{"id":3879,"date":"2010-04-26T18:34:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=3879"},"modified":"2010-04-26T18:38:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T23:38:30","slug":"the-tea-partys-toxic-take-on-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2010\/04\/26\/the-tea-partys-toxic-take-on-history\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tea Party&#8217;s Toxic Take on History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Follow <a title=\"Article in Slate\" href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2251669\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this link<\/strong><\/a> to the story in Slate by Ron Rosenbaum.<\/p>\n<p>He describes what is toxic about the Tea Party&#8217;s distorted version of history.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The muddled Tea Party version of history is more than wrong and  fraudulent. It&#8217;s offensive. Calling Obama a tyrant, a communist, or a  fascist is deeply offensive to all the <em>real<\/em> victims of tyranny,  the <em>real<\/em> victims of communism and fascism. The tens of  millions murdered. It trivializes such suffering inexcusably for the  T.P.ers to claim that <em>they<\/em> are suffering from similar  oppression because they might have their taxes raised or be subject to  demonic &#8220;federal regulation.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what to make of the link to Victoria Jackson&#8217;s interview on Faux Noise. Is she still acting the ditzy airhead upon which she based her comedic career or is that really what passes for her thinking?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow this link to the story in Slate by Ron Rosenbaum. He describes what is toxic about the Tea Party&#8217;s distorted version of history. The muddled Tea Party version of history is more than wrong and fraudulent. It&#8217;s offensive. Calling Obama a tyrant, a communist, or a fascist is deeply offensive to all the real [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3879"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3881,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3879\/revisions\/3881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}