"“One man’s laziness is another man’s industry, based on the agricultural methods they’ve learned as young people,” he said."
Thanksgiving and the Tea Party - NYTimes.com:
William Hogeland, the author of “Inventing American History,” agreed. “Across the political spectrum, there’s a tendency to grab a hold of some historical incident and yoke it to a current agenda,” he said. “It doesn’t always mean there’s no connection, but often things are presented as historical first, rather than as part of the agenda first.”
And indeed, many can play this game.
Professor Kupperman, for instance, said the Jamestown story reminded her mostly of the Iraq war.
“It was kind of like the idea that the Iraqis would greet us with flowers,” she said.
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