I’ve watched the whole tea party evolve, from a rant by a financial reporter on cable, to tax day protests, to the political and cultural force that it is today, in two short years.
Never once during that time, did I hear the term “teabagger” until several nobodies and Gloria Vanderbilt’s daughter started giggling about teabagging and using the term on MSNBC. There was immediate recognition as to just why these people were using the term, they’re all sexual deviants of one sort or another.
To now try and claim that it’s a self-referential term coined by tea partiers themselves, is really peculiar.
These people do realize they’re being observed and they no longer can just airbrush history out for a do-over, don’t they? Apparently not.
I thought it traced back to Anderson Cooper using it on his CNN show with a smirk. Either way, I don’t recall hearing it before the lib media used it either. The fact that they have to concoct the excuse that it came from the tea partiers themselves shows that they know it’s poor behavior that exposes their bias and makes them look like jerks.
As someone who is old enough to remember the original Boston Tea Party, take it from me. Tea Bags had not been invented in the late 1700's. All tea was made with loose tea. Tea bags have no relationship to the Tea Party.