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• At Tea Bagger Convention, WingNutDaily Editor Reboots Birther Conspiracy
  
  Jon Ponder | Feb. 7, 2010

  At the tea party convention Friday night, WorldNetDaily editor Joseph Farah took to the podium to exhort tea baggers not to be convinced by Bill O’Reilly and others that the issue of Pres. Obama’s birth certificate is a non-starter. To bolster his argument, Farah misquoted a DailyKos poll (without naming his source, of course), implying it found that 50 percent of Americans doubt the president was born in Hawaii — it was actually a poll of Republicans only. And he broke tea bagger taboo by comparing Obama to Jesus in a long peroration about how Jesus proved his lineage back to Adam before claiming to be King of the Jews. Video and transcript after the jump.

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• Could Tea Baggers Pass the Civics Test Tancredo Proposed at Convention?
  
  Jon Ponder | Feb. 6, 2010

  Former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, who has neo-Confederate hate group ties, was a fitting choice to be the opening night speaker at the tea bagger conclave in Nashville this weekend. In his remarks, Tancredo called for reinstating the Jim Crow era civics literacy test, which was outlawed by Congress in 1965. But if the test were reinstated, are tea baggers smart enough to pass it? Here are sample questions from the Alabama tests, circa 1964.

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• Ill. Sen.: Media Ignores ‘Liberal’ GOP Rep. Kirk’s Trouncing of Tea Bag Candidates in GOP Primary
  Jon Ponder | Feb. 4, 2010

  Contrast the near-hysterics in the media over Scott Brown’s Senate win in Massachusetts last month with the virtual silence over the collective 21 point drubbing four tea bagger candidates — including one of the original birthers — took from Rep. Mark Kirk, a liberal Republican, in the Illinois Senate primary on Tuesday. Beltway talking heads are equally silent about the shellacking in Illinois’ GOP gubernatorial primary taken by the candidate endorsed by both Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh. Adam Andrzejewski came in fifth place out of seven.

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• Turkeys Voting for Thanksgiving – Why Do Americans Regularly Vote Against Their Own Self-Interests?
  
  Jon Ponder | Jan. 31, 2010

  From the BBC, here, finally, is an explanation of the underlying cause of the rise of the tea bagger movement and the concomitant decline of Americans’ standard of living: It’s stories, not facts, that influence voters. As author Thomas Frank puts it, “It’s like a French Revolution in reverse in which the workers come pouring down the street screaming more power to the aristocracy.”

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• Tea Baggers Want Palin to Quit For-Profit Tea Bagger Convention
  
  Jon Ponder | Jan. 28, 2010

  Quitting is what Sarah Palin does best, but will she heed entreaties from her tea bagger fan base and reneg on her speaking engagement at the National Tea Party Convention at Opryland in Nashville next weekend?

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News Desk

• Palin Rep: Limbaugh’s ‘Retard Summit’ Comment Was ‘Crude and Demeaning’

  Plumline: Palin’s spokeperson says Palin “believes crude and demeaning name calling at the expense of others is disrespectful.’
• Just a Reminder: Sean Hannity Has Still Not Fulfilled His Promise to Be Waterboarded

  Reddit: Let’s remind him: The Sean Hannity Show – 800-941-7326 – Mon-Fri 3-6pm EST.
• Question Time with the Prez!

  Politico: A politically diverse group of bloggers, commentators, techies and politicos Wednesday, Feb. 3, will launch an online campaign, Demand Question Time, urging President Obama and GOP congressional leaders to hold regular, televised conversations. Supporters include Grover Norquist, Joe Trippi, Mark McKinnon, Ed Morrissey, Ari Melber, Katrina vanden Heuvel and David Corn.
• SOTUS Ruling Equals Big Media Bailout

  Miami Herald: Right-minded conservatives who control the U.S. Supreme Court swept aside longstanding restrictions on corporation-funded political advertising and ensured the country’s media hundreds of millions of dollars of additional ad revenues for years to come.
• White House Reports 600k Jobs Created by Stimulus in Q3 2009

  WaPo: Numbers come from 160,000 reports on quarterly spending submitted by stimulus recipients.
• Rielle Hunter Tries to Stop Release of John Edwards’ Sex Tape

  Smoking Gun: John Edwards’s ex-mistress is seeking to suppress what appears to be a sex tape featuring her and the disgraced politician.
• Every Anatomically Correct Body Scan Is a Win for al Qaeda

  TNR: TSA officer to passenger: “Someone ought to do something about those machines–it’s like we don’t have any privacy in this country anymore!”
• Racist Tea Bag Leader Depicts Obama as a Pimp in Fundraising Email

  Chattahbox: Dale “Niggar” Robertson “photoshopped Obama with a pencil-thin mustache, wearing an oversized zebra-striped fedora trimmed with white fur, a garish purple band and a black feather.”
• Should Charlie Crist Change Parties?

  TNR: And would he be the only plausible Democrat to win the U.S. Senate seat?
• Tea Baggers Bachmann, Blackburn Withdraw from Tea Bag Convention

  WaPo: Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) have announced that they will not attend the National Tea Party Convention next month.