Posted on 04/16/2009 11:32:28 AM PDT by DesertRenegade
On Tuesday night, CNN host Anderson Cooper referenced a vulgar slang term used in the homosexual community to ridicule Republicans involved in the "TEA Party" rallies.
During his AC 360 program, Anderson Cooper made the vulgar remark after CNN senior political analyst David Gergen spoke of the Republican Party being "in disarray."
Gergen: "Republicans have got a way -- they still haven't found their voice, Anderson. They're still -- this happens to a minority party after it's lost a couple of bad elections, but they're searching for their voice."
Cooper: "It's hard to talk when you're tea-bagging."
Tim Graham with the Media Research Center says Cooper is one of several cable news personalities who have made vulgar sexual jokes about the word "tea-bagging" to mock efforts by conservatives to protest high levels of taxes and spending in the U.S.
"I don't remember when large numbers of people were going to protest the Iraq War in 2003 that these same personalities -- Anderson Cooper or Keith Olbermann or David Shuster -- got up and said, 'Let's now start making raunchy jokes about the protesters,'" he notes. "And furthermore, they've suggested basically that these are not authentic protests; that they might be 'Astroturf' instead of grassroots."
Graham says CNN president Jonathan Klein may claim he has a serious, sober news network, but "sophomoric" Anderson Cooper is proving him wrong.
According to Anderson Cooper if you paint all Muslims as being like Osama bin Laden, you're a hater.
If you paint all blacks as being like Willie Horton, you're a racist.
But if you paint all conservatives as being like Timothy McVeigh, you're an enlightened liberal.
Cooper is the narrow minded bigot.
I think you’re funny.
I have to admit I didn’t know what the hub bub was about ‘tea bag dippin’ until I Googled it. Leave it up to the slime on the left to pervert another phrase and twist it to mean some sexual act.
I take AstroTurf as a compliment. It is rugged, doesn’t fade in the sun, hurts the heck out of anyone that trips and falls and is an all around product abhored by the leftists. They of course wouldn’t be caught dead on Astroturf after all it is an oil product and raise your nose way in the air for this - it is kind of like pickup trucks and trailer parks.
Anderson Cooper is one to talk...
Is it hard for Anderson Cooper to talk when he’s choking on Obama’s acorns?
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