From Wonkette --> Rick Perry put on his best mom shirt and sweat all over the stage as he performed in a severe, drooling twang the Tea Party’s most cherished political tradition, the factually false re-telling of historical events. Here he is making up things about the original Boston Tea Party, telling everybody that “there was a time in this country when people were afraid to go out in public. You go back to Boston in the 1770s and people had to disguise themselves,” which is not, of course, actually the case. Our money’s on “Rick Perry conveniently confused Tea Party mythology with the popular narrative of persecution suffered by early Christians for political gain,” but that’s as much as we’re going to think about it.
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Stormsingersays...Wow. Just...wow.
Fact-free, what a world they live in!
marinarasays...what exactly did he get wrong?
tea partiers dressed as indians to disguise themselves.
I mean it wasn't a public protest, but it was a disguise
Boise_Libsays...>> ^marinara:
what exactly did he get wrong?
tea partiers dressed as indians to disguise themselves.
I mean it wasn't a public protest, but it was a disguise
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Boise_Libsays...*promote
siftbotsays...Self promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 4:06pm PDT - promote requested by original submitter Boise_Lib.
brycewi19says...purdy ≠ pretty
Phreezdrydsays...The tea party doesn't generally seem to know, understand or care anything about what the original event was all about.
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