Captain America takes on America’s most fiercesomest awesomest enemy ever – The Tea Party

I wish this were a joke … and it may very well turn out to be … but columnist Warner Todd Huston wrote about this yesterday and I was just sitting there in stunned disbelief. And of course AP at H/A has a pretty good take on this too. Update (Steve) below the fold…)

Scroll to the bottom of this post for an update.

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.

Well that’s fine with me, how about you? Subersive, racist, domestic terrorists. Bad. Thank you Capatin America. But wait, there’s more.

Update (Steve): Click on the image to see a scan full size. If you can’t read it, click here and magnify the image in your browser.

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.

Uh Oh … white people who are anti big government and taxes. Stop them Captain America.

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.”

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.

Thank goodness Captain America is here to save the day. Those Grandmas can be pretty feisty. We can only hope Superman lends a hand. Read the whole thing please.

Update: OK – Jim just discussed this story on the big show. One of the signs displayed in the crowd referred to the frequently-used TEA Party jab we’re all now familiar with. TEA Party organizers were not happy and complained. FoxNews.com reports the reference on the sign will be removed.

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.”

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Jim Vicevich

Jim is a veteran broadcaster and conservative/libertarian blogger with more than 25 years experience in TV and radio. Jim's was the long-term host of The Jim Vicevich Show on WTIC 1080 in Hartford from 2004 through 2019. Prior to radio, Jim worked as a business and financial reporter for NBC30 - the NBC owned TV station in Hartford - and as business editor at WFSB-TV in Hartford for 14 years while earning six Emmy nominations and three Telly Awards.

7 Comments

  1. Anne-EH on February 10, 2010 at 6:30 am

    Amazing, just amazing, at a time when there are American-hating terrorists running around, including an Iran that threatens from time to time, the Obama White House is scared of what……………..Tea Party protesters?



  2. donh on February 10, 2010 at 9:07 am

    This is a classically racist cartoon . Captain America is the  paternal white liberator  with a "numinous negro" protagonist side kick. Please see google for  more on numinous negro as a  literary term.  This set of characters can be seen from Uncle Tom's cabin, Robinson Caruso and Friday, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, The Green Mile, and  any Morgan Freeman movie. This cartoon has the morally superior white hero leading the way to saving blacks  from his barbaric ignorant racist white kin. It shows how nothing changes with the left. They see black progress as the white man's burden  . Minorities  cannot overcome the difficulties of life on their own. They need  a white liberal savior  with all the big government programs, racially selective  pay backs and preferances or mean people will oppress you just because of your skin color.  This cartoon is a superb example of the Chris Matthews post civil war white racial advocacy way of looking at the world. It is also patently offensive.



    • Dimsdale on February 11, 2010 at 5:06 pm

      Can't add to that!  Kudos!

       



  3. Steven on February 12, 2010 at 8:17 am

    I never really liked Captain America anyway – now if Spiderman had that in his comic I'd be upset!!!

    Anyone for Tea?

     



  4. ShadowWing Tronix on February 12, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    As someone who follows comics as part of his blogging (and future career goals), left-wing domination of comics matches that of Hollywood. I see this a lot. There was a website dedicated to getting comic creators to push for Obama. There a "white paper" by Michael Medved (pdf file) from '03 about this as well, but it's not improved over the years.

    I'm not sure I agree with donh's take on the Falcon (the "black man" in this story) as he has shown himself a more than capable partner for the original Captain America and the current one (the former Bucky–the story of that is a real headache, so I won't go into it).

    For another take on this story from a bit closer to comics, I would send thee to the Four Color Media Monitor, which has been following the decay of the comic both politically and from a storytelling perspective. This is his article on Cap's latest lefty lean.



    • ShadowWing Tronix on February 12, 2010 at 4:01 pm

      Here's another story from 4-Color and from Newsbusters.

      UPDATE 2 (Feb. 10 at 11:00am EST): Fox News.com is reporting that any future references to "tea baggers" in the book's title will be removed:

      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.

      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.



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