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WorldNetDaily, Obama campaign cash-in on birther industry

By | 05.19.11 | 12:39 pm | More from The Colorado Independent

Righty activist author Jerome Corsi’s latest anti-Obama book, “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” is climbing the ranks at Amazon. It’s now reportedly number 22 with a bullet. The Obama reelection campaign is using news of the book release to fundraise. WorldNetDaily, internet birther headquarters and also publisher of Corsi’s book, More…

Bachmann only potential pres. candidate thus far slated to speak at tea party nominating convention in Kansas City

By | 05.10.11 | 3:30 pm | More from The Minnesota Independent

Rep. Michele Bachmann is the first potential presidential candidate to confirm that she will speak at Freedom Jamboree, a tea party “nominating convention for the offices of President and Vice President” to be held in Kansas City in September. The convention has already drawn a motley crew of personalities, including More…

‘Reagan in pumps’: Religious right excited about potential Bachmann prez bid

When Rep. Michele Bachmann’s office declined to rule out a 2012 bid for the Republican nomination for president, religious right leaders responded with glee at what they say could be the next Ronald Reagan — except “swap boots for pumps.” Bachmann has long had a strong relationship with the More…

Bachmann to Lead Birther-Filled Lineup at Taking America Back Conference

By | 06.28.10 | 2:29 pm

Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) will headline September’s Taking America Back conference, an event that includes notable “birthers” Jerome Corsi, Aaron Klein, Joseph Farah and Alan Keyes. In fact, of the 15 speakers, at least nine have expressed doubt that President Obama was born in the United States.

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WorldNetDaily’s Farah: ‘Today I Pronounce CPAC Dead’

By | 03.08.10 | 9:17 am

Joseph Farah, who sparred over the “birther” conspiracy theory with Andrew Breitbart at the National Tea Party Convention, pens a lengthy column — a promo for his own convention — attacking CPAC organizers for not holding a birther panel. It’s interesting in the same way that the More…

Learning to Manage the Fringe

By | 02.18.10 | 6:00 am

The annual Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off in Washington today, and one would-be conservative star — Debra Medina — won’t be missed.

In late January, polls showed Medina’s campaign for governor of Texas surging from single digits — the usual terrain of first-time candidates given to talk of “revolution” More…

Joseph Farah: Birth Certificate Theories Are ‘Popular Because of Us’

By | 02.10.10 | 2:11 pm

After Andrew Breitbart criticized World Net Daily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah for using his speaking slot at the National Tea Party Convention to raise questions about President Obama’s citizenship, I chatted with Farah about why and how he wanted the media to cover his pet issue.

“I really want to know More…

Tea Party Convention Marks Coming Out for a Movement

By | 02.08.10 | 6:00 am

NASHVILLE — In the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips didn’t do much talking to the media. The founder of Tea Party Nation, the chief organizer of the conference alongside his wife Shelley, was buffeted by attacks from Tea Party activists who accused him of More…

Birther Speaker Takes Heat at Tea Party Convention

By | 02.06.10 | 11:00 am

NASHVILLE — During WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah’s Friday night dinner speech, which spent around 10 of its forty minutes on questions about Barack Obama’s citizenship, Andrew Brietbart was among the conservatives in back of the room grumbling audibly about what he was hearing.

After he introduced the evening’s closing entertainment More…

Joseph Farah’s Big Birther Speech

By | 02.05.10 | 10:10 pm

NASHVILLE — WorldNetDaily Editor-in-Chief Joseph Farah gave a 40-minute dinner speech to the National Tea Party Convention and spent at least 10 minutes of it on jokes and meandering observations about the citizenship of President Barack Obama. The strangeness started with a joke about an “international medical convention” where an More…