Even comic books are demonizing Tea Party people

Commentary by Kay B. Day

Washington Tea Party, 2009.Leftwingers are obsessed with deriding the Tea Party people. Demonization of anyone who protests big government is in vogue among the political class who refer to themselves as ‘progressives’ but should instead call themselves what they really are—retrogressives (retrogs for short).

And now even Marvel Comics has taken a swipe at the political grassroots movement to lower taxes and reduce the size of government, inserting a tea bag reference in a recent Captain America storyline.

Marvel now stands with Democrat message board fans who love to write jokes about the Tea Party movement—most of them don’t realize you can only morph the phrase ‘tea bag’ only so many times  before the jokes wear thin. Leftwing pundits shake their heads and echo mindless remarks from certain Hollywood types—The Tea Party people are just mad because there’s a black man in the White House!

By the way, there is not a black man in the White House. There is a black-white man in the White House and whether retrogs admit it or not, Obama represents us all. Even the Tea Party people.

Retrog bloggers jump on the tea bag bandwagon every chance they get. Fire Dog Lake is a fairly visible blog—one of the writers has been on C-Span’s early morning talk show on occasion. Here’s a sample header: “Of Course, Captain America Would Oppose The [sic] Teabaggers.” The blogger wrote, “Captain America would tell the teabaggers that they ought to consider that freedom is something rather more than the top marginal tax rate.”

Sounds clever, but the blogger’s remark obviously shows he knows nothing at all about the people who make up those Tea Party protests. Like many of his retrog buddies, he's bought into leftwing propaganda.

We might apply that blogger’s simplistic notion in reverse—“Captain America would tell the retrogs they ought to consider that freedom is something rather more than relying on the federal government from cradle to grave.” Social justice is an illusion woven by government bottom feeders who want to enrich themselves at your and my expense, by the way. The US Constitution confers social justice on all of us.

You want real social justice? Make yourself a success on your own terms.

I've met quite a few people in the Tea Party movement. They are small business owners, computer tech types, graphic designers, college students. They are moms, dads and grandparents. They see the writing on the government wall and they fear the loss of freedom and loss of property that will ensue if our government experiences a real meltdown because of the insane amount of debt Washington grows to do things like using stimulus funds to hand out iPods to parents in Florida—a reward for filling out a survey.

Wonder how many jobs were created by spending $350,000 taxpayer dollars to hand out iPods?

Even as Rep. Nancy Pelosi and her colleagues demonize Tea Party protesters and blame President George Bush for everything from snow storms to jihad, she and her fellow Democrats continue to set records for spending.

Tea Partiers are, like many of the rest of us, concerned about government control over mortgages, car manufacturing, energy consumption, banking and if the Democrats have their way, healthcare.

Tea Partiers are, just like the rest of us, part of the fabric and cloth of America. That establishment media and Democrats malign these people as they do reflects the small minded nature of the political class and even worse, the lack of respect for people who want nothing more than to go to work every day and voice their opinions about the way their country is being run.

Demonizing Tea Partiers is in, even at an iconic comic book company. After public criticism surfaced, the Marvel story’s writer said a tea bag reference will be removed from future editions.