{"id":1556,"date":"2010-02-10T14:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T22:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2015-10-21T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T19:28:46","slug":"captain-america-vs-the-tea-crusaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1556","title":{"rendered":"Captain America vs. The Tea Crusaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Misc\/tea-crusades-logo.png\" alt=\"Tea Crusaders\" align=\"right\" \/>In an epic battle of good vs. evil, the archetypal superhero, Captain America, has come out <a href=\"http:\/\/comicbookresources.com\/?page=article&#038;id=24784\" target=\"_blank\">four square against<\/a> hysterical protest movements that embrace racism and disseminate disinformation in pursuit of a greedy, intolerant agenda: i.e. Tea Crusaders (It aint no party).<\/p>\n<p>Actually, Captain America attempted to express his revulsion of the Tea Crusaders, but agents working for the rightist cabal succeeded in getting his publisher, Marvel Comics, to apologize and remove the offending comments from future printings.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy involved a short segment of the comic wherein Captain America&#8217;s alter-ego, Steve Rogers, was observing a protest march by a group of right-wing, anti-tax, activists. The marchers, in an accurate portrayal of reality, were an all-white mob of angry tea-volutionaries carrying signs that recall the Tea Party actions last year. The part that got the Crusaders all worked up contained this image with a sign saying <em>&#8220;Tea Bag the Libs Before They Tea Bag You.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/Pix\/Misc\/capt-america-tea.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure I understand what the Crusaders are grumbling about. The sign being carried by the comic protester is one that has made repeated appearances at Tea Party events. David Weigel of the Washington Independent <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090228125843\/http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/31868\/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party\" target=\"_blank\">captured it on film<\/a>. It is a sentiment that they readily accept and promote. Now, all of a sudden, they are outraged by their own slogans.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of their bellyaching, Marvel Comics, a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company, took the exceedingly cautious (i.e. cowardly) move of apologizing. And since there was nothing about the comic that was false or defamatory, the only reason for the reversal must be to mollify prospective comic book readers who may also be Tea Baggers.<\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is that, while Captain America may be able to defeat the most vile and villainous enemies ever dreamed up in the imaginary world of comics, he was vanquished by a very real enemy, an international corporate media conglomerate. I&#8217;d say we need to call the X-Men, but they are already in the employ of super-villain Rupert Murdoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an epic battle of good vs. evil, the archetypal superhero, Captain America, has come out four square against hysterical protest movements that embrace racism and disseminate disinformation in pursuit of a greedy, intolerant agenda: i.e. Tea Crusaders (It aint no party). Actually, Captain America attempted to express his revulsion of the Tea Crusaders, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,12,1],"tags":[719,720,30,534,721],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-culture","category-big-media","category-general","tag-captain-america","tag-marvel-comics","tag-rupert-murdoch","tag-tea-party","tag-walt-disney"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-p6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29930,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=29930","url_meta":{"origin":1556,"position":0},"title":"Fear Of A Black Captain America: Fox News Is Outraged That Hero Opposes Racist Vigilantes","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/20\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Exercising their renowned obsession for inventing trite pseudo-controversies, Fox News has managed to imagine a travesty in the latest issue of Marvel Comic's Captain America. 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