it's ridiculous, which makes me certain it's one of the most important questions we can be asking."

      Extending this premise to the next logical step...

      The rest of the media also think it's ridiculous to ask whether Big Foot is real, so I assume there will be plenty of time in his speech devoted to Sasquatch.
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      • Author by bilbo_dies (February 05, 2010 10:52 am ET)
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        Nope, I believe that Sasquatch has been proven to be a conservative.
        He was offered a speaking slot, at the convention, but turned it down due to previous commitments.
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    • Author by okiepoli (February 05, 2010 9:42 am ET)
         
      I'd like to post something pithy, but reading that trash made my brain hurt.
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    • Author by mattcable250650 (February 05, 2010 9:51 am ET)
         
      My problem with how this speech will get covered (The front section of my local paper didn't cover it at all) is that everybody in the traditional media press corps will decide "Oh dear, we can't cover this and still make Palin look like anything other than an hysterical demagogue. Hmm, best not to cover it at all, that way we'll maintain our 'objective' and 'non-partisan' credentials."
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      • Author by mattcable250650 (February 05, 2010 10:17 am ET)
           
        D'oh! Sorry, but re-reading the "speech" shows that Paln didn't deliver it as a speech at all, it's just some guy wishing she would deliver such a speech. [Now why did I think this was a speech that Palin delivered? Probably 'cause it looks like something she'd be perfectly comfortable saying.]
        Belay my last.
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    • Author by rms (February 05, 2010 9:52 am ET)
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      "Hello, there, attendees..."

      "I am paranoid and proud of it!!!"
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    • Author by TPath (February 05, 2010 9:54 am ET)
         
      Will the Tea Party organizers be issuing refund to those loyal Sarah Palin fans and Tea Party Conservatives who can't make it to Nashville tomorrow for the banquet?
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    • Author by roland (February 05, 2010 10:18 am ET)
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      I'm confused. I thought the whole teabagger movement was born out of the presmise that the country is currently facing a crisis of Biblical proportions. Now he's saying that Obama is making it all up to advance his own agenda? I'm not sure denying the nation's problems is the most winning strategy at this point but, hey, if it makes them feel good, go for it.
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      • Author by Good Creon (February 05, 2010 10:32 am ET)
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        Contradicting the Teab-baggers makes you a Nazi-communist loving-God hating-anti American-lizard man.
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        • Author by eweston8542983 (February 05, 2010 10:41 am ET)
             
          Ah good the lizardman contingent did show up.
          "Some say", that they can be effective ideological shock troops for the "CAUSE".
          Managers should check their teeth pior to deployment lest the enevitable chicken feathers cause offence.
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          • Author by bilbo_dies (February 05, 2010 10:53 am ET)
               
            Some people say that the hairy catapillar, on Farah's face, is actually controlling his brain.
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            • Author by soze169880 (February 05, 2010 11:15 am ET)
                 
              Others just say he's a hypocrite, because it's quite possibly the gayest mustache of all time. Not only that, here's a picture Farah doesn't want you to see of his previous career as a brothel owner in 1870s South Dakota:
              [http://tizona.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/picture-1.png]
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        • Author by dwieboldt@gmail.com (February 05, 2010 9:21 pm ET)
             
          You forgot the homosexual part...
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    • Author by shaggles (February 05, 2010 11:50 am ET)
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      What a pile of horseshite. Nearly 50% of Americans believe Obama was born outside the US? Not even close.
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      • Author by bilbo_dies (February 05, 2010 1:56 pm ET)
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        What a pile of horseshite. Nearly 50% of Americans believe Obama was born outside the US? Not even close

        Are you saying the % should be higher?






        Personally, I think it is the misplaced decimal syndrome.
        Nearly 0.50% of Americans believe Obama was born outside the US!
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    • Author by JoshSN (February 06, 2010 6:25 am ET)
         
      You folks are doing a good job on Farah, but maybe you should pay this guy to come visit and give you a day's updates.

      Bartholomew's Notes on Religion is a bit like Somerby's Daily Howler, in that if you don't know the players keeping up with the game is going to make someone feel like they've fallen into a plate of spaghetti.

      He doesn't even like me, but that doesn't matter, he's good people.
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