Posted on 02/10/2010 5:07:40 AM PST by myknowledge
Marvel Comic’s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who’ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in his little red booties, but he’s sure that the Tea Party folks are dangerous racists, too.
Isn’t it wonderful that a decades old American comic book hero is now being used to turn readers against our very political system, being used to slander folks that are standing up for real American principles in real life — and one called “Captain America” at that?
In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called “Two Americas.” In it the current Captain (there have been a few of them, apparently) is on the trail of a faux Captain America that is mentally deranged and getting chummy with some white supremacist, anti-government, survivalists types going by the name of “the Watchdogs.” While investigating this subversive group, Captain America and his partner The Falcon — a black super hero — have decided to try and infiltrate the secretive organization.
In preparation for the infiltration, Marvel Comics depicts the two super heroes out of costume and observing from a rooftop a street filled with what can only be described as a Tea Party protest. The scene shows crowds of people in city streets carrying signs that say, “stop the socialists,” “tea bag libs before they tea bag you,” and “no to new taxes.” Naturally, the people in these crowds are depicted as being filled with nothing but white folks.
The black character asks the out of costume Captain, “What the hell is this?” And follows that with, “looks like some kind of anti-tax protest.” The Falcon character then snidely tells his partner the Captain, “So I guess this whole ‘hate the government’ vibe around here isn’t limited to the Watchdogs.”
The two then discuss their plan to infiltrate the subversive group that Marvel comics seems to be linking to the Tea Party movement. This discussion culminates in The Falcon wondering how a black man would do such a thing. “I don’t exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks,” he tells the incognito Captain America.
The Captain tells him, “no it’s perfect… this all fits right into my plan.” After this we find that the Captain’s plan is to send the black man into a redneck bar to pretend to be a black man working for the IRS and to get everyone all mad… because… well, you know that every white person is a racist that hates black civil servants, right?
So, there you have it, America. Tea Party protesters just “hate the government,” they are racists, they are all white folks, they are angry, and they associate with secretive white supremacist groups that want to over throw the U.S. government.
Bet you didn’t know that when you were indulging your right as a citizen to protest your government that you were a dangerous white supremacist that wants to destroy the country, did you? Bet you didn’t realize that your reverence for the U.S. Constitution was a subversive thing to do, did you? And I’ll also bet that you never imagined that you’d scare the little blue panties off of Captain America!
Nice going Marvel Comics. Thanks for making patriotic Americans into your newest super villains.
There is no violence and hate, it’s all generated by the leftists themselves.
Anyone else notice the implied resemblance?
Very similar. I also noticed that the depicted crowd is dessed for cold weather. It looks like the artist has abandoned Global Warming.
And this little weapon, WTF does it imply?
*sigh* I remember reading Marvel Comics as a kid. They were the best.
Stan Lee has lost his friggin’ mind. Screw Marvel, I hope they go broke.
No they can't. To a Commielib the very existence of a victorious figure that disagrees with them is the same as bringing up the fall of Jerusalem in 1100 to Osama bin Laden. It is a direct challenge to the sovereignty of their god and is seen as a blasphemy against their religion.
This is all the more reason to use this to tweak them. I for one have begun referring to the anti tax protesters as "Abolitionists" because the tax code is the modern equivalent of slavery and it really annoys the Obama worshipers.
I was wondering about that myself.
Fantasy of the “artist’s” idea of what an assault rifle looks like?
When is mac daddy going to do the same?
NUNTI SAI
Col. West is my new Capt. America!
According to the 'rats at Marvel, Tea Party members are racists bordering on terrorists, who must be crushed by the noble patriotic Statists.
(BTW, I've posted a big chunk of my next novel on my website. About the first 1/3.)
“Watchdogs” ~~ “Oathkeepers”?
Leftists have to politicize everything, its what they are.
I never liked comics except for Classics Illustrated.
Those comic guys they make the movies from today are almost all professed rabid progressives.
The more the Statists whine & snivel, the more Tea Party members accumulate ;-)
marvel has been pro liberal for a while. I’m surprised they didn’t make more of it by having the “racist groups” kill the Falcon. The cover could have been a shadowy image of the Falcon, beaten, bleeding, and drooping away from captain america’s arms. They could have titled it “Death of a Dream” issue of 1 of 4. They could have sold dozens of copies!
Maybe in a future issue of Fantastic Four, they can have Reed Richards and Ben Grimm infiltrate the black panthers as they attempt to intimidate voters at polling places.
he looks a bit like stan the man lee, too.
Who's the head of Disney these days? Oh, yeah I googled it and came up with this story:
In an interview, Disney CEO Bob Iger notes that more Marvel games will be published for the "high end" systems while Disney branded games seem to sell better on the Wii and DS.
So expect to see Captain America deployed in a video game to kill racists, terrorists and tea party types soon.
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