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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts)
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 06:30 AM Jul 2017

NPR tweets Declaration of Independence trump supporters take offense [View all]

NPR has a tradition of reading the Declaration of Independence on air for the last 29 years, but the whiny persecuted rightwingers were having none it.

"you’d think that people who want to “make America great again” might recognize the words of the Declaration of Independence. I guess not."



"The line about the right of the people to abolish the current government and form a new one struck a chord with some Trump enthusiasts."



"And some people were particularly offended by the line about King George IV being an “unworthy” leader of a civilized nation, believing that perhaps NPR was talking about a different tyrant:"

http://gizmodo.com/trump-supporters-cry-bias-after-npr-tweets-the-declarat-1796633566

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