Alert teabaggers find "commies" in early Pilgrim settlements.

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Happy Thanksgiving! Right Jabs Pilgrims For ... Communism?
(Talking Points Memo, November 25, 2010)

It's reasonable to assume that tea partiers, Fox News hosts and conservative bloggers look forward to today for the same reason most Americans do: the turkey (or tofurkey, depending on your preference) and the football (or cable TV marathons, depending on your preference.)

But those folks also look forward to Thanksgiving for another reason that it's equally reasonable to imagine most Americans don't: the celebration of capitalism's final victory over communist-leaning Pilgrims.

"Sadly, few Americans know the real story of the early colonists," FreedomWorks' Julie Borowski wrote yesterday. "For evidence of the failures of communism, we do not need to look to disastrous experiments in foreign lands. In fact, the Plymouth Plantation is one of the most apparent examples of the failures of collectivism."

Is there nothing about America these people won't try to ruin with their crazy lies and misinformation? Read the article for the ritual debunking.

[SpiralHawk]

1. "...and Barbara Fritchee was a lib socialist heterosexual." - TeaBagliCons (R)

"At least we, um, sort of think so. Maybe."

- TeaBagliCons (R)



"Shoot, if you must, this old gray head,
But spare your country's flag," she said.

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2. Their first winter, the Pilgrims were saved from starvation by the collectivist native Americans,

who had enough extra food that they were able to feed the colonists.