Thread: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist

Can you folks look into this? If this is accurate, then this is pretty crazy!

http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/02/08/ ... nd-racist/

Is Marvel comics and their latest version of PC Captain America bashing the Tea Parties?

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Marvel's Captain America: Let's Go After Tea Partiers!

By D. S. Hube

Tue, 02/09/2010 - 16:23 ET

It seems that even the most [what appears to be] level-headed of comics writers these days just can't resist the pressure to delve into the "progressive" political cesspool. This time it's Captain America scribe Ed Brubaker. Hunting Muses lays it out:
Enter Captain America.
You know, the WW2 hero who died recently and just came back to life to fight a 20 ft tall Red Skull in front of the Lincoln memorial. I had heard a lot of good things from Ed Brubaker. I picked up some trades shortly before Cap’s death, read them, and then finished out Bru’s run because they were great. Right up there with Geoff John’s Green Lantern series as what I want from a comic.

Then Brubaker had to go and not only insult me, but violate the core of what Captain America is all about in issue 602 “Two Americas part 1″. Here are 3 consecutive pages from the comic to help you get a full context:

Savor the lines a moment:

“A grassroots anti-government armyâ€

Now that seems a wee bit racist to me



Kathyet

Updated February 10, 2010

Tea Party Jab to Be Zapped From Captain America Comic, Writer Says
By Joshua Rhett Miller

- FOXNews.com

A "tea bag" reference in a recent Captain America comic book that has angered the Tea Party movement will be removed by Marvel Comics in future editions, the story's writer told FoxNews.com

Writer Ed Brubaker told FoxNews.com that Marvel Comics will remove a "tea bag" reference from future editions of Captain America No. 602.

A "tea bag" reference in a recent Captain America comic book that has angered the Tea Party movement will be removed by Marvel Comics in future editions, the story's writer told FoxNews.com.

In issue No. 602 of Captain America, "Two Americas, Part One," the title hero and The Falcon, a black superhero from New York City, stumble upon a protest rally in Boise, Idaho. They see scores of protesters carrying signs that say "Stop the Socialists!" and "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!"

Captain America says the protest appears to be an "anti-tax thing," and The Falcon jokes that he likely would not be welcomed into the crowd of "angry white folks."

Ed Brubaker, who wrote the story, told FoxNews.com he did not write the "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!" sign shown in the edition, insisting that the words were added by someone in "lettering or production" just before being shipped to the printer. It will be changed in subsequent editions, he said.

"I don't know who did it, probably someone who thought it was funny," Brubaker wrote in an e-mail. "I didn't think so, personally. That's the sign being changed to something more generic for the trade reprint, because I and my editor were both shocked to see it."

But the change may come too late to placate a chorus of critics who noticed the apparent jab at the Tea Party movement and who accused Marvel of making supervillains out of patriotic Americans.

Michael Johns, a board member of the Nationwide Tea Party Coalition, said he felt the "juvenile" dig will ultimately do more damage to Marvel's brand than to the Tea Party movement. He also disputed the insinuation that the growing movement lacks diversity.

"The Tea Party movement has been very reflective of broad concerns of all Americans," Johns said. "Membership is across ethnic, religious and even political lines."

Johns accused Brubaker of "blame-shifting" and questioned why an apology or retraction hadn't been issued as soon as the writer or Marvel executives noticed the politically charged signs.

Brubaker, meanwhile, has made no secret of his political leanings.

He said he wrote the script "four or five" months ago, which was shortly before he posted critical messages on his Twitter account regarding former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and former President George W. Bush.

"Memo to Bachman and the rest of the tea crowd -- We had a revolution already, it's called an election," Brubaker tweeted on Nov. 5.

Nine days later, he wrote: "What did we learn this week? That Sarah Palin is a lying idiot. Hey, welcome to 2008 again."

But Brubaker was adamant that he did not intend to imply that the group of protesters in the comic book were Tea Partiers.

"I was simply using them to show the mood in the country in various places outside Captain America and the Falcon's usual home, New York City," he wrote. "It's very similar to other things we've done in the comic, showing leftwing protest crowds back during the election season in 2008."

A spokeswoman for Marvel Comics did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Herb London, president of the Hudson Institute, a think tank based in Washington, said the protest scene in the comic book is merely the latest attempt in a "systematic effort" to chastise the grassroots Tea Party movement.

"I was perplexed by this," London said. "It seems to me there was a clear effort on someone's part to undermine the Tea Party movement."

London said the comic strip insinuates the protesters are "loonies," and he questioned The Falcon's reference to race.

"It involves sensitivities," London said. "There's no reason for something like that to be included."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02 ... a-removed/

Marvel Comics: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist



Please read the reply to this article:


In a message dated 2/9/2010 1:08:08 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, writes:

All,

Spent lunch doing this letter instead of feeding my gullet. I guess it’s time for me to burn my Captain America t-shirt. This is a copy of the letter I sent to Marvel.


It has come to my attention that Marvel comics, Captain America, has a new enemy, some white supremacist/terrorist group affiliated with Tea Party Groups.

Really?

Having trouble finding a group to demonize so pick on the only true American group out there?

Are you guys now just a bunch of left wing pinheads who feel you have to get the children of this country to turn against their parents who may be members of this group?

Is it that you are so un-educated that you do not realize this is the same method Stalin, Hitler and Mao used to turn children against parents so they could easily take control of their respective countries and have a ready made group of future militants to tap into as they needed them?

Were this 30 years ago when I was in the military I would definitely think A; somebody made a mistake or B; there must be a communist in control of the comics now. We would have had a mass comic book burning and gotten gobs of press. With the current attitude in this country I am not sure which way to think, but after having been on the receiving end of verbal abuse just because I think our current group of elitists in DC need to be replaced, I am beginning to see the light.

For your information, one of my heroes as I was growing up was Captain America. I had a shield key chain for years till it disintegrated. I have a Captain America right here on my computer holding an American Flag right next to pictures of my sons that I look at every day as impetus for my work and my activism.

I have a Captain America t-shirt that I wear to Tea Party protests when weather allows.

So which university of lower learning did your current crop of writers/animators come from?

I hate to say it, but now when we have future stand outs, I will have to protest you and your current crop of comic book writers by having a no marvel and no captain america( no longer deserves capitalization as you write it) sign in my collection, it being related to such things we will get more attention from those who are curious and I will inform them of your devious attack on us.

I will no longer allow my children to bring home marvel comics or watch marvel shows or new marvel movies, I lived for Spiderman comics when young and loved the movies, which I will now make disappear from my shelves of movies and I will inform many of my fellow protestors and parents to think about doing the same.

So I must ask you, is it worth it to demonize us? With published material sitting on shelves for longer and longer periods of time and more and more publishing houses going under, is it worth it?

What does Stan Lee think of this? Does he, one whom I idolized when I was younger as a great American as he helped to pen so many American heroes, condone this? Has he been twisted as your writers must have been to think WE are the enemies of our country and not those socialists we are trying to get rid of?

I await a response, but being a realist, I know I will never see one as the many letters to the editors of the many local publications I have submitted over the last year. I thank you, regardless of your response, for allowing me to voice my opinion. Strange, but that is the whole crux of this letter and my anger at your actions. FREEDOM to disagree.

God Bless You!

God Bless America!

Eyes Wide Open



Garry R. Dumas

Father, Son, Husband and Patriot

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