If the National Tea Party Convention hoped to keep its focus on political organizing and its message on limited government, it has had little success so far. Capping the first full day of the meeting, right-wing instigator Joseph Farah spent much of his dinner speech questioning whether President Obama was born in Hawaii and casting doubt on whether the president was legitimately elected. “The media, the politicians … all say, no, it’s all been settled. I say, if it’s been settled show us the birth certificate. Simple,” Farah’s said, as his remarks were cheered by the roughly 600 activists gathered in Nashville for the event. Farah runs WorldNetDaily.com, a conservative conspiracy tabloid, book publisher and tireless critic of the administration. He dismissed those who MORE
President Obama, in his State of the Union message this week, focused on the economy and jobs for Americans, as well he should have. The right week extremists, seizing on the false sense of empowerment the election of Scott Brown gave them immediately began to proclaim that comprehensive immigration reform, was a dead issue. How wrong they were. And the usual loony toons, led by Tom Tancredo and Frosty Woolridge took the opportunity to push their agenda of zero immigration and mass deportations as a solution to free up 25 to 30 million jobs for Americans. Notice how with these two, the number of “illegals” exponentially grows to suit their purpose? It not just them. Roy Beck of NUMBERSUSA, Mark MORE
Since Forde and her confederates were collared for the murder of 9 yo Brisenia Flores and her father Raul, she’s been depicted by some mainstream media outlets as a marginal player from a marginal group in the larger nativist movement. In reality, Forde is part of a nativist tide that has coughed up a wide array of crackpot flotsam and jetsam. Rather than an aberration, she’s the perfect example of how a lumpen nobody can become a somebody in Minuteman and nativist circles, just by strapping on a gun and espousing hate-filled rhetoric. Indeed, the Southern Poverty Law Center recently noted that, at one point, Forde claimed to represent the most mainstream and powerful of nativist organizations, the Federation for MORE
