By John Seiler

Last week I noted that Sam Donaldson attacked the Tea Partiers for their slogan, “We ought to take back our country.” Actually, I noted, they just didn’t want to keep paying massive taxes to subsidize people like Sam, who has taken massive taxpayer subsidies for his horse farm.

But I’ve done a little more research.

In his 2003 presidential run for the Democratic nomination to oppose Republican President Bush, former Democratic Vermont Gov. Howard Dean wrote a book, “Winning Back America.”

In 2004, Dean wrote with Judith Warner, “You Have the Power: How to Take Back Our Country and Restore Democracy in America.”

In 2012, Daniel Kreiss, Assistant Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, wrote, “Taking Our Country Back: The Crafting of Networked Politics from Howard Dean to Barack Obama (Oxford Studies in Digital Politics).” As you may recall, in 2004 Dean initiated some digital campaign strategies that later were used by other candidates, and mastered by President Obama in 2012.

In 1998, environmentalist Jane Kay Holtz wrote, “Asphalt Nation: How the Automobile Took Over America and How We Can Take It Back.” (The title was ungrammatical. “It” could have referred to taking back the automobile, when she meant taking back America.)

And way back in 1982, Mark J. Green, an associate of Ralph Nader, wrote, “Winning Back America.”

It’s not only Donaldson’s demonized Tea Partiers who want to “take back our country,” it’s almost any political group. It probably goes back to ancient Greece where those out of power said, “Everything is rotten, we need to take back Athens.”

Donaldson, now 78, has been watching politics 21 years longer than I have, so surely he knows that.

Donaldson long posed as an “objective” journalist who was “without bias.” But all along he really was just a left-wing ideologue gulling his viewers.

What all of us need to do is take back our TVs by flipping the channel away from Donaldson.

By John Seiler

Back in 1995, USA Today reported that broadcaster Sam Donaldson received $84,742 in federal subsidies from taxpayers for a horse farm in New Mexico. So it’s understandable why he defends the current regime of ripping off middle-class taxpayers to give the money to wealthy celebrities such as himself.

Last weekend, he attacked the Tea Party for “driving the Republican Party out of contention as a national party.” He said you can’t win nationally if you don’t know something about “how the country has changed.”

Actually, the Tea Party was behind the Republican Party’s takeover of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010. Then it was sold out by the GOP leadership, which failed to cut the budget deficit and make the Bush tax cuts permanent. But the Tea Party’s influence kept the Republicans in charge in 2012, and likely will boost their numbers in the House in 2014.

But never mind: Sam has his eye on those tax subsidies that the Tea Party wants to cut.

“The Tea Party seems to think that the country can go back 25 or 30 years” — that is, before Sam ripped off taxpayers with his subsidies.

Sam said the slogan he hated the most was, “We ought to take back our country.” That’s understandable. Because if the Tea Party took back the country, he would have to give back the subsidies he ripped off from taxpayers.

“Guys, it’s not your country any more,” Sam huffed. True, Sam and his other left-subsidy beneficiaries grabbed our taxes and kept them for themselves.

He’s right that the Tea Party, despite some victories for the Republicans, mostly has failed. The subsides to Sam and other limousine liberals have helped bankrupt the federal government. And we’re all going to have to live with the consequences of that.

Well, almost all of us. Sam and his fellow champagne socialists will be living it up on our money.

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