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07-05-2017, 05:31 PM
NPR tweeted the Declaration of Independence and some Trump supporters saw it as an attack ... on them
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We hold these truths to be self evident: don't mess with NPR.*
It's **t like the company is above criticism. But there should be **thing less controversial than for the station to do what they did on Tuesday, and tweet out the Declaration of Independence for the Fourth of July.
Alas, some Trump supporters who were seemingly unfamiliar with the historic declaration, took offense on Twitter.
And thus, an internet controversy was born.
SEE ALSO: Chris Christie's day in the sun got him burned by the internet (http://mashable.com/2017/07/03/chris-christie-beach-internet/)
Blind partisanship and a deep-seated distrust of NPR appears to have made some supporters lash out at the station for tweeting out a document that was last controversial in, um, 1776.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/05/npr-trump-supporters-declaration-independence/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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We hold these truths to be self evident: don't mess with NPR.*
It's **t like the company is above criticism. But there should be **thing less controversial than for the station to do what they did on Tuesday, and tweet out the Declaration of Independence for the Fourth of July.
Alas, some Trump supporters who were seemingly unfamiliar with the historic declaration, took offense on Twitter.
And thus, an internet controversy was born.
SEE ALSO: Chris Christie's day in the sun got him burned by the internet (http://mashable.com/2017/07/03/chris-christie-beach-internet/)
Blind partisanship and a deep-seated distrust of NPR appears to have made some supporters lash out at the station for tweeting out a document that was last controversial in, um, 1776.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/07/05/npr-trump-supporters-declaration-independence/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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