{"id":317669,"date":"2010-02-11T22:27:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=22056"},"modified":"2010-02-11T22:27:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:27:39","slug":"captain-america-attends-a-tea-party-but-he%e2%80%99s-not-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/317669","title":{"rendered":"Captain America Attends a Tea Party, But He\u2019s Not Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Gilson writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/riff\/2010\/02\/captain-america-vs-tea-party\">Mother Jones<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>President Obama may be <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/politics\/2010\/02\/obama-secret-police\">secretly plotting to declare martial law<\/a>, but the Tea Partiers now face a more immediate threat: Captain America. Conservative blogger Warner Todd Huston has checked out issue 602 of the long-running series and concludes that Marvel Comics is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publiusforum.com\/2010\/02\/08\/marvel-comics-captain-america-says-tea-parties-are-dangerous-and-racist\">&#8220;making patriotic Americans into [its] newest super villains.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/CapAmTeaParty.jpg\" alt=\"Captain America Attends a Tea Party\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-22057\" height=\"436\" width=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The offending storyline finds Captain America and his African-American sidekick the Falcon in Idaho, where they encounter a Tea Party rally. They then scheme to infiltrate the antitax protesters as a way to get to their real target, a militia group known as the Watchdogs. The Falcon is skeptical: &#8220;I don&#8217;t exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks.&#8221; It&#8217;s not the first time the Star Spangled Avenger&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Gilson writes on Mother Jones: President Obama may be secretly plotting to declare martial law, but the Tea Partiers now face a more immediate threat: Captain America. Conservative blogger Warner Todd Huston has checked out issue 602 of the long-running series and concludes that Marvel Comics is &#8220;making patriotic Americans into [its] newest super [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317669","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\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}