Feel The Excitement
by digby
In the mailbag:
WHY THIS TEA-PARTY MANIFESTO IS THE MANIFESTO
“Original Tea Partier” who predicted movement’s rise advises on guiding
principles; warns how brewing economic fixation could overheatWASHINGTON – So this tea party movement. Who’s their leader? What’s their
agenda? How are they successful? And even as they score ballot-box surprises
across the country, where do they go from here?Most of the press and even the president have expressed an opinion on the tea
party movement few flattering, many including accusations as severe as racism.
Now a media personality who’s provided precise insight on the modern-day tea
party movement years before it formed offers a book that’s sure to inspire and
infuriate adherents and critics.Published by WND Books, The Tea Party Manifesto releases July 4. It’s written by
Joseph Farah, who’s been called “a tea partier before there was a tea party
movement.”“There is a danger that the tea party movement can be compromised,” said Farah.
“Make no mistake about that. There are those who seek to limit its scope. If
they are successful, it could prove to be a lethal blow.”The CEO and co-founder of WorldNetDaily.com, Farah will speak at the Tea Party
Unity Conference July 15 in Las Vegas and joined Sarah Palin as the only other
nationally televised speakers at the inaugural Tea Party Convention in February.An ardent constitutionalist and First Amendment absolutist, Farah spent 30 years
running daily newspapers in major markets before founding WND.com, the world’s
first exclusively online news agency, in 1997. He sees the tea party movement as
the silver lining in the fast-moving clouds of the federal government’s roiling
expansion. Yet he warns how the movement whose success he unabashedly roots for
could suffer an early demise – primarily from within.The Tea Party Manifesto, which also contains the U.S. Constitution and the
Declaration of Independence, is rife with Farah’s fiercely independent and
uncompromising insights, such as:– “Some of the tea party groups have been rallying behind an effort known as
‘The Contract from America’ … about relatively narrow issues, most of which
are materialistic … “– “It often takes strong medicine to cure people of their infectious flirtation
with socialism. In America, I believe that medicine, believe it or not, is named
Barack Obama.”– “I wrote in Taking America Back … Most Republicans do not necessarily honor,
revere, and abide by the Constitution.”– “Some have begun to say, ‘I’m not a Republican, I’m a conservative.”
Personally, I prefer one the founders used themselves -‘ patriot.”– “As Bob Dylan said, ‘You gotta serve somebody.’ If we are not accountable to
God, we are incapable of self-government. The founders knew that. They were
right.”In his 2008 book, None of the Above, Farah said voting for McCain would
perpetuate the federal government’s unconstitutional power grab and Obama would
accelerate it, awakening Americans to action. How that response would look he
predicted in detail even earlier – 2003 – with his book, Taking America Back, a
road map to restoring reverence for liberty to long-ago subverted cultural
institutions.“The Tea Party Manifesto,” says Farah, “was written for the rank-and-file tea
party members, to give them the confidence they need to stay the course, to
boldly talk about issues beyond economic and materialism, to recognize that
America’s failings have been in its inability to discern right from wrong.”ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Joseph Farah – founder, editor, and CEO of WorldNetDaily, the
world’s leading independent Internet news source – joined Sarah Palin as one of
two nationally televised keynote speakers at the first national Tea Party
Convention in Nashville in February. He is scheduled to make a repeat
performance at the second national Tea Party Convention in Las Vegas in July.
His 2003 bestseller, Taking America Back, prophesied the movement today known as
“the tea party.” The former daily newspaper editor has authored, co-authored, or
collaborated on more than a dozen books, including Rush Limbaugh’s See, I Told
You So.
Farah’s keynote at the Tea party convention you’ll recall has a very specific focus:
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 tabloid, book publisher and tireless critic of the administration. He dismissed those who say he is obsessed with the birth certificate issue saying, “I admit it, I’m obsessed with the Constitution.”
Farah said he believed establishing lineage was important for leaders, using Jesus’ genealogical ties to King David as an example. Obama has produced his official Hawaii birth certificate; though those associated with the “birther” movement claim they want to see a copy of the original document issued.
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Farah went on to urge tea party activists to think beyond winning congressional elections in November and “take over not only the political institutions, but the cultural institutions, like the press, the entertainment industry, the universities, and yes the churches.”
“Are you ready to engage in a cultural war after we take back Congress?”
“Yes!” the crowd yelled back.
I’ll bet they are.
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