Media Hacks Sandbag the Teabaggers

PAjamas Media ^ | April 18 | Stephen Green

[AJKauf]

OK, I get it. It’s a very funny joke. “Tea party” and “teabagging” both have the word “tea” in them — a witticism worthy of Oscar Wilde. Or at least worthy of our age’s eminent wit, CNN’s own Anderson Cooper. Maybe I’m the wrong guy to complain about this. After all, I made what little reputation I have by drinking while reading the news — and being more than a little dirty-minded about it all.

That said, the sexual innuendo isn’t — for once — what interests me. What is interesting is watching the teabagging meme take hold all across the left and even the mainstream media — and why it has.

Ridicule has long been a powerful propaganda tool. Ayn Rand noted just that in The Fountainhead, when villain Ellsworth Toohey explains that he would “Kill by laughter. … One doesn’t reverence with a giggle.” Professional rabble-rouser — er, “community organizer” — Saul Alinsky’s rule five was: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” And that’s exactly what we’re seeing on display all across the left side of the blogosphere and the MSM....

[Company Man]

The term migrated from the gay world into the mainstream through a video gaming practice of humiliating your opponent in a certain way. A few of us freepers warned this would happen, but to no avail.

[timestax]

[timestax]

[Quix]

Have said such things repeatedly hereon for years . . .

BEGINNING WITH:

CHOICE &
INFANTICIDE

Thanks.