Friday, April 23, 2010

Don't ignore the Tea Party's toxic take on history. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine

Don't ignore the Tea Party's toxic take on history. - By Ron Rosenbaum - Slate Magazine: "The muddled Tea Party version of history is more than wrong and fraudulent. It's offensive. Calling Obama a tyrant, a communist, or a fascist is deeply offensive to all the real victims of tyranny, the real victims of communism and fascism. The tens of millions murdered. It trivializes such suffering inexcusably for the T.P.ers to claim that they are suffering from similar oppression because they might have their taxes raised or be subject to demonic 'federal regulation"

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