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Politics / ??!! Teabaggers Go to Theme Park for Wisdom, Guidance
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 4:15 PM
The Sunday Washington Post had a great story about how Teabaggers are going to Colonial Williamsburg to ask actors portraying the Founding Fathers for advice.
"General, when is it appropriate to resort to arms to fight for our liberty?" asked a tourist on a recent weekday during "A Conversation with George Washington," a hugely popular dialogue between actor and audience in the shaded backyard of Charlton's Coffeehouse.
[...]
The tourist, a self-described conservative activist named Ismael Nieves from Elmer, N.J., nodded thoughtfully. Afterward, he said this was his fifth visit to Colonial Williamsburg."We live in a very dangerous time," Nieves said. "People are looking for leadership, looking for what to do. They're looking to Washington, Jefferson, Madison."
"I want to get to know our Founding Fathers," he added. "I think we've forgotten them. It's like we've almost erased them from history."
It's a pretty hilarious article, including a few choice anecdotes about what happens when Teabaggers don't get the answer they're looking for. (The answer they're looking for, of course, involves an actor dressed as James Madison telling them they should rise up in armed revolt because there's an African-American in the White House.) You should read it all.
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Mr. Revere, I have a question. Where can I find the men's room... the one with the glory glory hallelujah hole?
Soon as I get done dischargin' my musket, there's goin' to be a rev'looshun. This is goin' be a shot heard round the world.
Soon as I get done dischargin' my musket, there's goin' to be a rev'looshun. This is goin' be a shot heard round the world.
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AHAHA! HOLY. FUCK. There is just no limit to these guys' stupidity, is there? "Erased them from history." Where- Wha-- I just- ......
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Statistically, we Americans live in one of the safest times in history. There's just no pleasing some people. Madison would'a been all "what the hell are you weirdos, Federalists?!"
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I asked the toothless dude running the Tilt-A-Whirl at the Mason County Fair once where there was a Coke machine. He set me straight. I think this is a solid plan for the future of this great nabrrlkuderd.
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I would pay so many billions of dollars to see one of the framers of the constitution brought back to life to school these useless idiots who idolize them so much.
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*Sigh!* This makes about as much sense as asking the animatronic Abe Lincoln at Disneyland its opinion on the 14th Amendment.
But then, these are the same people who venerate Ronald Reagan - a very middling actor-turned-politician - so it's really no surprise they have difficulty differentiating between an actor portraying George Washington or Thomas Paine and the actual historical personage.
I'll bet they wouldn't have batted an eye at asking Robert Young or Hugh Laurie for medical advice either...
But then, these are the same people who venerate Ronald Reagan - a very middling actor-turned-politician - so it's really no surprise they have difficulty differentiating between an actor portraying George Washington or Thomas Paine and the actual historical personage.
I'll bet they wouldn't have batted an eye at asking Robert Young or Hugh Laurie for medical advice either...
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The last paragraph of the story holds the secret to defeating the Teabaggers, just put on a 3 cornerned hat, call yourself George Washington, and they're powerless against ye!
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When I visited Colonial Williamsburg as a kid, my dad spent like 1.5 hours talking shop with the silversmith (dad's a jeweler by training). Holy shit was that boring.
I know you all really wanted to hear about that.
I know you all really wanted to hear about that.
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If I were one of those actors, I'd be all like:
"You, White landed gentry should go up into the southwest side of Philadelphia and pick up a few of the escape-ed blacks that reside there, and do it only with a empty musket, for why waste expensive lead, and to read aloud a decree from the Governors Beck and Limbaugh that declares this Martin Luther King Jr. person was a criminal charlatan of the highest order."
ahhh, if only.
"You, White landed gentry should go up into the southwest side of Philadelphia and pick up a few of the escape-ed blacks that reside there, and do it only with a empty musket, for why waste expensive lead, and to read aloud a decree from the Governors Beck and Limbaugh that declares this Martin Luther King Jr. person was a criminal charlatan of the highest order."
ahhh, if only.
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"It's almost like we've erased them from history." No, no we haven't. They're still right there in the history books. If you'd bothered to pay attention in high school, perhaps you'd have become acquainted with them sooner.
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"You may laugh.
But the parallels are obvious."
Uh...that would be the parallels between the Tea Party version of history and a theme park?
And which Universe are you Supreme Leader of, anyway?
a parallel one?
"You may laugh.
But the parallels are obvious."
Uh...that would be the parallels between the Tea Party version of history and a theme park?
And which Universe are you Supreme Leader of, anyway?
a parallel one?
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@20 There's a fun game....
Describe John Bailo's "Universe"...
What color is his sky? Are the physics the same?
Reagan is still president (and that whole Iran-Contra thing never happened), right? God Bless the Mujahdeen to fight them godless commies, right Bailo?
Seriously, John. You are Mormon, aren't you? That would explain so much.
Describe John Bailo's "Universe"...
What color is his sky? Are the physics the same?
Reagan is still president (and that whole Iran-Contra thing never happened), right? God Bless the Mujahdeen to fight them godless commies, right Bailo?
Seriously, John. You are Mormon, aren't you? That would explain so much.
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Why do the editors continue to allow the use of the word "Teabaggers", when the group is actually called the "Tea Party"?
Nobody in the group calls themselves "Teabaggers." The use of the term, especially by journalists and editors, perpetuates a negative stereotype and also gives support to the accusation that the media is just a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.
In short: Grow up.
Nobody in the group calls themselves "Teabaggers." The use of the term, especially by journalists and editors, perpetuates a negative stereotype and also gives support to the accusation that the media is just a mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.
In short: Grow up.
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"It's like we've almost erased them from history."
Actually, this is unfortunately true. Oddly it was conservatives who have removed Thomas Jefferson from the school history books due to his revolutionary idea of separation of church and state.
@22,
Actually, early on they referred to themselves as teabaggers and said they were teabagging the government. Then they learned what that meant and they stopped. Yes, when the media uses the term teabaggers now they are perpetuating a negative stereotype but not half as negative a stereotype as when a teabagger asks some actor dressed up as James Madison if he should take up arms against the government. No stereotype could possibly make them look worse than they do all on their own.
Actually, this is unfortunately true. Oddly it was conservatives who have removed Thomas Jefferson from the school history books due to his revolutionary idea of separation of church and state.
@22,
Actually, early on they referred to themselves as teabaggers and said they were teabagging the government. Then they learned what that meant and they stopped. Yes, when the media uses the term teabaggers now they are perpetuating a negative stereotype but not half as negative a stereotype as when a teabagger asks some actor dressed up as James Madison if he should take up arms against the government. No stereotype could possibly make them look worse than they do all on their own.
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@22, This is the blog of a local gay ragpaper with escort ads, not a scholarly political publication. Expecting high level journalism here makes about as much sense as teabaggers asking a theme park actor for advice.
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I can just see it. "Thomas Jefferson shall it be a time for ust to take arms against the government?"
"Fuck, dude. I'm on my smoke break. And these phony buckle shoes are killin my dogs."
"Fuck, dude. I'm on my smoke break. And these phony buckle shoes are killin my dogs."
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