Posted on 04/16/2009 9:47:09 AM PDT by lewisglad
For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.
For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word "teabagging" in a sentence.
Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth.
So when the anti-tax "tea party" protests were held Wednesday across the country, cable anchors and guests -- who for weeks had all but ignored the story -- covered the protests by cracking a litany of barely concealed sexual references.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed "teabagging" references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still "searching for their voice."
"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.
MSNBC's David Shuster weaved a tapestry of "Animal House" humor Monday as he filled in for Countdown host Keith Olbermann.
The protests, he explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."
He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.
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The protests, he explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."
He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.
David Shuster : Another self-outed poofter on the queen pmsnbc.
On this point I would have to defer to David Schuster.
Let’s get organized and address the advertisers.
We can Freep
neither...he’s in the corner with a hand down his pants :)
When the dimwits in the media cover topics they don’t agree with, they make fun of it. When it’s topics they agree with it’s serious and heartfelt crying....You bunch of rat bastards in the media are all transparent!
Don’t you think it’s interesting how the Left is so informed about the homosexual lifestyle and how much it knows about deviant sexual practices?
When this first came up earlier this week and I heard Rachel Madow smirk about “teabagging,” I as the ignorant religious fundamentalist didn’t get the “joke.”
Any one with name like Anna Marie COX, (the Air Amerika Twit) should tread lightly around the subject of teabagging
The old parable about people who live in glass houses and stones...
You can bet a ton of three-dollar bills old Anderson... knows first hand how hard it is to talk when you're teabagging or being teabagged!
Perhaps Barney Frank... could give a six semester seminar on teabagging for fun and profit.
You do know all three are members of the Wide Stance?
Of course! LOL
So, it’s bigoted to ridicule homosexuals but not bigoted to accuse those one doesn’t like of being homosexuals? Sounds like even an idiot like Anderson Cooper knows being a homosexual is disgusting thing to be.
Bunch of cretins!!
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