Thursday, March 18, 2010

Tea Party = Velvet Revolution???

Representative Steve King (R-IA) has championed the Tea Party protests as similar to the Velvet Revolution in Prague, 1989, when protests from the people forced changes in the Communist government of Czechoslovokia. Thus, King is likening the Obama government with a communist totalitarian government, and he urges the people to rise up against the government. Glenn Beck has said much the same thing.

Jon Stewart -- as always, the one who gets at the truth -- has a marvelously funny episode with "correspondent" John Oliver -- in which it is revealed the benefits the Velvet Revolution brought in. Watch it at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/18/stewart-takes-on-tea-bagg_n_503858.html

And guess what one of those benefits was:

****Mandatory Universal Health Care ****

Sounds ok by me. But isn't "government take-over of health care" what the Tea Party crowd is protesting? Maybe Rep. King has got his revolutions mixed up.

Ralph
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  1. Don HamelMarch 19, 2010 at 9:55 AM

    King didn't have anything mixed up. He was counting on how little his audience knows of political history, and anything that happens outside of America's borders.

    It's a shame that Stewart and Colbert seem to be the only ones capable of swinging at the slow pitches the right keeps serving up to their base.

    The liberal media is a myth, all our significant news services are corporate owned. And there's no such thing as a liberal corporation.

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