Up The Deise
04-12-2010, 10:33 AM
Daniel Hannan
When writing about the United States, British columnists tend to take their cue from the American Left. So it is hardly surprising that the Tea Party Movement should be seen in this country, as a) a rabble of unreconstructed racist rednecks or b) a gang of dupes being manipulated by wealthy Republicans.
Tea Partiers can take comfort that the original Tea Party in 1773 was written off in similar terms. The protestors were said to be a) drunken sailors augmented by vagabonds and Mohawk Indians or b) a gang of dupes being manipulated by Samuel Adams and his conspirators. In fact, as we now know, they represented the spirit of a nation.
There is more (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100033522/the-truth-about-the-tea-party-movement/)
When writing about the United States, British columnists tend to take their cue from the American Left. So it is hardly surprising that the Tea Party Movement should be seen in this country, as a) a rabble of unreconstructed racist rednecks or b) a gang of dupes being manipulated by wealthy Republicans.
Tea Partiers can take comfort that the original Tea Party in 1773 was written off in similar terms. The protestors were said to be a) drunken sailors augmented by vagabonds and Mohawk Indians or b) a gang of dupes being manipulated by Samuel Adams and his conspirators. In fact, as we now know, they represented the spirit of a nation.
There is more (http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100033522/the-truth-about-the-tea-party-movement/)