Leading Tea Party Group Part Of Fake Founding Father Quotes Epidemic

[JaneyVee]

As John Adams once said, don’t believe everything you read on the internet...

The conservative Tea Party Express bills itself as wanting to return America to the principles held in the founding documents. A review of the branded and heavily-shared quotes from our nation's founders the group posts on Facebook reveals many are of dubious origins, however.

Tea Party Express pledges to restore "this great Republic to the limits articulated by our founders in the Constitution of the United States of America," reads another post.

Here are some of the misquotes:

There’s this Franklin quote, which is not only partially butchered and inaccurate in meaning, but actually about money.



The rest: http://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/pandemic-of-sharing-fake-founding-fathers-quotes-in-leading?s=mobile#1zwcuv5

[DetlefK]

1. The Tea Party Express' response: "I know you are, but what am I?"

scroll down in article.

[Cryptoad]

2. This is News.....

that these groups lie and makeup chit as they type??????? Where have yall been?

[caraher]

3. Of course, this cuts both ways

I've seen the Franklin quote invoked by the left often enough during the Bush years. The bullshit level on the left is much lower than on the right, but it's not zero, either.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Heck ...

search, just about any of the hundreds of NSA/Snowden threads here at DU, and you will find that mis-quote in about half and the mis-sentiment in all of them.