The Teabagger Dilemma?

dixon76710 said:
No, some embraced the word tea bag to refer to sending a tea bag to your representatives in Congress. MSNBC coined the term "teabagger" to refer to hanging your balls in someones face and as a name for members of the tea party.

Let them mock the tea party as they put representatives into Congress, while the corresponding OWS plan to protest the democratic convention.
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They didn't 'coin' the term it pre-existed the adoption of the term by the right...
 
Haiku said:
They didn't 'coin' the term it pre-existed the adoption of the term by the right...
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Made up BS. Show me even ONE instance of the term "teabagger" used to refer to members of the tea party, befor MSNBC used it. Are you people dishonest or pathetically uninformed?
 
dixon76710 said:
Made up BS. Show me even ONE instance of the term "teabagger" used to refer to members of the tea party, befor MSNBC used it. Are you people dishonest or pathetically uninformed?
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Maddow quoted theit use of the term. I've already shown you where it was used before that.
 
Have the teabaggers realized yet that their 'movement' was started and funded by the Koch brothers as a propaganda tool? And that the participants have been duped into thinking they are advancing democracy but instead are pawns for the corporatization of the U.S.?

Just asking.
 
dixon76710 said:
Made up BS. Show me even ONE instance of the term "teabagger" used to refer to members of the tea party, befor MSNBC used it. Are you people dishonest or pathetically uninformed?
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Howey said:
Maddow quoted theit use of the term. I've already shown you where it was used before that.
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So full of shit! SHOW ME EVEN ONE INSTANCE of the term "teabagger" used to refer to members of the tea party, before MSNBC used it. Here is where, if you werent so full of shit, you would simply copy and paste a sentence that includes this use of the term teabagger. You cant, so you are left to lie about its existance.
 
Crashk said:
Have the teabaggers realized yet that their 'movement' was started and funded by the Koch brothers as a propaganda tool? And that the participants have been duped into thinking they are advancing democracy but instead are pawns for the corporatization of the U.S.?
Just asking.
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Have you figured out yet that youve been fed a line of BS

On January 24, 2009, Trevor Leach, chairman of the Young Americans for Liberty in New York State organized a "Tea Party" to protest obesity taxes proposed by New York Governor David Paterson and call for fiscal responsibility on the part of the government. ...
New York Times journalist Kate Zernike reported that leaders within the Tea Party credit Seattle blogger and conservative activist Keli Carender with organizing the first Tea Party in February 2009,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement#History
 
Crashk said:
Have the teabaggers realized yet that their 'movement' was started and funded by the Koch brothers as a propaganda tool? And that the participants have been duped into thinking they are advancing democracy but instead are pawns for the corporatization of the U.S.?

Just asking.
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how do you like being teabagged?
 
dixon76710 said:
No, some embraced the word tea bag to refer to sending a tea bag to your representatives in Congress. MSNBC coined the term "teabagger" to refer to hanging your balls in someones face and as a name for members of the tea party.

Let them mock the tea party as they put representatives into Congress, while the corresponding OWS plan to protest the democratic convention.
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exactly....tea bag is representative of the boston tea party. teabagger isn't. the liberals invented that because those that use the term love getting teabagged.
 
Howey said:
You just can't get anything right, can you?

http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-bagger



This is priceless!




lol...

Of course, with representatives like you and others on here, it's been well known that teabaggers aren't the smartest around, huh?
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It is no surprise that Howie, arguably one of the most vile of far left liberal posters JPP has in his short time here on the site, would use an article from a website produced from a convicted in Britain pedophile.

However, regardless of the sources, or laughable sources as it were, there is some clarification of the term that should be noted. jay Nordlinger of National Review brings in the true origin of the term in his 2009 article.

First, a little history. After Barack Obama was sworn in as president, with his big majorities in Congress, the Democrats launched quite a bit of federal spending: particularly with the “stimulus” package. Some Americans were determined to counter this. And, before you knew it, we had the “tea party” movement. What protesters were doing, of course, was invoking the spirit of the American Revolutionaries, and their Boston Tea Party. According to the website of the Tea Party Patriots, the movement is committed to three “core values”: fiscal responsibility, constitutionally limited government, and free markets.

The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it.

I have no doubt you are sexually hip, but just in case you’re not, please know that “teabag” has a particular meaning in certain circles. In order to have a discussion of our general topic, we must be aware of that meaning, and I call on the Source of All Knowledge, Wikipedia: “‘Teabagging’ is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion as in irrumatio. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.” I could quote you more, but you have had enough.

The liberal media, to use a convenient tag, went after the protesters with glee. Take Anderson Cooper, the acclaimed anchorman for CNN. He was interviewing David Gergen, the political pundit. And Gergen was saying that, after two very bad elections, conservatives and Republicans were “searching for their voice.” Cooper responded, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.” He said this with a smirk.

MSNBC had an outright field day. Rachel Maddow and a guest of hers, Ana Marie Cox, made teabag jokes to each other for minutes on end: having great, chortling fun at the conservatives’ expense. And here is the performance of another host, David Shuster:

“For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15, will be Tax Day, but . . . it’s going to be Teabagging Day for the right wing, and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.”

Shuster went on to say that Fox News personalities were “looking forward to an up-close-and-personal taste of teabagging.” Etc., etc., etc. All the while, MSNBC was picturing Republican figures, and the following words were on the screen: “TEABAG MOUTHPIECES.”

Ma and Pa America may not have been in on the joke, but plenty of other people were. On HBO, the lefty comedian Bill Maher commented, “When the year started, ‘teabagging’ was a phrase that referred to dangling one’s testicles in someone else’s face.” And the tea-party protesters “managed to turn it into something gross and ridiculous.” Tuh-dum.

After Cooper and the others smirked about “teabagging,” the word went utterly mainstream — although you could say that, if Cooper used it, it started mainstream: because how much more mainstream can you get than a CNN anchor? On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, E. J. Dionne, the liberal columnist, spoke of “a right-wing candidate supported by the teabaggers.” The host himself, Stephanopoulos, followed suit. On PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, senior correspondent Gwen Ifill used “teabaggers” as well. At the New York Times, Paul Krugman used it in a column. Elsewhere, Roger Ebert used it in a movie review. And so on.

Some politicians — Democrats — have talked about “teabagging” and “teabaggers” too. And that includes the biggest Democratic politicians of them all. Recently, both President Obama and former president Bill Clinton spoke to congressional Democrats behind closed doors. They were giving pep talks on health-care legislation. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse reported Clinton as saying, “The reason the teabaggers are so inflamed is because we are winning.” Rep. Earl Blumenauer reported Obama as saying, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?”

It will be interesting to see whether the president — or Bill Clinton, for that matter — ever uses “teabag” and the like in public. And if not, why not?

Some on the right are using “teabagger,” but mainly the word is a putdown from the left. Conservatives realize that nothing friendly is meant by it. You can tell by tone and context, for one thing. (Or is that two things?) Of course, some people use “teabagger” in innocence — unaware of any vulgar connotation. One such person is, or was, Gwen Ifill. Some of her NewsHour viewers wrote to complain. And Ifill later said, “Turns out I am the only person with access to email who never knew this was a term with a sexual meaning. I used it in an offhand manner as a shorthand referring to the ‘tea party’ movement. It was a slip I was unaware of, and I regret it.”

Now to the question of what to do. How should conservatives handle this matter? Should we challenge the language, let it slide, adopt it? Many conservatives — most, I would say — are of a mind to fight. According to this point of view, people who use “teabagger” and such should be called on it, especially if they smirk. “What do you mean by that?” one might ask. “What do you mean by ‘teabagger,’ and why do you smirk?” In other words, conservatives want to introduce a little shame. And the responses of liberals could be kind of interesting.

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE
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The term used by todays childish leftists is a slur, and should have no place in civil debate of anything...All I can say is how pathetic are today's leftists to have to smirkingly, chortishly, use such a term? I know that Howie probably fantasizes of such practices but that something maybe he and ekg should take up in private.
 
Howey said:
http://washingtonindependent.com/69660/correcting-jay-nordlinger
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Hey Howie, even your own article here by David Weigel says this:

Generally, however, I agree that it’s good to call people what they want to be called, and for that reason I refer to them as “Tea Party protesters” and “Tea Party activists.”
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So, Weigel want's to make hay out of Nordlinger missing the day that the sign appeared, but that doesn't dismiss the entire article...What a joke. Even a hack like him notes that it is inappropriate to call Tea party people, 'Teabaggers'....
 
Howey said:
http://washingtonindependent.com/69660/correcting-jay-nordlinger
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Nobody denies that the tea party coined the phrase “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” to refer to sending your representative in DC a tea bag in the mail to signify your protest. It was MSNBC who coined the term "teabaggers" to refer to tea party members, complete with movie clip of a 50 yr old man in his tidy whities, dancing on the bar in a tavern, pressing his testicles into a patrons face.
 
dixon76710 said:
Nobody denies that the tea party coined the phrase “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” to refer to sending your representative in DC a tea bag in the mail to signify your protest. It was MSNBC who coined the term "teabaggers" to refer to tea party members, complete with movie clip of a 50 yr old man in his tidy whities, dancing on the bar in a tavern, pressing his testicles into a patrons face.
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Dude...the term "teabagger" was around loooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggggg before that.
 
dixon76710 said:
Nobody denies that the tea party coined the phrase “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” to refer to sending your representative in DC a tea bag in the mail to signify your protest. It was MSNBC who coined the term "teabaggers" to refer to tea party members, complete with movie clip of a 50 yr old man in his tidy whities, dancing on the bar in a tavern, pressing his testicles into a patrons face.
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There were actually some on the left at the time who thought the teabaggers came up with the term themselves to garner sympathy when the liberals pointed out it's meaning.

I didn't believe it. They're not smart enough to cook something like that up.
 
if they are teabaggers howey....doesn't that make you the teabaggee?

and once again, dopey fails to prove they came up with the word "teabagger".....nothing but lies and distortions.
 
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