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Tea Party is today’s Moral Majority; Jerry Miskulin; Beaver County Times; September 30, 2010.
I encourage you to review Mr. Miskulin’s body of work in the archives. Mr. Miskulin has written at least 61 letters since 2004 (I didn’t critique all of them.). Most (all?) are illogical and full of falsehoods (not just wrong).
Mr. Miskulin expressed displeasure with the tea parties (here and here), proclaimed
Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.
“Everybody thinks the Tea Party movement is some type of spontaneous affair.”
[RWC] The “Tea Party movement” apparently scares Mr. Miskulin. This is at least the third letter within the last year from Mr. Miskulin on this topic.
“I have to laugh at that notion because a similar movement was unleashed during the Ronald Reagan years - the Moral Majority.”
[RWC] Surprise, another “inaccuracy” from Mr. Miskulin. Not that it matters, but “Moral Majority” predated “the Ronald Reagan years.”
“The type of energy or buzz these subgroupings within the Republican Party bring is welcome, and any animosity between the establishment and the tea baggers is merely feigned. The late Jerry Falwell and Sarah Palin are purely opportunists riding a wave for their personal aggrandizement.”
[RWC] More name-calling and attempted character assassination by Mr. Miskulin.
“The tea baggers are a planned movement purely put together to provide an impetus for Republican candidates during the fall elections. Ask Palin how she would solve the myriad of problems our nation faces and she has no answers. Ask her what she’s against and she can rail onwards for about an hour.”
[RWC] “[P]lanned movement” by whom?
“The Moral Majority and the tea baggers come from the same genetic pool. Hence, they try to play us all for a fool.”
[RWC] Did you note Mr. Miskulin never told us the tea party policies he opposes? Instead, Mr. Miskulin simply engaged in name-calling and drive-by accusations.
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