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Tea Baggers angry over Marvel Comic's depiction

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Gnomesmusher

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100211/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1129

I don't know what's to apologize for. The Tea Baggers ARE a bunch of angry white folks who don't like the government and carry crazy stupid signs. Maybe they should apologize for being stupid and irrational instead of being portrayed for what they are.
 
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That's fantastic. Worst thing about this story is that they apologised over it.
 
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First paragraph:
YahooNews said:
Since 1941, Captain America has been one of the most popular comic book characters around. The fictional super-patriot fought Nazis during World War II, took on those who burned the American flag during the Vietnam era, and raked in hundreds of millions of dollars for Marvel Comics along the way.
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And yet at the end:
YahooNews said:
In response to Marvel's explanation and apology, Tea Party Nation founder Judson Phillips told Yahoo! News that it "sounds less like a genuine 'we're sorry' than it does a 'we're sorry we got caught' statement."

"When I was a child in the '60s Captain America was my favorite superhero," he said. "It's really sad to see what has traditionally been a pro-America figure being used to advance a political agenda."
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So a pro-American, anti-Nazi, anti-pacifist Captain America isn't advancing a political agenda, but Captain America dissing tea baggers is, huh?



Tea Baggers... :roll: ...couldn't think their way out of a wet paper bag...
 
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Didn't they kill off Cap because they got pissed off with the bullshit they were getting from both ends of the political spectrum? I've never seen Palin and Red Skull in the same place at the same time though...

:?
 
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I see nothing funny about tying the Tea Party movement to the one in the comic and then inferring that they are racists. That alone may have been the only thing that needed apology, not the depiction of government hating angry white folks.
 
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Sorry but when a good chunk of Teabaggers are also birthers carrying signs that have racist undertones and have pretty much made an issue out of a non-issue of his birth status (because a black man with a foreign name can't possibly be an American born citizen) then uh yeah, I see no misrepresentation on Marvel's part when the Falcon commented on how a bunch of angry white folk isn't going to like a black man who works for the government.

If there's any inferrence that the Tea Baggers are racists, you have only the Birthers to blame.
 
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Does this mean that all atheists are condescending jerks who belittle those who have faith because of the extreme views of a minority of athiests? I mean if we're going to start painting people with a broad brush let me know, because I've been withholding a lot of ire towards many groups of people under the pretense that generalizations were both unfair and closed-minded.
 
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Does this mean that all atheists are condescending jerks who belittle those who have faith because of the extreme views of a minority of athiests? I mean if we're going to start painting people with a broad brush let me know, because I've been withholding a lot of ire towards many groups of people under the pretense that generalizations were both unfair and closed-minded.
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Except that Atheists aren't consistently going around forming such "parties" displaying this "generalization" over and over again. If I had different intentions than what I've seen from the Tea Baggers, I would not associate myself with them nor go to such rallies. Hell, Sarah Freaking Palin wants to be the leader of this "movement". Does one really want to be linked to this group unless they value all of those generalizations whether they admit it or not? Like it or not, that's what the Tea Baggers stand for.

Besides, generalization or not, TYT was right. If it were the left complaining about negative portrayal, there likely would be no apology much less a retraction. I mean come on, these are the same people who call the left every name in the book, yet they cry about a comic book portrayal? THAT'S the real kicker here.
 
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Hell, Sarah Freaking Palin wants to be the leader of this "movement".
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Really? Why did she charge them $100,000 to speak at one of their events?

I have to agree that if you show up to a tea-bag rally and don't promptly turn around to leave, you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

 
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I am so sick of it. Now they are pissing and moaning over a damned comic book.
Why do we call them tea baggers? Because that's as close as you can come to a phrase that describes someone that sticks their head up someone's ass.
Me thinks they doth protest too much.
 
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