Tea Partiers Premiering Straight-To-DVD TV Show Set In Colonial America

[RamboLiberal]

James Patrick Riley and Jonathan Wilson, apparently undeterred by the limited success of the last entertainment venture aimed at Tea Partiers, have teamed up to make Courage, New Hampshire, a one-hour drama about Colonial America that premieres Sunday in California.

The show takes place in New Hampshire in 1770, and in the first episode, called "The Travail of Sarah Pine," a woman accuses a British soldier of fathering a child out of wedlock. According to the show's site:

They were a sturdy lot of men and women who dreamed of a city built on a hill. Their struggle to create that city and to sustain a republic dedicated to the rare notion of individual freedom and "unalienable rights" has outlived them, but there's a side of their story we don't often study: what made them strong enough to fight?"I'd like to concentrate on some of the regular folk who made the Revolution possible," Riley said, and "mix the narrative tension of The Sopranos and the redemptive, heroic American exceptionalism of Frank Capra."

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"I was surprised to learn how many Tea Partiers there are in Hollywood," Riley told THR. "Most won't talk about it, though."

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/tea_partiers_premiering_straight-to-dvd_tv_show_se.php?ref=fpb

[Ohio Joe]

1. teabaggers continue to re-write history - nt

[provis99]

2. the Colonists would've puked at the Teabaggers.

[Anakin Skywalker]

3. Colonial America, where people teabag each other all day long? Are these DVDs rated R?

[Nevernose]

4. Too bad they don't focus on Capra's communism

They might learn something.

[brooklynite]

5. Ain't the Free Market amazing?

Apparently they can't get a TV network (even FOX) to pick up their "shoestring budget" program.

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. And for a minute I thought it was about

the actual honest to goodness, prison raids in the 1740s...

Now I would have bothered with that one. (Actual event kiddies... one of the many that radicalized the population on it's way to Independence)

[DrinkBeerNotTea]

7. dorks

[MannyGoldstein]

8. I can't wait to see this

I've studied that period of history; I'm guessing they have not, should be a hoot.