Posted on 10/20/2013 7:02:38 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
October 21, 2013 4:00 AM
The Maligned Tea Party
The Lefts characterizations just arent true.
By Charles C. W. Cooke
Even for the most cultivated people, the 19th-century humorist Josh Billings quipped, it aint ignorance causes so much trouble; its folks knowing so much that aint so.
Ideally, Platos promise that the process of learning would teach us how little we know would apply universally, thus encouraging not only humility but caution, too. Yet when politics is involved, the temptation toward calumny often proves too much.
There is almost certainly no more maligned group in American public life than the Tea Party. Progressives and many of the Americans they have succeeding in influencing just know that the movement is chock-full of Bible-thumping, racist, uncaring, poorly educated, narrow-minded, hypocritical, gun-toting, and scientifically illiterate know-nothings. And how do they know this? Well, because the Tea Party must be like this, right?
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/361725/maligned-tea-party-charles-c-w-cooke
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