[prisoner6]

Did Ritter use the term in writing to BO? Was he quoting him?

[Sans-Culotte]

Did Ritter use the term in writing to BO? Was he quoting him?

It would appear that he did, to wit: “I watched you make fun of tea baggers and your press secretary make fun of Ms. [Sarah] Palin which was especially beneath the dignity of the White House,” Ritter closed.

I don't know that I can hold it against Hussein for echoing a term used in the original letter from the teacher.

[Mozilla]

He did use the term in his letter to the usurper Obama. But I am not sure why unless he was trying to make the point that critics get called that name.

“I watched you make fun of tea baggers and your press secretary make fun of Ms. [Sarah] Palin which was especially beneath the dignity of the White House,” Ritter closed.

“I do have to challenge you, though, on the notion that any citizen that disagrees with me has been ‘targeted and ridiculed’ or that I have ‘made fun’ of tea baggers,” the president replied, echoing Ritter’s use of the derogatory term...