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OPINION: 'Learn To Speak Tea Bag'
NPR ^ | 11.12.09 | Mark Fiore

Posted on 10/21/2010 5:05:39 AM PDT by Thebaddog

Learning a new language doesn't have to be hard, especially when "Tea Bag" is so minimalistic! Mark Fiore offers his personal take in this animation. The Wall Street Journal dubbed Fiore "the undisputed guru of the form." He creates political animation from an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco.

Interested in learning more about the origins of the 'tea bag' movement? Jay Nordlinger of The National Review breaks down where the term came from, what it means, and why it's been embraced — and rejected — by conservatives and liberals alike.

You can read NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard's thoughts on this cartoon here.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: liberal; npr; teabag
This one is for Juan Williams!
1 posted on 10/21/2010 5:05:42 AM PDT by Thebaddog
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To: Thebaddog

The first act of this new congress should be to unfund NPR.

They are bigots who cannot tolerate other points of view and because their extreme views are shared by so few, they cannot fund themselves.


2 posted on 10/21/2010 5:11:33 AM PDT by NeilGus
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To: Thebaddog
it's been embraced — and rejected — by conservatives and liberals alike.

I'm not going to listen to NPR to find out, but somehow, I doubt there's a lot of conservatives "embracing" the term...

3 posted on 10/21/2010 5:15:58 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: Izzy Dunne
In videogamer terminology "to teabag" is to do a victory dance over your fallen opponent.

A "teabagger" is therefore a "winner".

4 posted on 10/21/2010 5:24:54 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: Thebaddog

It sure is interesting that all the left wing proxies are suddenly trying to start a fight just days out from an election.

Oh puhlease don’t throw me in that briar patch.


5 posted on 10/21/2010 5:43:07 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: Thebaddog

Note to Alicia: Don’t forget to say how much you love Muslims.


6 posted on 10/21/2010 5:44:25 AM PDT by altura
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To: muawiyah

A “teabagger” is therefore a “winner”.

So then the democrazy party will be tea bagged the night of the election?

Just laying there with their mouths wide open ? Waiting for the prize?


7 posted on 10/21/2010 5:58:41 AM PDT by reefdiver ("Let His day's be few And another takes His office")
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To: reefdiver

the left is always using the tea****g with a snicker because of the homosexual sex connotations.

They don’t even want the pulblic to know or understand what happened in 1773. even the history channel censors it.


8 posted on 10/21/2010 6:13:04 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: reefdiver
Yes, we will take our video game puppets and activate them to move up and down over our fallen opponents puppets.

BTW, this is not possible with PONG, so if you've not kept up with video games since those halcyon days, things have definitely changed!

9 posted on 10/21/2010 6:14:50 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: muawiyah
A "teabagger" is therefore a "winner".

Same holds true in the porn industry.

10 posted on 10/21/2010 6:15:54 AM PDT by kabar
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To: kabar

No doubt the porn industry has “riding time” on the concept, but think of all the children who apply a totally different situation to the term.


11 posted on 10/21/2010 6:17:27 AM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: Thebaddog
Interested in learning more about the origins of the 'tea bag' movement? Jay Nordlinger of The National Review breaks down where the term came from, what it means, and why it's been embraced — and rejected — by conservatives and liberals alike. You can read NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard's thoughts on this cartoon here.

NPR is losing it.

First, they fire Juan Williams because he dare express an opinion ON ANOTHER NETWORK (which I feel is legally actionable by Mister Williams), and now this gutterslime trash talk.

This crew needs to be immediately shut down.

12 posted on 10/21/2010 6:22:12 AM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Thebaddog

I have never heard it referred to as “tea bag movement”, NPR needs to be abolished. They serve no purpose whatsoever.


13 posted on 10/21/2010 6:26:18 AM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: GeronL

In the homosexual community, a tea bagger is the dominant one.

I guess the RATS will get “tea bagged” on election day.

Hey Bill Maher, open wide!


14 posted on 10/21/2010 6:35:10 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Remember March 23, 1775. Remember March 23, 2010)
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To: Thebaddog

We’re just learning that NPR is biased? So is the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

Leftist ideas usually require government subsidies.


15 posted on 10/21/2010 7:10:49 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Class warfare is Obama's thing.)
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To: Thebaddog
Anderson Cooper: "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging" (at :48 in.): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I64Ed5iLu4M
16 posted on 10/21/2010 7:11:43 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: muawiyah

LOL..... me thinks you seriously missed the inference of “victory dance over your fallen opponent”.


17 posted on 10/21/2010 9:50:45 AM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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To: dusttoyou
Check my post at #9, plus I was using an euphemism for "dick dance" as in "do a dick dance on your head".

What, exactly, did you imagine that was about?

18 posted on 10/21/2010 1:07:40 PM PDT by muawiyah ("GIT OUT THE WAY" The Republicans are coming)
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To: muawiyah

What exactly did you not understand that my response was to your Post #4. Don’t GAF about your further rude posts.


19 posted on 10/21/2010 5:28:44 PM PDT by dusttoyou (Let the other side get all wee-wee'd up, Remember come November)
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