Did anyone catch any of the National Tea Party Convention on C-SPAN this weekend? I wasn't going to watch any of it, but as I was switching through the channels in my office on Friday evening, the name of one of the speakers caught my eye, it was Joseph Farah.

If you're not familiar with Joseph Farah, he is founder of World Net Daily, an ultra-conservative website that promotes the kooky conspiracy theory surrounding Barack Obama's birth certificate.

He spoke while the attendees of the convention dined, spending about 10 minutes, according to Dave Weigel, talking about Obama's birth certificate. He also spent some time talking about religious morality. What these two things have to do with the Tea Party movement, I don't know. Thankfully, Andrew Breitbart called him out on bringing up the nutty topic.

The focus of the Tea Party movement was supposed to be targeted. It was supposed to be about free markets, cutting taxes and spending. That's it. Not about personal crusades or promoting one party over the other.

Humorously, Farah closed his speech warning attendees, "Don't let some politician or demagogue hijack this movement."

I'd say it's a bit too late for that.