Posted on 10/22/2009 4:16:34 PM PDT by mojito
Yesterday, I had a note on Anita Dunn, Fox News, CNN, and all that jazz. I said that a CNN anchorman, Anderson Cooper, had coined this “teabagger” epithet against anti-Obama protesters. “Teabagging” is a sexual practice defined in that earlier note of mine: and Cooper used it in a very specific context. Almost immediately, Democratic pundits and politicians picked up the epithet, “mainstreaming” it. (Of course, when something begins with a CNN anchorman, it pretty much starts life mainstream.)
Many, many readers wrote me yesterday saying that George Stephanopoulos, host of This Week, had used “teabagger” or “teabagging” that very morning. So had one of his guests, E. J. Dionne — but Dionne is a pundit, an opinionist, and Stephanopoulos is a host, right? Isn’t he supposed to be David Brinkley now? When last I was a real TV-watcher, he was saying that Gennifer Flowers had doctored the tapes and so on.
My readers complain that Republicans and conservatives let Stephanopoulos et al. get away with “teabagger.” For example, why doesn’t George Will say something? Shame them, rebuke them? I myself am afraid that “teabagger” is here to say. And perhaps conservatives will “own” the insult, as they say? Or maybe they have owned it already? Alternatively, is “teabagger” to be a conservative N-word, acceptable — even joyously employed — among conservatives, but nasty and impermissible from liberals?
The White House war on Fox News is quite interesting. My impression is that the Obama people are very, very unused to criticism or “pushback” — especially from the media. They are used to support. (Remember when Obama reminded a ballroom of journalists that they had all voted for him?) So Fox looks very exotic and alien to them. George W. Bush’s people would never have singled out, say, MSNBC.
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cooper knows all about teabagging.
I do not doubt that Anderson Cooper knows ALL about teabaging.
teabagging may be more commonplace as a homosexual “device” or technique or practice, but there’s nothing about it that’s exclusively homosexual.
On Bret Baiers show on FOX News while ago they said obama’s peeps tried to exclude Fox from a press conference of some sort and all the other networks said If Fox wasn’t included they didn’t want to be included either!
WOW!! The other networks stood up for Fox!! Wow!
You could be right, so use that expression in another sentence for me.....what is your sentence using it. Help me out here..
Consider the source when it comes to vulgarities.
One thing the left knows is perversion.
“”Carpet Muncher Finally Apologizes For Slandering Rush””
Great idea..I like it.
Ordinarily, in the evolution of language, bad meanings drive good meanings out of use. But sometimes the opposite happens...
Are you aware that he’s Gloria Vanderbilt’s son?
I've always wondered why it's always OK for the left to use whatever vulgarities they want but they're always the first to scream like scalded cats when those same type slurs are used on them.
Krauthammer used the term “teabag” on the Baier show tonight. I’m afraid we’re stuck with it.
Yes I am. It might, in some courts of law, be considered an extenuating circumstance.
I still have absolutely no idea what it is. Whatever it is, I’m sure I don’t give a crap. Half the guys in the office were laughing at the “joke.” I am not ashamed to say that I’m not in on it.
Agood comeback would be: Is that the best you have? or Your words can’t hurt us.
It is interesting that, when the part of "there's nothing wrong with gay, no matter what the Bible says" is looking for an insult, they imply that those who object to socialism are ... gay.
Why don’t the Log Cabin Republicans point out that the “Teabagger” label is homophobic?
“On June 23, 2009, the 85-year-old Vanderbilt's novel entitled “Obsession: An Erotic Tale,” was published by Ecco. The book has garnered media attention for its racy content, including, “scenes involving dildos, whips, silken cords and golden nipple clamps... spanking... Mint, cayenne pepper and a fresh garden carrot.. deployed [sic] in ways never envisioned by “The Joy of Cooking.” And there is also a unicorn, though, blessedly, it remains a bystander.” [12]”
Of course I do. Even Arkansawyers like me have been edgema-cated enough to know that.
I wish they did the same when the Naked Emperor said he had “a gift”. Here in northern NJ that’s slang for AIDS (you could also use the popular “Newark Flu” as well)...
Whenever someone employs the term I say, “You’re gay? That term is used in the gay community almost exclusively. Most normal people never use the term. Sorry if I’ve ever offended your “preference.” I really didn’t know you were gay?
ROFLMAO!!!
That was great.
LOL! I have to laugh - the reason most people being slandered by “teabagging” didn’t object is that we didn’t know what it meant. The ones using it were snickering at one another like dirty-minded pre-adolescents using a secret word that the grown-ups didn’t understand. Yes, many of them wore business suits and worked for the media. Doesn’t change a thing.
Please, can’t we bury the teabag and be friends?
I just smile when I hear that term. I figure if someone uses it they must’ve already did it at least once to know what it means! makes it all the more fun to think like that. :>
Carpet Muncher.
That was Adolf Hitler’s nickname wasn’t it. He actually chewed the carpet completely from the walls in fits of rage.
Works for me. That’s hilarious!
I prefer to use “child molester” on them.
I say we all stop talking about this perversion of a perfectly good political symbol and take back the “teaparty” and use it to convey the political ideas we intended.
Let the Anderson Cooper gutter-talk die by silence.
#teaparty on every tweet!
I don’t know who “uses the term”, normal or not, because I don’t go in for ‘sex talk’ on any level. All I was saying is that it’s a practice or technique of sexual activity that didn’t require two men to perform, though I can see how two homosexual men would reciprocate it with one another. Believe me, I’m sure even those that practice it regularly don’t go around using the word, even among themselves. THat’s for snarky MSM jerks like Anderson Cooper, and whoever else. But to answer the question, the practice is a common feature of porn, and features one party taking the testicles into one’s mouth, and, uh , sucking on them. And no, I’m not gay, and no, I have never done it, or had it done to me.
see my #32
Don’t take my response too personally. I just use the answer on any lib idiot who thinks they can get cute with me. This is how I let them know I understand what they are doing and turn the term back on them. If I respond loud enough, the men who are silly enough to use the term get real embarrassed. If they continue to use it, I continue to ask others if they knew of the person’s sexual preference. Needless to say, they usually don’t continue to use the term.
Your description was totally unnecessary for you to ping me on as it didn't answer my question to you.....duh
No, you didn’t ask for a sentence using the term in a non sexual way. And I didn’t say the term was “non-sexual” in nature-—it is ONLY used technically to describe a sexual act, and/or cutely/snarkily/sniggeringly by people like Anderson Cooper or Steponallofus so that they can have a good laugh over this private, “insider” joke. I said the term was not particularly descriptive of anything that might transpire between two homosexual men, but is also “heterosexual”. Since you already knew what it was, as per my description you shouldn’t appear embarrassed or offended. THe reason it was picked up by these media types was because the teabag was used as SUCH a symbol for that whole period (sadly fading now) of the Tea Parties. Now excuse me, I have to go to a political meeting where we’ll discuss activism having nothing to do with this crap.
The above is a direct cut and paste from my post.....
No, you didn't’t ask for a sentence using the term in a non sexual way. And I didn't’t say the term was “non-sexual” in nature. ( This was your response and inaccurate to what I posted.)
Your post #35 directly above.. You added to my post things that I didn't say. You brought up the term sexual...geez political activist, first learn to read a simple sentence before you go out being a political activist. You might misunderstand a simple sentence from someone and go off 1/2 cocked again. (that is not a sexual term, its a gun term) FYI
My deceased father-in-law called them “Womb Gophers”!
***You could be right, so use that expression in another sentence for me.....what is your sentence using it. Help me out here.. (This was my reply to your post #4. my reply was at post #6)..
The above is a direct cut and paste from my post.....
No, you didn’t’t ask for a sentence using the term in a non sexual way. And I didn’t’t say the term was “non-sexual” in nature. ( This was your response and inaccurate to what I posted.)
Your post #35 directly above.. You added to my post things that I didn’t say. You brought up the term sexual...geez political activist, first learn to read a simple sentence before you go out being a political activist. You might misunderstand a simple sentence from someone and go off 1/2 cocked again. (that is not a sexual term, its a gun term) FYI
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