Compiling MSM Use of "Tea Bagging" Homophobic/Mysoginst Slur

[Doctor Raoul]

Rachel Maddow, Keith Olbermann and David Schuster of MSNBC, Howard Fineman of Newsweek, Anna Marie Cox of Time along with people from Newsday, Huffington Post and the Examiner newspapers have used a slur intended to disparage gay men and degrade women to belittle the conservative rallies.

And these are the people who went ballistic when Ann Coulter used "faggot" in a joke.

What is needed here is the offending quote from the people listed above and the URL.

If you have a quote from the MSM that is not listed above, please provide that name, their news outlet, the quote and the URL.

I will put together a final list for your use, along with faxing it to about 150 MSM newsrooms to remind them that they are homobobic and mysoginst haters.

Thank you for your assistance, please let's keep this focused on data collection.

[null and void]

GLAAD you are doing this...

[YCTHouston]

The comedians are out tonight!

[50mm]

They are not homophobic.

[null and void]

Out?

[FrdmLvr]

Thank you for doing this. I couldn’t believe what they were getting away with, especially David Schuster. I’ll be happy to contact these networks with my complaint.

[Bertha Fanation]

How queer.

[Izzy Dunne]

You might spell it “misogynist”, just for clarity.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

Doc, I am glad to know that a list is being compiled. Might I suggest a secondary list.

I am not a prude. I read. A lot. And I didn’t “know” what it meant. I had to google it. How about a compilation of (honest), average Americans, who made it to adulthood (me into my forties) and didn’t manage to learn of “this.”

This is some Change, huh Doc?

[EBH]

Rachel Maddow

http://airamerica.com/maddow/blog/2009/apr/16/rachel-maddow-discuss-teabag-protests-ana-marie-cox-video

[VirginiaMom]

I’m with you PennMom. I didn’t know what that meant until yesterday. I wish I could “unknow” it now.

VirginiaMom

[andy58-in-nh]

[PennsylvaniaMom]

VaMom, I am making four phone calls tomorrow. Each of my Seantors; my Congressman; and the FCC. I am going to request information on how to file a formal complaint against CNN and MSNBC for “bringing” this trash into the news.

[skeeter]

To top it off these... journalists are now attributing the term to the protesters themselves, implying the protesters are calling themselves teabaggers, so they can distance themselves from their own filthy minds & at the same time snicker at protestors’ ignorance of what they evidently consider a cool slang term.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Holy crap.

Funny...I can't for the life of me remember a single instance of Rachel Maddow or any other talking head on CNN having any problem or comment at all with the term "Bushitler" or any of the other myriad images on placards equating GWB with Hitler. I must have been sleeping through the broadcasts where they objected.

I also noticed that she used the term 'Tea Party' only once. Though 'Teabagging' usage was over the top.

[Carley]

Yup, and zero didn’t bow either.

[YCTHouston]

Don’t try to back door some other meaning into my comment.

[Albion Wilde]

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[ninergold3]

I wish I could “unknow it too”. ick

[GOPJ]

Conservatives need to understand the people in the MSM hate us. And we need to quit supporting them - just STOP watching CNN - forever. Same with the rest of ‘em.