Posted on 11/08/2009 8:09:38 AM PST by kristinn
Barack Hussein Obama II, used a crude gay-baiting sexual slur to denigrate Tea Party patriots in a talk with House Democrats yesterday on Capitol Hill, reported the New York Times:
According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
The word 'teabag' is used to describe a sexual practice popular in the homosexual community. Earlier this year as the anti-big government protest movement exploded across the country, liberals in the media first started calling conservative and libertarian protesters organizing under the Tea Party banner, "teabaggers," in a juvenile effort to gay-bait the protesters. Democrats, including now the president of the United States, have also used the slur.
The gay-baiting slur was used with gusto on MSNBC in April by anchors David Shuster and rachel Maddow. Newsbusters quoted Shuster:
For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15th will be Tax Day. But in our fourth story tonight: It's going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they're going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals.
"They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending - spending they did not oppose when they were under presidents Bush and Reagan. They oppose Mr. Obama's tax rates - which will be lower for most of them -- and they oppose the tax increases Mr. Obama is imposing on the rich, whose taxes will skyrocket to a rate about 10 percent less than it was under Reagan. That's teabagging in a nut shell."
Newsbusters also reported the term was used 51 times in one segment on the Rachel Maddow show.
CNN's Anderson Cooper piled on the same week with his own gay-baiting 'teabagging' slurs.
Hat tip Kathyrn Jean Lopez at NRO.
Thanks so much for your yes vote on Affordable Health Care for All Americans - or whatever ridiculous name you guys gave to this monstrosity. I'm sure the trial lawyers are amused and grateful that "Affordable" didn't involve taking away their gravy train
I'll be looking forward to you signing up yourself and your family for the health care plan that you're shoving down our throats.
Or....are all you so called representatives snickering LET THEM EAT CAKE.
What an understanding unifier is he not!? He’s throwing fuel on the flames, and from his lack of leadership, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.
True story or not that sickens me......
Maybe we should ask Michelle what does this mean?
Agreed... what’s with ‘gay-baiting’ in the title.. makes FR look stupid, IMHO.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2381533/posts?page=28#28
Although your statment is true it is a deflection away from the fact that the term originated in the Gay community and those who use the term to describe the Tea Party attendees are using it in the Gay context so as to poke fun of those atendees.
Yes, it IS crude, and tasteless. But, not NECESSARILLY gay.
That is what O-hole does. Shoot the bird, snark off like a “homie” - while protected with bodyguards - that is just what he does and who he is.
We have had weak presidents, corrupt presidents, and stupid presidents. But this is our first punk president. Truly transformative, as Parlor Marshal Colin Powell gushed.
The practice is common with homosexuals and uncommon with heterosexuals.
Think about it, what's the fun in that for the libs?
They're gay-baiting.
I guess this means the two black athletes that held their arms up during the national anthem at the ‘68 olympics were ‘fisters’.
I am in the dark about what tea bagging is...
This guy wouldn’t dare say the things he does if he didn’t have his back completely secured. Watch for an astounding announcemtnt very soon, folks. GOD BOLESS AMERICA!
As Kakaze correctly points out, that distinction is immaterial. Outside of the Starr, report, when’s the last time we heard a living president talking about a specific sex act?
I’m pretty sure the answer is “never.”
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