Posted on 04/16/2009 9:47:09 AM PDT by lewisglad
For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.
For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word "teabagging" in a sentence.
Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth.
So when the anti-tax "tea party" protests were held Wednesday across the country, cable anchors and guests -- who for weeks had all but ignored the story -- covered the protests by cracking a litany of barely concealed sexual references.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed "teabagging" references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still "searching for their voice."
"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.
MSNBC's David Shuster weaved a tapestry of "Animal House" humor Monday as he filled in for Countdown host Keith Olbermann.
The protests, he explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."
He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.
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"It is anti-government, it is anti-CNN, it is not appropriate for family viewing..."
Rememeber when the media was up in arms over McCain’s Obama-Britney Spears ad? Fair and balanced.
CNN should be reported to the FCC.
The Left has no value system or moral compass, but we already knew that. The MSM sucks, period.
Who says you don’t get an education on the Free Republic? Thanks for the enlightenment - I thought I knew EVERYTHING!
If anyone thinks the orally charged remarks on mainstream cable were just a coincidence, MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s segments over the past week with guest, Air America’s Ana Marie Cox, would dissolve all doubt. Their on-air gymnastics, dancing around the double entendre of the week, looked like live-action Beavis and Butthead.
By one count, the two of them used the word “teabag” more than 50 times on one show. And on Monday, Cox even let the viewers in on their joke — referencing Urbandictionary.com, a site which offers a number of colorful definitions for the term “teabagging.”
“Well, there is a lot of love in teabagging,” Cox said. “It is curious, though, as you point out, they do not use the verb ‘teabag.’ It might be because they’re less enthusiastic about teabagging than some of the more corporate conservatives who seem to have taken to it quite easily.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MJVPIsZPpI
i purposly switched around the channels, fox, cnn, msnbc and was appalled by seeing the same thing...all other channels were taking this as a joke. actually laughing at the american people. they are disgracful and when the shooting begins their channels should be the first to go....
Is that before or after they teabag? .....sorry.....
All this after overlooking years of the available unintentional humor provided by the likes of the Code Pinkos.
“David Shuster: GOP Going Nuts For Teabagging, But They Need A Dick Armey” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELy61zkZHO0
Seriously, should we expect anything more?
Isn’t that taught in junior high as being “inclusive and diverse”?
Amazing, battle lines are so clearly drawn now. CNN is the Burea of Official Propaganda for 0bama. I’m sure Rheem or Rahm or whatever the hec his name is had a well laid out plan with the big wigs at CNN and the rest of the commie media for this.
Well, at the risk of dating myself, it wasn’t when I was in Jr High. So I thank Freeps for keeping me up (oops, pun) on things *groan*
What does that tell you about things if these dopes even know what teabagging means. Although, I’m having a lot of fun using the term now in their reference.
“It’s gonna be teabagging 24/7 right before the midterm elections in 2010” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsKt4O4Yw8&feature=related
I watched clips of CNN and was disgusted. They should be ashamed. They should grow up. They should respect the fact that thousands of American’s care enough about their country to get off their backsides and speak up.
I guess the real question is "Does Shuster pitch or catch?"
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