Rhamey doesn't have a problem with it.
Posted on 05/07/2010 3:20:40 AM PDT by Man50D
Rest of Title: in Interview With Newsweek Editor
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he did not know and could not imagine asking President Barack Obama whether he used the vulgar sexual term “tea baggers” to describe Americans active in the Tea Party movement.
“I can’t imagine I would ask the president that,” Gibbs said at Thursday’s White House press briefing.
According to Newsweek senior editor and columnist Jonathan Alter in his new book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, the president used the slur to describe the largely conservative activists of the Tea Party movement, which has been a major force in opposition to the president's agenda over the past year.
“Tea bagging” is slang for a form of sexual contact, and a “tea bagger” is someone who engages in that act.
Alter’s book is scheduled to be released later this month. It quotes Obama saying that Republican opposition to the $787-billion economic stimulus bill “helped create the tea baggers and empowered their whole wing of the Republican Party where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”
At Thursday’s White House press briefing, CNSNews.com asked: “In Jonathan Alter’s new book the president is quoted as using a vulgar term to describe the Tea Party movement. Is the quote accurate and, if so, does the president regret saying it?”
Gibbs said: “I barely have time to read my own briefing books. No offense to Jonathan, but I have not read his book.”
CNSNews.com followed up: “So, is the answer you don’t know?”
Gibbs said: “The answer is, I haven’t read the book.”
Another reporter asked Gibbs if he would find out whether President Obama in fact used the term "tea bagger."
Gibbs said: “I can’t imagine I would ask the president that.”
Alter's citation of the president using the term "tea bagger" is ironic given the commencement address the president delivered last Saturday at the University of Michigan. In that address, Obama criticized the uncivil discourse of politicians, pundits and talking heads.
“We've got politicians calling each other all sorts of unflattering names,” Obama said. “Pundits and talking heads shout at each other. The media tends to play up every hint of conflict because it makes for a sexier story--which makes anyone interested in getting coverage feels compelled to make the most outrageous comments.”
Maybe that's how we should refer to him from now on....see if he likes it!
Woo Hoo! You were nicer than I would be if they walked into my garage.
I’m not convinced Gibbs has matured to a level associated with any form of a sexual affiliation or drive.
The more he dislikes it and throws homo tantrums, the more we should use it.
He doesn't like don't, don't tell because his homo constituency is demanding our acknowledgement and approval.
They'll never get it no matter how many laws they enact or how much the media is pounding PC policies.
As expected from a homo, 0bagger thinks with his derriere! That makes him a "brilliant" ass!
Gibbs is one of the worst press secretaries I have seen.
Rhamey doesn't have a problem with it.
It is Slime Magazine, but still: Behavior: X-Rated Expletives
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