{"id":303101,"date":"2010-02-10T15:26:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76314"},"modified":"2010-02-10T15:26:21","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T20:26:21","slug":"marvel-comics-apologizes-for-%e2%80%98tea-bag%e2%80%99-insult-based-on-twi-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/303101","title":{"rendered":"Marvel Comics Apologizes for \u2018Tea Bag\u2019 Insult Based on TWI Photo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Picket reports that Marvel Comics is partially apologizing for a storyline that portrays Captain America investigating white supremacists and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/weblogs\/watercooler\/2010\/feb\/10\/marvel-admits-mistake-captain-america-comic\/\">observing a Tea Party protest<\/a> for research. The source of the controversy: a photo I took for TWI at the first Tea Party protest on February 27, 2009.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>In preparation for the infiltration, Marvel Comics <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiusforum.com\/images\/captAmer_teapartyfear.JPG\" >depicts<\/a> the two super heroes out of costume and observing from a rooftop a street filled with what can only be described as a Tea Party protest. The scene shows crowds of people in city streets carrying signs that say, \u201cstop the socialists,\u201d \u201ctea bag libs before they tea bag you,\u201d and \u201cno to new taxes.\u201d Naturally, the people in these crowds are depicted as being filled with nothing but white folks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span id=\"more-76314\"><\/span>&#8220;According to to Mr. Quesada,&#8221; writes Picket, &#8220;the book was ready to go to printer, but the panel in question had a group of protesters handling signs with no words on them, so the editor asked the letterer to &#8216;fudge in&#8217; some quick believable slogans at the last minute. The letterer referred to this <a href=\"http:\/\/comicbookresources.com\/prev_img.php?disp=img&amp;pid=1265819490\" >sign<\/a> as a sample to work from.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That sign was photographed by me, <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/31868\/scenes-from-the-new-american-tea-party\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kerry Picket reports that Marvel Comics is partially apologizing for a storyline that portrays Captain America investigating white supremacists and observing a Tea Party protest for research. The source of the controversy: a photo I took for TWI at the first Tea Party protest on February 27, 2009. In preparation for the infiltration, Marvel Comics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4313,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-303101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4313"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}