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[MSNBC & CNN] Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor
Fox News ^ | Thursday, April 16, 2009

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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To: lewisglad
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.

David Shuster : Another self-outed poofter on the queen pmsnbc.

21 posted on 04/16/2009 10:08:18 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your law is my delight.)
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To: lewisglad

On this point I would have to defer to David Schuster.


22 posted on 04/16/2009 10:15:08 AM PDT by The Good Doctor (Democracy is the only system where you can vote for a tax that you can avoid the obligation to pay.)
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To: lewisglad


I'm sure these three know all about it. LOL
23 posted on 04/16/2009 10:23:24 AM PDT by smartin (The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.)
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To: Made In The USA

Let’s get organized and address the advertisers.
We can Freep


24 posted on 04/16/2009 10:23:38 AM PDT by Sir Beowolf ("We The People")
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To: Retired COB

neither...he’s in the corner with a hand down his pants :)


25 posted on 04/16/2009 10:26:19 AM PDT by VanillaBlizzard
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To: lewisglad

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!


26 posted on 04/16/2009 10:36:06 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: lewisglad

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.”


27 posted on 04/16/2009 10:52:00 AM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: lewisglad
Rachel Maddow’s segments over the past week with guest, Air America’s Ana Marie Cox, would dissolve all doubt.



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...

28 posted on 04/16/2009 11:27:17 AM PDT by RedMonqey
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Re: "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained.

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... Photobucket could give a six semester seminar on teabagging for fun and profit.

29 posted on 04/16/2009 11:30:33 AM PDT by Bender2 ("I've got a twisted sense of humor, and everything amuses me." RAH Beyond this Horizon)
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To: smartin

You do know all three are members of the Wide Stance?


30 posted on 04/16/2009 11:33:10 AM PDT by Vendome
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31 posted on 04/16/2009 11:34:01 AM PDT by lewisglad
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To: Vendome

Of course! LOL


32 posted on 04/16/2009 11:59:14 AM PDT by smartin (The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior.)
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To: lewisglad

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.


33 posted on 04/16/2009 12:00:40 PM PDT by Ol' Sparky (Liberal Republicans are the greater of two evils)
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To: lewisglad
One wonders why these twerps are so obsessed with tea bags.


34 posted on 04/16/2009 12:12:02 PM PDT by 50mm (My respect for zero has reached zero)
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To: Bender2

Bunch of cretins!!


35 posted on 04/16/2009 1:44:17 PM PDT by blackie (Be Well~Be Armed~Be Safe~Molon Labe!)
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