The Breitbrats are continuing the legacy of St. Andrew by vettening (h/t the new and way-improved Wonkette) the Kenyan usurper with vintage photos of Obama doing natural American things.
Like dressing in colonial garb for a 1997 Fourth of July parade in his Hyde Park, Chicago, neighborhood.
Obama, then a freshman state senator, was indeed wearing an 18th-century costume in the photo at the link.
And someone was waving a Gadsden flag behind him.
Therefore, Obama is a hypocrite for opposing the 2009 rebranding of the GOP far-right as the "tea party."
Or something.
Breitbrat fantasy vettening, below.
Here's the lede of the Breitbrat post -- they are just so proud of themselves for discovering another photo-fact that Obama is a politician:
In 2009, President Barack Obama reportedly called members of the Tea Party "teabaggers."
It turns out that our fourth greatest president, first in so many things, may have been the first "teabagger" himself, as seen in the 1997 photograph above.
Yes, that really is Barack Obama wearing a regimental coat and carrying a tricorn hat in his hand. And that flag behind him really is a Gadsden flag, with its serpent and its "Don't Tread On Me" slogan.
You may want to let all of this sink in a bit, especially if you're a Tea Party-bashing progressive.
Teabagger in the first sentence, then the killer fact that Obama dressed up as a Revolutionary War patriot a dozen years before tea partier came to mean wingnut/Bircher Republican.
There's more:
In the dramatic battles over trumped up charges of Tea Party racism and extremism, Obama never mentioned his own "Tea Party" episode -- and neither has anyone in the media, even as Obama's allies and friends on the left ridiculed the Tea Party for seeking to make the same symbolic connections to the country's founding.
The media's failure is all the more glaring, given that the forgotten photograph has been in plain view for fifteen years.
As if donning a colonial costume in a Fourth of July parade in 1997 actually meant something related to far-right tea party types doing street theater in 2009.
But, but, Obama should have known that the far-right would take off their white hoods and put on tricorn hats:
With most politicians, wearing colonial dress for a public celebration like the 4th of July would be considered a bit colorful, but not extraordinary.
In Obama's case, it's more like proof of hypocrisy.
Since 2009, the ridicule of Tea Party signs and costumes has been so constant from Obama, the mainstream media, and the left that Glenn Beck encouraged people to stop dressing up so as not to give them an excuse.
Glenn Beck doesn't get it -- the tea party costumes were never the problem for the majority of voters outside the Confederacy.
The extremist anti-government/anti-Obama signs and speeches, and the meme implied by colonial costumes and Gadsden flags that the original Constitution, which legalized and protected slavery, was perfect, were the problem.
This Breitbrat attempt to keep St. Andrew's brand alive will only prove, yet again, that the Breitbart brand remains a pathetic joke, sustained only by undisclosed wingnut welfare and a few million ignoramuses.