Hartford Courant Reporter Uses Pejorative 'Tea-Bagger' Term in Story

NewsBusters ^ | September 13, 2009 | P.J. Gladnick

[PJ-Comix]

Gee! Guess where a reporter is coming from if he uses the vulgar and childish term "tea-bagger" when referring to tea party protestors?

Anderson Cooper was among the first "journalists" who used the "tea bagging" term back in April. Despite his initial glee over injecting "tea bagging" as often as possible into his comments on the tea party protests, Cooper was eventually forced to apologize for his highly unprofessional use of that term.

Although the use of "tea bagger" has now become generally recognized as the mark of liberal unprofessionalism it does keep creeping back into stories such as a few weeks ago when a CBS online editor used that term in his blog. And now we have Christopher Keating who took a dive into unprofessionalism due to the use of "tea-bagger" twice in his Hartford Courant article on a tea party protest.

Keating managed to make it through a few paragraphs in his report before giving way to his inner child:

[The Ignorant Fisherman]

I was at the Hartford rally. it was awesome! i also saw the lib write up on Sat. what else can these haters say. When the Sate is your God and Obama your Messiah and immorality your righteousness you can't expect nothing less from these. Just laugh at them. their losing!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Had a lib say it to me this weekend. My reply: “Tea-baggers, huh? Like Barney Frank’s favorite deviancy?”

Walked away...