{"id":4481,"date":"2011-04-03T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T10:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4481"},"modified":"2011-04-03T03:54:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-03T10:54:26","slug":"how-teabuggery-is-based-on-a-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/how-teabuggery-is-based-on-a-lie\/","title":{"rendered":"How Teabuggery Is Based on a Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto\" title=\"teabag-obscene\" alt=\"teabag-obscene\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/teabag-obscene.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"354\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">If we believe the propaganda, the Tea Party consider themselves independent grass-roots patriots, looking back to the Boston Tea Party for their inspiration.&#160; In reality, they are astro-turfed lackeys, blindly following their corporate masters in the honest, albeit false, belief that to do so is patriotism.&#160; This morning, at <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/karoli\/thom-hartmann-tells-real-history-tea-party\" target=\"_blank\">Crooks and Liars<\/a>, I found a video by Thom Hartman about the actual history of the Boston Tea Party as revealed in the only known book on the subject by an actual participant, in fact, the man who coined the phrase \u201cBoston Tea Party\u201d.&#160; It was not so much about a tax as it was that the tax funded a tax cut to enable the 18th century version of a multinational corporation to undercut local tea suppliers and drive them out of business.&#160; Here it is:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"510\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9UiLZk2TE8k?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">So today\u2019s Teabaggers, representing their corporate sponsors,&#160; supporting tax cuts for the super rich and breaks for giant criminal corporations, actually are the exact opposite of the original participants of the Boston Tea Party, who opposed everything Teabaggers represent.&#160; What could be a bigger lie than that?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we believe the propaganda, the Tea Party consider themselves independent grass-roots patriots, looking back to the Boston Tea Party for their inspiration.&#160; In reality, they are astro-turfed lackeys, blindly following their corporate masters in the honest, albeit false, belief that to do so is patriotism.&#160; This morning, at Crooks and Liars, I found a <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/04\/03\/how-teabuggery-is-based-on-a-lie\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}