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Tea Party Happily Uses Poster Mocking Them In Popular Video Game

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"A Florida Tea Party group found itself on the defensive Monday after posting a photo from a video game that was actually making fun of its political leanings.

"We don't take credit for the image," National Liberty Federation (NLF) president Everett Wilkinson told The Raw Story in a phone interview. "We have no association with the game. I'd never heard of the game. I'm as clueless, probably, as most people."

MSNBC reported that the picture, taken from the video game Bioshock Infinite, went up on the group's Facebook page on Saturday, and depicts George Washington holding the Liberty Bell and the Ten Commandments while caricatures of "immigrants" hover at his sides, with the words, "It is our holy duty to guard against the foreign hordes" at the bottom."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Arturo Garcia / Raw Story:
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