{"id":5438,"date":"2010-02-10T09:08:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2010-02-10T09:08:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T16:08:20","slug":"ed-brubaker-again-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/02\/10\/ed-brubaker-again-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Brubaker again, huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Looking over the coverage of the new controversy over a negative allusion to &#8220;Tea Party Protests&#8221; being in Captain America&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; the focal point from your &#8220;newsbusters&#8221; and such seem to hit around wondering why Captain America isn&#8217;t fighting the Nazis anymore?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2010\/02\/09\/tea-party-reference-captain-america-removed\/\">One striking point.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>In issue No. 602 of Captain America, &#8220;Two Americas, Part One,&#8221; the title hero and The Falcon, a black superhero from New York City, stumble upon a protest rally in Boise, Idaho. They see scores of protesters carrying signs that say &#8220;Stop the Socialists!&#8221; and &#8220;Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Captain America says the protest appears to be an &#8220;anti-tax thing,&#8221; and The Falcon jokes that he likely would not be welcomed into the crowd of &#8220;angry white folks.&#8221; [&#8230;]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>He also disputed the insinuation that the growing movement lacks diversity. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Tea Party movement has been very reflective of broad concerns of all Americans,&#8221; Johns said. &#8220;Membership is across ethnic, religious and even political lines.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s&#8230; um&#8230; be real.\u00c2\u00a0 Running over to this recent image of a Tea Party demonstration, I don&#8217;t see one single black person!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5439\" title=\"captainamericateaparty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/captainamericateaparty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"captainamericateaparty\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/captainamericateaparty-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/captainamericateaparty.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mildly annoyed by the controversy that focuses on the &#8220;Tea BagThe Libs before they Tea Bag You&#8221; sign when maybe the &#8220;No Govt In My Medicare&#8221; sign makes them look worse for wear.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyway, I&#8217;m pretty sure the &#8220;Tea Bag the Libs&#8221; sign is an act of agent provacateuring, and not an actual protester.\u00c2\u00a0 That&#8217;s part of the story, right?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5440\" title=\"captainamericateaparty2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/captainamericateaparty2-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"captainamericateaparty2\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/captainamericateaparty2-300x107.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/captainamericateaparty2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boiseweekly.com\/CityDesk\/archives\/2010\/01\/25\/boise-tea-bagger-cameo-in-captain-america-comic\">look at the &#8220;Local Color&#8221; of Boise, Idaho being featured<\/a> is the more interesting bit of commentary.<\/p>\n<p>But, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gCR83LxGKkg\">Captain America has falling, and is calling for your help<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Then again, that one suffers from the same anti-patriotitism &#8212; anti-American Exceptionalism &#8211;, and would get the same aggrivation.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m just waiting for Captain America to meet up with his new arch nemesis: Orly Taitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking over the coverage of the new controversy over a negative allusion to &#8220;Tea Party Protests&#8221; being in Captain America&#8230; &#8230; the focal point from your &#8220;newsbusters&#8221; and such seem to hit around wondering why Captain America isn&#8217;t fighting the Nazis anymore? One striking point. In issue No. 602 of Captain America, &#8220;Two Americas, Part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5441,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/5441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}