New Facts Emerge About Boston Tea Party

[Lorizael]

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/jan/16/andrea-tantaros/tantaros-says-americans-dont-know-their-history-th/

Fox News co-host Andrea Tantaros scolded Americans for not knowing their history on The Five on Wednesday. She inadvertently provided proof moments later, in the form of … Andrea Tantaros.

Tantaros and other The Five panelists were talking about a new report from the conservative Heritage Foundation, which ranked America only 12th in terms of economic freedom. Tantaros said countries ahead of the United States, like Estonia, are more economically free because they "actually know their history, and they study their history, and they study ours and what we’re doing here."

Americans, on the other hand, have gotten lazy and complacent, she suggested.

"If you ask most people, they don’t even know why we left England," she said. "They don’t even know why some guy in Boston got his head blown off because he tried to secretly raise the tax on tea. Most people don’t know that."

It's true. Most people don't know that.

[Aeson]

I didn't know that either.

[Guynemer]

You learn something new everyday.

[rah]

Maybe Ben will check in and give us his take on it.

[Lorizael]

I'm not reading BK's posts anymore, but his usual tactic in a case like this is to deflect by pointing out some instance in which a liberal was an idiot about history.

[Dr Strangelove]

Who got their head blown off in Boston back in 1773?

[The Mad Monk]

Sounds like a bastard child of the Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre.

[MikeH]

My favourite bit of this is the idea you can secretly raise a tax.

How do you get people to pay it?

[N35t0r]

Pay thieves to steal the money off peoples' homes?

[DinoDoc]

My favourite bit of this is the idea you can secretly raise a tax.

Sounds like New Labour's behavior. What with all those stealth taxes.

[kentonio]

Wait until you hear about the part where George Washington ended it by shooting an Indian redcoat with his laser eyes.

[DinoDoc]

Wait until you hear about the part where George Washington ended it by shooting an Indian redcoat with his laser eyes.

This is the true history of the Revolutionary War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepy_...28TV_series%29

The UK was consorting with Demons.

[rah]

And Lincoln was a vampire slayer.

[Ben Kenobi]

deflect by pointing out some instance in which a liberal was an idiot about history.

The same way Palin was actually right about Paul Revere? The same man who was court martialed for dereliction of duty during the Penobscot expedition? Just because there's a narrative that certain people choose to promote, doesn't mean it's actually what happened. Revere's a hero because of what one descendent of Revere wrote in Victorian times.

[pchang]

You guys are far too trusting and complacent. This is the beginning of a plan to make violent overthrow of the government seem OK by recasting our history.