After declaring that it’s “really great to be around like-minded folks,” conservative journalist and editor of WorldNetDaily Joseph Farah launched into a ten-minute spiel about President Obama’s citizenship (or, in his mind, possible lack thereof) during the National Tea Party Convention on Friday. The speech, which drew applause from those in attendance, has disappointed and infuriated many conservatives — including some who attended the convention — hoping for a civil tone.
Farah, who has said that the issue of the president’s citizenship “is not going to go away, and it will drive a wedge in an already divided public,” seems to have driven a wedge into an already divided tea party movement.
Among those disappointed was Andrew Breitbart, who blasted Farah after the speech:
“It’s self-indulgent, it’s narcissistic, it’s a losing issue…It’s a losing situation. If you don’t have the frigging evidence — raising the question? You can do that to Republicans all day long. You have to disprove that you’re a racist! Forcing them to disprove something is a nightmare….We have a lot of strong arguments to be making, and that is a primary argument. That is an argument for the primaries that did not take hold. The arguments that these people right here are making are substantive arguments. The elections in Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts were all won not on birther, but on substance.”
The speech was recounted by the LA Times, and details on Breitbart’s reaction are here.
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