A statue of Helen Keller, who was known to have "palled around with socialists," is being unveiled at the US Capitol today. The man who spearheaded the efforts to install this socialist icon in the US Capitol is none other than known radical activist...
Alabama Governor Bob Riley (Republican).
Glenn Beck? You want to say something about what a crazy socialist Bob Riley is? Hmm? Maybe make some kind of crazy misspelled acrostic about it? Write something up on your little blackboard of doom?
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IOKIYAR, I guess.
Or maybe it's the fact that Americans simply aren't taught that many of our favorite historical people were socialists or communists. Besides Helen Keller, here are a few more:
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
-Albert Einstein
-W.E.B. DuBois
UPDATE: thanks to slippytoad - I forgot a very important one:
-Francis Bellamy, author of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Link:
http://www.cnn.com/...
http://en.wikipedia.org/...