Posted on 10/22/2009 4:16:34 PM PDT by mojito
Yesterday, I had a note on Anita Dunn, Fox News, CNN, and all that jazz. I said that a CNN anchorman, Anderson Cooper, had coined this “teabagger” epithet against anti-Obama protesters. “Teabagging” is a sexual practice defined in that earlier note of mine: and Cooper used it in a very specific context. Almost immediately, Democratic pundits and politicians picked up the epithet, “mainstreaming” it. (Of course, when something begins with a CNN anchorman, it pretty much starts life mainstream.)
Many, many readers wrote me yesterday saying that George Stephanopoulos, host of This Week, had used “teabagger” or “teabagging” that very morning. So had one of his guests, E. J. Dionne — but Dionne is a pundit, an opinionist, and Stephanopoulos is a host, right? Isn’t he supposed to be David Brinkley now? When last I was a real TV-watcher, he was saying that Gennifer Flowers had doctored the tapes and so on.
My readers complain that Republicans and conservatives let Stephanopoulos et al. get away with “teabagger.” For example, why doesn’t George Will say something? Shame them, rebuke them? I myself am afraid that “teabagger” is here to say. And perhaps conservatives will “own” the insult, as they say? Or maybe they have owned it already? Alternatively, is “teabagger” to be a conservative N-word, acceptable — even joyously employed — among conservatives, but nasty and impermissible from liberals?
The White House war on Fox News is quite interesting. My impression is that the Obama people are very, very unused to criticism or “pushback” — especially from the media. They are used to support. (Remember when Obama reminded a ballroom of journalists that they had all voted for him?) So Fox looks very exotic and alien to them. George W. Bush’s people would never have singled out, say, MSNBC.
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cooper knows all about teabagging.
I do not doubt that Anderson Cooper knows ALL about teabaging.
teabagging may be more commonplace as a homosexual “device” or technique or practice, but there’s nothing about it that’s exclusively homosexual.
On Bret Baiers show on FOX News while ago they said obama’s peeps tried to exclude Fox from a press conference of some sort and all the other networks said If Fox wasn’t included they didn’t want to be included either!
WOW!! The other networks stood up for Fox!! Wow!
You could be right, so use that expression in another sentence for me.....what is your sentence using it. Help me out here..
Consider the source when it comes to vulgarities.
One thing the left knows is perversion.
“”Carpet Muncher Finally Apologizes For Slandering Rush””
Great idea..I like it.
Ordinarily, in the evolution of language, bad meanings drive good meanings out of use. But sometimes the opposite happens...
Are you aware that he’s Gloria Vanderbilt’s son?
I've always wondered why it's always OK for the left to use whatever vulgarities they want but they're always the first to scream like scalded cats when those same type slurs are used on them.
Krauthammer used the term “teabag” on the Baier show tonight. I’m afraid we’re stuck with it.
Yes I am. It might, in some courts of law, be considered an extenuating circumstance.
I still have absolutely no idea what it is. Whatever it is, I’m sure I don’t give a crap. Half the guys in the office were laughing at the “joke.” I am not ashamed to say that I’m not in on it.
Agood comeback would be: Is that the best you have? or Your words can’t hurt us.
It is interesting that, when the part of "there's nothing wrong with gay, no matter what the Bible says" is looking for an insult, they imply that those who object to socialism are ... gay.
Why don’t the Log Cabin Republicans point out that the “Teabagger” label is homophobic?
“On June 23, 2009, the 85-year-old Vanderbilt's novel entitled “Obsession: An Erotic Tale,” was published by Ecco. The book has garnered media attention for its racy content, including, “scenes involving dildos, whips, silken cords and golden nipple clamps... spanking... Mint, cayenne pepper and a fresh garden carrot.. deployed [sic] in ways never envisioned by “The Joy of Cooking.” And there is also a unicorn, though, blessedly, it remains a bystander.” [12]”
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