Posted on 01/24/2010 10:00:44 AM PST by jessduntno
Lets Tell AP Board: No Teabag!
Posted by minncon (Profile)
Saturday, January 23rd at 7:23PM EST
AP published a piece by Charles Babington recently in which it used the word teabaggers to describe supporters of the Tea Party movement. As many elsewhere on the web (h/t to Hotair.com) have noted, by using it AP is mainstreaming the obnoxious term. Lets say enough.
Im writing every board member of AP and objecting, and I hope you will join me. Below are some AP board members and contact information ... If you come up with better info, please post...
NOTE: Most of the board members also hold high positions at member news outlets, so our objections may just do double duty.
http://www.redstate.com/minncon/2010/01/23/lets-tell-ap-board-no-teabag/
(Excerpt) Read more at redstate.com ...
The left is always trying to create side issues to defocus conservatives. Recognize those efforts for what they are.
Gay marriage is a perfect example. Threatening to tax stock trades is another.
Look up the history of Yankee Doodle.
Yeah...they were calling us ragtag army...they weren’t calling us “Horse Buggers.”
Not a name we would have embraced, I don’t think.
“Or refer to them as teabagees “
Ohhhh...that’s good...
Point is, by accepting the term, AP is accepting the knowing usage of a factual error. That OUGHT to mean something to them.
To “sandbag” means to hit with telling blows (think of how heavy a bag of sand is). Why not “teabag” in the same sense?
“Point is, by accepting the term, AP is accepting the knowing usage of a factual error. That OUGHT to mean something to them.”
I think their correction of this latest story tells us that...pressure works and we don’t need to get in the gutter to bring it...
Suggest to them to do a Google image search using the term...
“To sandbag means to hit with telling blows (think of how heavy a bag of sand is). Why not teabag in the same sense?”
To “Pack Fudge” means to...
Charming, isn’t it? I know it’s becoming another term of endearment that they can use with impunity...while we say “big deal”...well, it is a big deal...we don’t have to fight the scum on the left over it, just point out that it has no place in civil public discourse.
How about this:
Whenever a MSM fool uses this term, our guys need to reply with, “That is a pornographic term you just used. You now have a choice - apologize and promise to not use it again, or I will explain to your viewers - in graphic detail - exactly what it is you are saying about Americans who want their country back.
Which will it be?
“Which will it be?”
Ha! Sounds a little like one of my favorite lines from “True Grit”.
Which will it be? Ha! Sounds a little like one of my favorite lines from True Grit.
Think we can bring them in front of Judge Parker?
The advantage of standing tall and proud, instead of sounding like a whimpering schoolboy "Johnny is calling me names".
Goodness Gracious, Great Packs of Fudge!
And, tell them that they couldn’t teabag if they wanted to because they have no cojones.
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