Tea Party 'revolutionary' Larry Klayman blames Obama for disastrous CNN interview

Tea Partier and frequent litigant Larry Klayman said in an interview with World Net Daily on Thursday that he is considering filing a lawsuit against the news network CNN after an embarrassing interview with anchor Don Lemon and legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin earlier this week.

Not only did Klayman tell WND head Jerome Corsi that Lemon should be fired for being a "well-known ultra-leftist African-American political activist who pursues a LGBT sexual agenda," Right Wing Watch reported that the Tea Party leader said that the interview was the culmination of a plot against him by formidable forces.

“What CNN did to me yesterday was a hit piece orchestrated against me by the Obama White House with the direct involvement of the Democratic National Committee in an attempt to discredit me and to turn the public against Judge Leon’s court decision that the NSA is violating Fourth Amendment rights,” Klayman said to Corsi.

On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Richard Leon -- appointed by George W. Bush -- found in favor of a suit by Klayman and fellow right-wing activist Charles Strange alleging that the National Security Agency's metadata spying program is unconstitutional.

Toobin argued on CNN that while perhaps it's true that the program is invasive and unconstitutional, a nuisance litigant like Klayman -- who has sued, variously, President Barack Obama in a "birther" lawsuit demanding evidence of the president's birth in Hawaii, the Minneapolis City Pages and the Phoenix Sun-Times, his ex-wife, an Ohio family court official, the Clinton administration (18 different times) and even his own mother -- was a useful tool in a targeted political ruling.

Toobin read from p. 39 of Leon's ruling, which quoted Klayman as saying, "I think they, the NSA, are messing with me." The judge wrote that Klayman "then went on to explain that he and his clients had received inexplicable test messages and emails, not to mention a disc, containing a spyware program."

The legal analyst said that even the judge who granted the suit thinks that Klayman is a victim of "tin-foil hat paranoia" and a "lunatic."

"He had some fantasy that the NSA was after him," said Toobin. "This case is not about Larry Klayman. It's about the metadata program that affects everybody, but the idea that Larry Klayman is the representative is simply outrageous."

Klayman said on Thursday that all of this is an orchestrated hit on his credibility.

“This was a Clinton thing as much as it was an Obama thing,” he said, accusing Lemon of being a "shill" for the DNC.

“Obama and the Clintons know this was a key decision, and they don’t want us to have any oxygen,” he said. “The DNC wants to cut me down to size."

The Obama administration, he said, is carrying out "the worst violation of constitutional rights in America history.”

“The entire segment with me yesterday was structured as a hit piece, designed to bring in CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin whose job was to call me a lunatic even though he appeared not to have read Judge Leon’s decision,” he insisted, and as a result he is contemplating filing a defamation suit against the network.

Earlier this year, Klayman announced at a rally during the government shutdown that a coup was going to sweep President Barack Obama out of office on November 19. Pointing toward the White House, the former Freedom Works leader ordered Obama to "put the Koran down" and "come out with your hands up."

Klayman's November 19 "coup" rally, which he promised would bring millions to the capital and send Obama "back to Iran" turned out to be around 130 people carrying signs and voicing various complaints against the Obama administration, from "birthers" to anti-Islam activists like "Ground Zero Mosque" opponent Pamela Geller.