Apr 14th, 2009 at 4:13 pm
Tea Bagging
I wanted to note that I’ve seen some liberals accused of sullying the purity of our political discourse by deriding the “tea party” movement with jokes about “tea bagging.” I, personally, have tended to eschew such rhetoric. But I did want to cite this late February Dave Weigel post that provides clear photographic evidence that the other side started it:
Reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson himself.
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April 14th, 2009 at 4:15 pm
And to think the term was popularized by a John Waters movie, of all things. He must be loving this idiocy.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Raising things above the MattY/CAP level a bit, supporters and opponents might find my coverage useful.
Opponents should stress the Koch link, the strong objectivist/”greed is good”/”I’ve got mine, Jack” undercurrent, and the fact that the leaders of the party support something that their useful idiot followers most likely oppose.
Supporters should wise up and do #3 on my list instead.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:17 pm
To add another dose of maturity, is the guy on the left wearing a sticker that says “Poop”? I think he might be.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Were there any “Teabag the Morans” signs?
April 14th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
“sullying the purity of our political discourse”
I wasn’t aware that our political discourse even could be sullied. That’s like saying mud-wrestling could get muddier.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:24 pm
Getting tea-bagged sounds like a good thing.” yes please Miss Johansen”
April 14th, 2009 at 4:26 pm
Don’t forget, the real protest action will be at Lonewacko’s Dirty Sanchez party.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:37 pm
Don’t forget, the real protest action will be at Lonewacko’s Dirty Sanchez party.
I believe Neil Cavuto and Glenn Beck will be there, doing their best to entertain the crowd with their somewhat rusty trombone playing.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
So let me get this straight. Some wingnuts declared they were going to protest like old fashioned Boston revolutionaries, and this morphed into dipping their balls into other people’s mouths? Classy bunch.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Not particularly on topic, but it appears to me a bunch of my posts just disappeared from all over Matt’s comments.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
Donkey punch a conservative!
April 14th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
A pure case of the Hindrocket Postulate, which states:
As the wingnuttiness of a crowd increases, the likelihood that they will be unintentionally homoerotic increases exponentially.
There’s no parody like a self parody.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
It’s a little known fact, but Governer Francis fled Boston to avoid a public teabagging from Sam Adams. Of course they didn’t have teabags then, so they just called such a treatment an Intolerable Act.
April 14th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
the other side started it
Don’t make me stop this car, or you’ll BOTH be in trouble!
April 14th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
@DTM I noticed that too. For my part I can’t understand why. It must be a tech glitch. One of my posts with links is being reviewed, if that is a clue.
Re: Teabagging, My guess is that a couple suburban moms read the term somewhere and didn’t know the popular definition.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
Thanks Friendly Reader @11, I just shot Dr Pepper through my nose from laughing so hard!
April 14th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
it appears to me a bunch of my posts just disappeared from all over Matt’s comments
I also noticed a comment of mine that disappeared.
April 14th, 2009 at 5:40 pm
I also noticed one of Al’s comments being gone. I’m aware of the too-many-links-sends-you-to-comment-purgatory problem, but this appears to be something different since the comments were actually available for a while (which makes for puzzling reading as people are quoting from some of my comments in their comments).
Oh well.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:37 pm
I presume you mean that fucking raving maniac with three screws loose and two gone completey – Somerby at the howler.
It’s sad to watch a man have an extended breakdown like this.
April 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I also noticed a comment of mine that disappeared.
I feel I speak for most of us in saying that I feel as though I didn’t miss anything.
April 14th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
Well Senator Larry Widestance Craig(R-ID) inspired me to learn that men’s public toilets were known in the gay vernacular as “Tea rooms.” So I wonder if any tea baggings are going to take place at highway rest areas.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Is that a 12 year old holding that sign? His parents must be real models of virtue and American family values to make that sign for him. I guess that’s his mom next to him with the shirt that says “poo”.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I think that’s a female freeper, they all look like that.
April 14th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I was planning on going to the DC Tea Party event with a sign:
“Teabagging”
Ur doing it wrong
April 14th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
For a compelling perspective on the actual Boston Tea Party (which seems not to have become such the important event of national memory among events leading up to the Revolution until the 1830s [when a lot of Revolutionary War soldiers were dying off]) check out: “The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution” by Alfred Young.
It’s about a poor shoemaker in Boston who participated in the Tea Party and served in the Revolutionary War becoming a kind of minor celebrity late in life (during the Jacksonian era when people were rediscovering Revolutionary era history) but remained a poor shoemaker his entire life.
April 14th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
For a perspective on those kids Phil Spector locked away in their rooms (or the basement, or wherever) check out VC Andrews’: “Flowers in the Attic.”
The girls seemed to like it.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:08 pm
Reminiscent of Thomas Jefferson himself.
Because of all the Founding Fathers, his sack hung lowest.
We now return to our regular unsullied discourse.
April 14th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
I presume you mean that fucking raving maniac with three screws loose and two gone completey – Somerby at the howler.
It’s sad to watch a man have an extended breakdown like this.
For what it’s worth, Somerby is a pioneering critic of the MSM. Of course, he was the among the first to understand and document the media’s War on Gore (and Clinton). And he’s continued to be one of the more perceptive observers of the MSM’s sad hijinks.
April 15th, 2009 at 1:14 am
For those who retain a juvenile glee over the whole silly mess, I’ve noticed lots of references to teabaggin’ and Truck Nutz over at Wonkette today.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:10 am
I’ve noticed lots of references to teabaggin’ and Truck Nutz over at Wonkette today.
That is just another day in the office for Wonkette.
April 15th, 2009 at 8:59 am
On behalf of the Democrats, I swear we’ll change places after you finish us off.
Promise. Cross my heart.