Dan Gearino says the Sparta Teapot Museum is like a speeder.
In a post on his Words Assembled Well blog, the Raleigh writer says that the museum may have been unfairly picked out by "pork-barrel watchdogs in the media."
Once that happened, the museum became a combination of punching bag and punchline. Every story or broadcast either used the museum as an example of government waste, or made a joke about teapots. Usually both.
Still, he said that he doesn't think Sparta got "a raw deal." Yes, the state and federal grants are a "pittance," compared to other pork or the federal defense budget, he notes.
But, like a singled-out speeder, Sparta is "just the one that got caught."
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