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Thom Hartmann: The TRUE story of the Tea Party

Thom Hartmann's daily take. A rare glimpse... new to me!

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Comment by waldopaper on April 11, 2011 at 3:38pm
I think more Teepers need to see this... while they are trying to "save taxpayer money" by de-funding Planned Parenthood and NPR.
Comment by pan on April 13, 2011 at 7:20am
Thanks for posting this.   The whole Idea of throwing tea into the harbor to protest taxes being levied to raise a British army (as I was taught in my grade school history class) didn't quite make sense - it never really connected.  Protesting a government backed monopoly does.
Comment by Mouse on April 13, 2011 at 3:24pm

Golly.

Hmm.

Comment by waldopaper on April 16, 2011 at 1:27pm

Boy-howdy was I surprised!  The younger folk said they KNEW that version... not the one (as pan and i were told in grade school) that it was a "protest against higher taxes (without 'representation') to raise an occupying army."  They seem to fear the word "socialism" a lot less now... but the conditioning runs as deep as you can imagine. 

 

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