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 Part of what makes a teabagger is a basic lack of skills to critically analyze the information that they watch, listen to, or read. That explains away a lot of the reason people listen to Rush Limbaugh, Faux News, and surf sites like BigGovernment.com.

Yea, BigGovernment.com, Andrew Breitbart's site where he defamed an US Agriculture Department employee for being a racist with a heavily edited video where in part, the woman, Shirley Sherrod, tell a story, in part, about how she got over racism. (And this African-American woman had lots of reasons to hate white people; her father was murdered because of his race by whites, and his killers were never convicted.)

But back to teabaggers comprehension levels. I thought I'd check out Breirbart's site today and see if this sort of stuff is par for the course. And it is. Today the first story discusses a NYTimes story that discusses Big Oil's subsudies and tax breaks. And what proof does Breitbart use to critizise the NYTimes story? Why that the think tank that did the study the article is based on has on its board the president of ACORN! Not one word to prove that anything in the article actually isn't true, just good old guilt by association.

The blog post does say that the oil companies are simply taking the same tax breaks that every other company takes, even though the NYTimes story makes it clear that some countries, like Saudi Arabia, have shifted their price for the oil from a royalty to a tax, therefor allowing the oil company to take the whole amount off their tax liability; pretty much a tax credit. If the companies paid a royalty, they would only take it off their income, as they would any other business expense. What's the difference you ask? Which would you rather have subtract your mortgage interest expense from you income and then pay taxes on what was left, or would you rather subtract the amount of you mortgage interest from the check you write to the IRS? But to teabaggers it's all the same-same.

Oh, and the post equates Community Action Partnerships with ACORN. It calls the CAPs 'ACORN-like'. Not much truth to that at all, but the 'bagger's seem to be buying it from the comments left for this post.