Community | January 27, 2011 | 6 comments

History of Slavery (according to the Tea Party)

source: http://www.dangerousminds.net/comments/tea_party_express_founder_sal_russo/

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A must watch if you like to see power hungry morons confronted on indefensible claims.

Chris Matthews does a nice job parsing the rhetoric of Michelle Bachmann's state of the union "balloonheaded" response and putting it to Tea Party founder Sal Russo. Finally, a morsel of sanity and interjected into revisionist history and political catch phrase-ism. Russo, definitely wasn't ready.
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  • JohnA
  • freecrack
  • freecrack
  • toyotabedzrock
  • GENERALNATTY
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    • toyotabedzrock:

      hahahahahaha i thought there was only one sarah palin , where is the tea party finding these people.

      i dont know why this sal russo guy is a tea partier, back in the day italians weren't getting any love from people like the ones he is trying to represent now , if it was up to those people with tea party principles his behind would not even considered american , if italians started immigrating to america in the 1970s instead of the 1800s they would be considered hispanic just like portuguese or brazilian people and he would find himself on the wrong end of his own immigration policy.

      "In the United States, Italian immigrants were subject to extreme prejudice, racism, and, in many cases, violence. During the 19th century and early 20th century, Italian Americans were often seen as non-American, non-white criminals. Some anti-Italianism had roots in the same cause of violence against Jews. Because Italians were seen as the descendants of the Romans, who had crucified Jesus, this served as justification for violence against Italians.[9]
      The largest mass lynching in American history involved the lynching of eleven Italians in the city of New Orleans in 1891.[10] The Italians, who were thought to have assassinated police chief David Hennessy, were arrested and placed in a jail cell before being brutally murdered by a lynch mob that stormed the jailhouse, with witnesses claiming that the cheers "were nearly deafening". Cries of "hang the dagos" were heard throughout the riot. Reporting on the incident, one newspaper reported [11] Afterwards, hundreds of Italian immigrants, most of whom were not criminals, were arrested by law enforcement. Decades after, an anti-Italian phrase, "Who kill-a the chief?" remained popular in the New Orleans area.[12][13]"

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Italianism

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  • PzLuvHappeniz
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