Executive Producer Erik Jendresen of National Geographic Channel's upcoming television movie “Killing Lincoln,” said John Wilkes Booth “could be the poster child for the Tea Party.”...

At the press event on Friday, The Wrap asked Jendresen if he thought O’Reilly would agree with his views on the Tea Party and John Wilkes Booth. Jendresen said, “I can’t speak for Mr. O’Reilly. I think that if you look at the politics of the time, and a lot of the epithets that were being hurled at Lincoln, there was a feeling in the nation that’s not dissimilar from what we’ve experienced in the past four years in response to Barack Obama – the sense of an imperial presidency or soundbytes about somebody who’s going to proclaim himself king and take over.

"It's stunning to me to read some of the newspaper articles and some of the interviews of the time, some of the contents of the letters and memoirs from the time and some of the things that were thought about Lincoln in the South are so similar to … the dialogue today," said Jendresen.

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He's right, you know. There has been a change in the political atmosphere since the calm and and rational Bush years.

Criticize this putz and you are either a racist or a potential assassin.

When Obama ran in his first term he tapped into that Lincoln image, but he didn't play up on it a lot during his first term. Now that he has begun his second term and Spielberg made the movie about Lincoln, it's like the Left only has Lincoln on their brains. They are saying to the president that they want him to push against the Constitution as Lincoln did.

The only problem with that scenario is that Lincoln had ethics and faith. Obama has neither. There will be nothing to hold him back.

It's the opposite.

The equivalent of the Tea Party are the folks who fought to end slavery...........the 'radicals.'

Everything a leftist thinks is the polar opposite of reality.