Posted on 01/14/2011 5:41:07 PM PST by jeltz25
In Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter's " The Promise: President Obama, Year One ," to be released May 18, according to The Washington Post , the President is quoted as saying that Republican opposition to the stimulus "helped create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans."
"Tea-bagging" is a derogatory term for the Tea Party movement that has sexual connotations.
The term 'tea-baggers' has been used by liberal commentators Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann on their MSNBC shows for the Tea Party movement. Senator John Kerry and Senator Chuck Schumer have used the term in campaign mailings according to The Washington Examiner .
Even CNN's Anderson Cooper used the term in an interview with David Gergen on his show. But most politicians have avoided using it publicly.
Interestingly, The New York Times report that a congressman recounted that Obama used the term on November 9th, which is earlier than the interview in Alter's book. The report quotes Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who said the President asked: "Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?"
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Not only that, but numerous media members used the same term. And don't kid yourself, they all know what it means. Especially Maddow, an out lesbian. You think she doesn't know what it means? Think Anderson Cooper who's been mentioned in numerous gay rumours doesn't know what it means?
Did NBC say anything about their high-priced "talent" using anti-gay slurs? Did CNN?
Other Senators like Kerry and Schumer used it in official mailings. Any complaints by the media?
Was Obama bringing division by resorting to anti-gay slurs to score political points? Is that really Presidential? Has any President other than Nixon used such crude language when describing the opposition?
Hopefully someone calls him and all these other dems and liberals on it. They do this all the time. No one cared when it was conservatives being attacked.
From what I read on Hillbuzz, obama’s teabags got a lot of attention in Boys Town.
Sounds pretty vitriolic to me.
Sounds pretty vitriolic to me.
FUBO! You arrogant POS.
Excuse me, and please, I don’t have my asbestos suit on tonight, so keep the flamers to a minimum.
How can the term “teabagger” be derogatory?
It was invented by the queer community to proudly announce a practice that they, exclusively, like to engage in. In their circles, being a “teabagger” is a badge of honor. (I know this because I work with several folks who endeavor to see how far they can push the hetero. So far, they can’t show this old sailor anything he ain’t seen before, and it p*sses them off.)
Now all of a sudden it’s “homophobic” to use the word teabagger? How can this be? If this isn’t a wild spin!
It is intentionally used by the left in attempts to insult and humiliate the Tea Party. This nonsense about it being homophobic is cynical, extremist, and indicative of how far these hatemongers are willing to go to twist reality into something only Mr. Stitch himself could love.
Anyone who thinks “teabagging” is an exclusively gay practice is walking around blind without a cane.
I don’t think exclusivity is the issue. It’s more the use of the word and what it refers to. Can you image the response if conservatives went around calling homosexuals c***suckers.
I think Anderson Cooper was the first to use “teabagger”.
Obama is a crass individual. He and Joe "BFD" Biden are a matched set.
That’s one of the filthiest words,but it describes them (the homos)perfectly!
In all likelihood, there are many more tea baggers among Obama supporters, than among the Tea Party crowd!
That's my terminology of choice...
That is the sheer madness of it; let’s face it, there are many, many more gays in the Democratic and other left wing parties, than there are among the Tea Parties.
To call Tea Party people tea baggers, for the tiny amount of gays, IF ANY, in the Tea Party movement is just plain stupid
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