This is what I see as the most hilarious episode to come out of CPAC 2013. A panel hosted by Breitbart.com known as "The Uninvited" Panel (Because even the regular crackpot Republicans didn't want them there) had quite a moment when Orly Taitz wanted to discuss Obama's citizenship. "Creeping Sharia" Islamaphobe Pamela Geller wasn't about to have any of it, after all, she was there to discuss the threat of Creeping Sharia. (Oddly, many of the people raising the alarm about Sharia share the anti-homosexual, misogynist, religiously intolerant attitudes of Sharia.)

Orly Taitz, better known as the "Birther Queen," was rebuked by blogger Pamela Geller during Saturday's panel, introduced by Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) as “the world experts on global jihad.”

Geller snapped at Taitz after she asked multiple questions about President Barack Obama's birth certificate.

“I think there’s enough substance on this panel, I mean how many topics can you handle,” Geller said, “Inappropriate. really.”

Taitz gathered up her things in a huff, perhaps to go in search of more like-minded individuals.

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Tens of thousands of Egyptians have returned to the birthplace of last year’s popular uprising as officials say that delayed election results will be announced Sunday. The anti-military demonstrations in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, initiated Wednesday by the Muslim Brotherhood, continued to grow steadily Saturday as Egyptian voters expressed outrage over the delayed release of official results in the runoff election between Muslim Brotherhood candidate Mohamed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq, a former prime minister under ousted president Hosni Mubarak. The Muslim Brotherhood has released photocopied documents from each of the country’s electoral districts as well as a tally that shows its candidate ahead by about 900,000 votes.

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