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Hey, Kids! Tea Party Politics Now as Simple as a Coloring Book
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Now the Tea Party movement doubles as an art project! Credit: ColoringBook.com
How jealous the conservative commentator must be of your new Tea Party coloring book. How he must wish he had a coloring book when he was a child to express his outrage at government spending and liberal politics. All the coloring books when he was growing up in the '60s featured socialist characters like Yogi Bear.
(Yogi lives in a national park, the result of a government land grab that started in 1872 under the administration of notorious liberal Ulysses S. Grant. And stealing pic-a-nic baskets? Clearly a Marxist metaphor for the redistribution of wealth. There's just not enough red and yellow in the crayon box for a pinko like Yogi.)
But today's kids live in a world of post-Palin enlightenment, and they can reduce the complexities of modern politics to a coloring book.
CBS News reports you can thank Really Big Coloring Books of Clayton, Mo., for that. Owner Wayne Bell tells the network his company is not political. He also publishes a coloring book based on President Barack Obama. Bell says he stands firmly in the middle, collecting money from both sides.
Nonetheless, Fox News reports Bell has received death threats since the coloring book was released Sept. 5. Police in Clayton tell the network that's news to them. Bell admits he hasn't exactly reported the incidents to anyone. Well, except the media.
"We don't want to be overly dramatic about what's happening," Bell tells Fox.
Bell insists his coloring book just lets kids out there know what the Tea Party is all about.
"In 1773, we had a Tea Party and this led to freedom from high taxes," the book reads. "Today, we are having another Tea Party and this will lead to freedom from high taxes again!"
Psst, kids, the Boston Tea Party in 1773 was actually more about taxation without representation than the tax rate. And by the way, the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis reports that federal, state and local income taxes consumed 9.2 percent of all personal income in 2009 -- the lowest rate since 1950.
Of course, it's hard to get all that in a coloring book.
The important thing, kiddies, is that you stock up on crayons so you can color all the people who disagree with you one way and all your supporters another.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
10-05-2010 @ 8:50PM
Natalja said...Yeah....nothing like politics and screwed up government gets a kid's attention going. I knew there was something missing while I was growing up. I wasted too much time playing outdoors and with my dolls when I could have colored wigs of our founding fathers. Yeah.....where was that book then?
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10-05-2010 @ 11:01PM
RM said...THE TEA PARTY IS ONE OF HONOR, COURAGE, STRENGTH AND WILL WHOOP THE LIVING SHIT OUT OF OBAMA AND MOST ALL THE DEMOCRAPS THIS COMING ELECTION. THOSE WHO MAKE FUN OF THE TEA PARTY WILL STRANGLE ON THEIR OWN SPIT.....!!!
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10-07-2010 @ 2:07PM
frank said...Looks to me like tom henderson doesn't need a coloring book and crayons to color those who disagree with him.
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10-07-2010 @ 2:21PM
frank said...And Tom, wonder if you had anthing to say about riverdale and the Archie "gang" adding a homosexual to a comic book that kids read. you seem to be so concerned about what they are exposed to. By the sarcasm evident about yogi bear, i have figure you are a lib. so anything opposite your view bad for kids, homosexual good?
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10-07-2010 @ 7:05PM
Margot Dolittle said...Actually, Henderson did write a story about Archie comics adding a gay character.
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10-30-2010 @ 8:16PM
Phil said...I met Glenn today at a book signing in Westboro MA. What a great guy, he signed my book and then asked if he could sign my Arizona shirt.There was a huge crowd of great people there, young and old, patiently waiting their turn to say hello to Glenn. I can't see Glenn being green with envy at anything, especially a Tea Party coloring book. That's just foolishness to even say that.
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