Are you talkin' about me???
Posted on 04/16/2009 6:13:22 PM PDT by 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.
The whole thing arose out of the fact the earliest videogames allowed gamers to cause their atavars to squat.
I don't think we want the homosexals to take control of this term!
On behalf of the vast majority of Tea Party attendees, I’ll admit that we had absolutely no idea of your obscene definition of “Teabagging” until your giggle-fest disguised as in-depth news reporting.
Coming from the fruitcakes at CNN and NBC, the irony overwhelms us.
Thank you!!!
Are you talkin' about me???
Doc, just go to youtube and type in teabaggers. Olbermann is the first video to come up, followed by Maddow
faggot??? i prefer the term Filthy Disease Ridden Queers myself
Me too...
I first heard it in high school wrestling class,
before there were video games.
Slang terms pick up many meanings over time.
I think it wouldn’t be so bad for tea party-ers
to usurp the term. I’d love to here Mz. Maddow
someday say, “President 0Bama got tea-bagged
again today by those government hating right-
wingers when....
The double entendre would be great.
No doubt she became very upset when we concluded that NO ONE will ever teabag Maddow ~ not going to give her the chance to get that close.
Yep, me too.
most of this was actually on the daily show tonight so i can just find their clip
I don’t think Cable counts.
David Shuster (MSNBC) -
“It’s going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals.”
I’d like to have a bumper stick that read...
“I teabagged Obama on April 15th.”
Right above my bull testicle hitch cover.
ANA MARIE COX, AIR AMERICA CORRESPONDENT:
“Yes. I was experimenting with the proper use of a tea bag.”
“I am a veteran of many a protest, I confess, from my radical days in college. And this was unlike most of the ones that I went to in college. There are lots of people in suits and ties. There were a surprising number of children being forced to hold propaganda that had to do with holding their future for ransom, or don‘t teabag me, teabag—you know, I don‘t want to be teabagged, teabag someone else.”
“I don‘t know if there are laws about using children in that way in a district, but you know, the whole thing got broken up by police anyway.”
******
Rachel Maddow (MSNBC)-
“One of the controversies about the teabaggers is the fact that insider D.C. corporate-funded PR shops and lobbying groups have done a lot of the organizing and promotion for these events. That‘s controversial because it‘s astroturfing. It‘s disguising a formal top-down organized paid for things as if it‘s some spontaneous grassroots event. It‘s also controversial because some of the insider D.C. corporate-funded PR shops and lobbying groups, astroturfing these protests, these protests against profligate government spending against the bailouts, the folks organizing the anti-bailout protests are also lobbyists for the bailout companies.”
“What‘s different about this year‘s Tax Day protest, different this year from other years—is that this year, one of the two great political parties of the American two-party political system has decided to hitch its wagon to the Tax Day protest star—a heretofore sort of fringe tradition. It‘s an awkward coming together of a major political party and groups associated with those late-night “how to legally pay zero taxes without going to jail” infomercials—those ones that didn‘t work out at all for Wesley Snipes.”
” Did you get the sense today that anybody knew why it would be weird to use the word tea bag or the word teabagging as a verb? Do you think they get that? They understand the weird implication there?”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30249515/
Unless there is some internet listing of sponsors for various shows, I am going to (yuk) watch these shows to get a list of sponsors to complain to. I am tired of buying products from sponsors of this trash :(
SF Chronicle:
“The “tea baggers” were angry about government bailouts.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/04/15/MNS01736NQ.DTL
Yeah they can pretend it’s a misprint or misquote or whatever, but who are they trying to kid — if any newspaper staff “en masse” would know when to use “tea bagger” and when not to, it would be the SF Chronicle.
Don’t forget the exchange between Anderson Cooper and David Gergen. I’m too lazy to look up the link right now but I know there are at least three threads on it here on FR.
Rachel Maddow (MSNBC)-
“We are eagerly counting down to midnight to the start of Tax Day, which this year will be “teabag day.” The conservative movement organizing amorphously to oppose taxation maybe, spending maybe, President Obama‘s birth certificate, perhaps—it‘s not totally clear. But the adoption of their teabag as their symbol, now that is as plain as the one-two punch to the face.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30226660/
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