BRIAN WILLIAMS SAID WHAT?

michellemalkin.com ^ | June 30, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

[Antoninus]

Brian's obviously read the playbook:

30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."

From Curent Communist Goals which was read into the Congressional record in 1964 by Florida Democrat A. S. Herlong, Jr.

[mewzilla]

Limbaugh now talking about this...

[TheForceOfOne]

Remember Jimmah Carter saying "The American Revolution Was Unnecessary"
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2004/10/20/124125.shtml

If it was left up to them, we wouldn't even be here.

[mark502inf]

I am sure back during the American Revolution that the Crown had but the greatest respect for the Revolutionaries in America and would never of thought them to be a threat to the Crown.

Sure, they thought of them as Revolutionaries or traitors liable to be imprisoned or hung if captured. However, context is everything. The crime of the Founding Fathers was revolt against the crown in the name of democracy & liberty, not invading some other country's embassy and holding its citizens hostage while supporting a revolt intended to establish a theocratic dictatorship. When the connection is tenuous while the differences are stark, the person positing the connection is either ignorant or deliberately trying to obfuscate.

[68skylark]

...the person positing the connection is either ignorant or deliberately trying to obfuscate.

Good comment -- I agree. And when the person making the comment is speaking to millions or people, as an authority figure who is supposed to know what he's talking about, it's disturbing.