Bingo Greg F.
The Tea Bag morons (and Faux News, Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, etc.) are reacting to a word with no understanding of it at all.
Perhaps they should mount a campaign comparing National Car Rental to the Nazis (National Socialist Party).
This would make every bit as much sense.

Perhaps they should also compare National Velvet to The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf.