Is Robin Hood a Tea Partier?

[Galileo]

Is Robin Hood a Tea Partier?

A Tea Partier Turned Socialist?

OR

Robin Hood the Libertarian?

FIND OUT HERE:

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/Is-Robin-Hood-a-Tea-Partier-3611

[LnGrrrR]

Robin Hood is the biggest example of a liberal you could possibly find.

He steals from the rich, and gives to the poor.

Think about that for a second.

[LnGrrrR]

Oh and I haven't seen the new movie, but retrofitting some bs onto the Robin Hood story doesn't quite change the overall impression of Robin Hood, in my eyes.

Even if he IS a tea-partier, that movie is a "prequel" to the Robin Hood we know and love anyways... so I don't think that portraying him as a teapartier or libertarian is something that conservatives would like to do.

[Winehole23]

Dude steals from the man, which makes him... a hood, a criminal. Robin Hood. A fucking robber.

But his redeeming trait ( besides sticking it to the man ) is that he gives to the poor what the poor themselves are too cowardly and weak to take for themselves. To the (putatively) powerless, the man who takes his share from power by stealth or force is a hero. Even if he doesn't share it, even if he stole uninsured deposits (i.e., your money and mine.)

(Cf. Bonnie and Clyde)

[EmptyMan]

Robin Hood is the biggest example of a liberal you could possibly find.

He steals from the rich, and gives to the poor.

Think about that for a second.


Because the governing body was being too oppressive brah.



An Englishman in tights though....the left can draft this one. :p:

[Galileo]

Robin Hood is the biggest example of a liberal you could possibly find.

He steals from the rich, and gives to the poor.

Think about that for a second.

yah, but he was anti-tax and anti-government. He stole the tax money from the tax collecters and gave it back to the opressed poor.

[Galileo]

N.Y. Times’s A.O. Scott: Yup, Robin Hood’s a Tea-Partier

You may have heard that Robin Hood stole from the rich and gave to the poor, but that was just liberal media propaganda. This Robin is no socialist bandit practicing freelance wealth redistribution, but rather a manly libertarian rebel striking out against high taxes and a big government scheme to trample the ancient liberties of property owners and provincial nobles. Don’t tread on him!

So is “Robin Hood” one big medieval tea party? Kind of…

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bighollywood/2010/05/14/n-y-timess-a-o-scott-yup-robin-hoods-a-tea-partier/

[Ignignokt]

So LnnggrrRRRR thinks of the Disney version when everyone else here is thinking of the historical fable version.