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Thursday, April 16, 2009

FOX News: There's Nothing Funny About Teabagging

Posted by David Schmader on Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 3:40 PM

Oh, FOX:

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.

Read the whole wonderful thing here. (Added bonus: the 793 comments!)

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1
Well, what do you expect us to do, when we all know most of those people are in-the-closet "youth ministers" ... at the protests?
Posted by Will in Seattle on April 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM
2
Any media outlet that houses Glenn Beck can hardly be called mature, can it?
Posted by Baconcat on April 16, 2009 at 3:42 PM
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The most upsetting part of this is how all of a sudden the PASSING DEBT ON TO THE CHILDRENS!!! ZOMG! has gotten so much play on the right.

Does anybody remember when MoveOn.org produced the brilliant commercial of children doing jobs ("Who will pay for Bush's 1 trillion dollar deficit?")

CBS refused to air it. Conservatives were absolutely FREAKING. OUT.

they are such hypocrites. they are such, such, hypocritical hypocrites.

Watch the ad from a few years ago here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9WKimKIy…
Posted by They disgust me on April 16, 2009 at 3:49 PM
4
I'd love to see the next trend of the conservative wingnuts go something like this:

In referring to the debt and the deficit as things that inevitably grow larger as they go downhill.

Snowballing. Snowballing debts. Snowballing deficits. Snowballing economic troubles.

This time next year, I want to see Republicans throwing large snowballing demonstrations.
Posted by Ackham on April 16, 2009 at 3:54 PM
5
"Click here to join a discussion on teabagging"

I love these people. They are a constant source of entertainment.
Posted by Hernandez on April 16, 2009 at 3:56 PM
6
I just read some of the comments on that little link you put up. Thats a quite a bit of hatred. Is it wrong to hope they revolt. Some remember when peaceful liberals were shot by the national guard at Kent State. Maybe it's time the Conservatives faced the guns.
Posted by General Jack Ripper on April 16, 2009 at 4:05 PM
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#6 The key difference here is that peaceful liberals didn't bring their own guns to the protests.

Comparing these protests to liberal protests is inaccurate and potentially dangerous.
Posted by Ackham on April 16, 2009 at 4:12 PM
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Um, I hate FOX "News" too and those protests were off-the-charts ridiculous, but what part of that article is not 100% correct? I don't get it.
Posted by David on April 16, 2009 at 4:30 PM
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This is great, the teabaggers have just come to the realization of what exactly they did yesterday, and no amount of listerine will reverse that. And Fox, Dick Army, and Newt Gingrich have escaped like rapists into the night.
Posted by Just the Facts, Ma'm on April 16, 2009 at 4:33 PM
Posted by which side of the Revolution are you on? on April 16, 2009 at 4:47 PM
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I hear this whole movement started with just a few Cleveland residents, steaming open clams as a metaphor to protest the administrations perceived lack of transparency. My 7th grade sense of humor eagerly awaits the coverage.
Posted by Dougsf on April 16, 2009 at 4:48 PM
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I guess you could say that the media’s new catch phrase these days is Tea Party. A couple of years ago, this tradition was reborn by a nationwide grassroots movement of non-partisan freedom lovers, who are seeking a return to the Constitutional roots of this nation.

Arising first as the Ron Paul Revolution and now the Campaign For Liberty, this diverse and tech-savvy group of creative individuals reignited the idea of liberty in the political collective consciousness. Congressman Ron Paul has stated many times, "freedom is popular", so as our liberties continue to be curtailed, the resistance grows. Our instinctive reflex is to rebuke these incremental attacks on our un-a-lien-able rights. This human dynamic to rebel against tyranny is also well known by the elite controllers of the world today. The veritable peaceful, organic, spontaneous, synchronistic rebellion by the immensely informed sovereigns, united under one banner of freedom, has to be prevented at all costs by the establishment. A genuine social movement would enable a paradigm shift to occur, which would enhance the publics understanding of the true geopolitical construct that sustains the status quo. This will allow people to stop fixating on presidential appointments and start focusing on the control system itself, and the architects of the global agenda who manipulate both sides of the political spectrum.

We just witnessed the liberal, anti-war, anti-Patriot Act movement, co-opted by the slick packaging of hope and change, coupled with Obama’s cult of personality. Another predictive programming operation has now been implemented in order to imprint a false neo-conservative overlay over the growing liberty movement. This will trigger a negative auto-response by those unaware of the neuro-linguistic keywords used by the media to falsely label the movement, thus preventing the next crucial growth period from happening. The liberal newspapers and blogs are playing the part by going after their predetermined enemy, but now categorizing the Tea Party movement as a pathetic swipe against Obama by the right. I do agree in some sense that the failed and discredited republicans are basing these events around attacking Obama, while ignoring issues such as the private Federal Reserve system. The problem is that the Orwellian newspeak media has left out the fact that the Ron Paul Tea Parties started under the Bush administration, and were not focused on attacking Bush, but instead were exposing the unconstitutionality of the Fed, IRS, NAU, Patriot Act, NAFTA, wars for empire and the list goes on. Our enemy is not a politician, political party or pundit, it’s the corporate governmental mechanisms of control that expand no matter who is in office.

Using history as our guide, we know that the only way for a tyrannical government to prevent an emergent revolution is to co-opt it by managing who is given the media attention, and how the movement evolves and dissolves. This is a covert operation, a false flag in a sense, using the Ron Paul meme as the camouflage for the foxes underneath. A short time ago, the spirit of the RPR was riding the wave of liberty in the political ocean and was all but ignored or ridiculed. Congressman Paul was the only candidate providing the gust of political fresh air, moving away the fog, allowing us to see the mammoth iceberg named, Federal Reserve System, approaching our vessel. Some pundits from the defunct and discredited false left-right paradigm called his supporters domestic terrorists, for questioning the unconstitutional private apparatuses of the government that have a stranglehold on the American people. Now, these same million dollar media spin-doctors, are having Ron Paul on their shows weekly to speak about the Fed and the 12.8 trillion looting that has occurred over the last year.

The partisan press cycle has picked up on these recent Tea Party events since they are organized by the establishment right as opposition to the left, leaving out the non-partisan Constitutional issues at the forefront of the Ron Paul Tea Parties. The groups organizing the Tea Party takeover are asking for tens of thousands of donations to cover the costs of limiting your free speech. The San Antonio Tea Party, which will feature the front man for Tea Party takeover Glen Beck, states what type of signs are acceptable. This blatant hijacking of the patriot, truth and liberty movement, should be further confirmation that the majority of Americans are waking up and shaking off the two-party propaganda tool that is used to divide and conquer. New counter measures had to be taken by the ruling oligarchy to prevent any further movement outside their control system. The current financial crisis has lifted the veil just enough for some light to pass through, so they need to apply a new layer of filters to conceal the truth behind the veil.

Several bills have been introduced by Congressman Ron Paul that would audit the Fed and abolish the private non-federal bank and return the monetary system back to the people through the Constitution. It’s also imperative that in the midst of this controlled demolition of our financial system, that we factually point out those who are responsible, and call for the arrest and punishment for their crimes.

The usurpers are now corralling this new group of truth seekers that we can reach, planting truthseeds, that will unlock their minds from the false reality pushers of the New World Order. We have the documentaries, books, declassified documents, think-tank policy reports, verifiable government documents to show the past, present and future goals of the New World Order. So now is the time to take action, get involved again and begin reaching out to these new minds before they get duped into the false revolution being perpetuated by the mainstream media.

Countless activists in the movement are impeding this infiltration by using the digital printing press, and burning videos that show the creation of the Fed, IRS, and the New World Order agenda for a global currency, enforced by global government run by private international bankers. We now have a chance to breakaway from the staged political system and grow the movement by reaching the newcomers to events such as the Tea Party, End The Fed and July 4th events that are occurring over the course of the year.

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Posted by Bob on April 16, 2009 at 4:52 PM
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The best part of the article? "Click here to join a discussion on teabagging."

Er, no thanks, Fox News.
Posted by EJ on April 16, 2009 at 4:53 PM
14
Wow - bob you cut and paste real good.
Posted by boob on April 16, 2009 at 5:00 PM
15
Wow, looks like Fox doesn't like learning that their pet project is the object of nationwide ridicule.

David @8: "what part of that article is not 100% correct? I don't get it. "

It's not that the article is incorrect, it's the bitter, hurt, priggish tone of the article that makes it hilarious. It's like it was written by a crusading middle schooler who was duped into putting a "I support road head" bumper sticker on his locker because he was convinced by pranksters that 'road head' was the name of a band that was imprisoned and tortured in Iraq. "You guys are SO JUVENILE!" Fox News shrieks tearfully as he runs into the bathroom to hide.
Posted by Mike on April 16, 2009 at 5:04 PM
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827 comments now.
Posted by this guy I know in Spokane on April 16, 2009 at 5:05 PM
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Shorter version of Bob's comment, for the impatient: "Kibbles and Bits! Kibbles and Bits! Gabba gabba!"
Posted by Fnarf on April 16, 2009 at 5:17 PM
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'"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.'

Beautiful.
Posted by wench on April 16, 2009 at 5:32 PM
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STOP CALLING ME A HOMO!
Posted by Awkward Christian Youtube Kid on April 16, 2009 at 5:37 PM
20
The article is incorrect in thinking only rude frat boys know what teabagging means or think it's funny. I know they wish thats how it is, but they themselves just reported that the whole spectrum of TV audiences are rolling in the aisles at the hilarity of it.

And the fact that the Boston Tea Party was a righteous protest against taxation without representation, and the teabaggers are making a travesty of that.
Posted by elenchos on April 16, 2009 at 5:51 PM
21
wait.. if they think it is immature and not funny. Then why are there so many lame attempts at teabagging jokes in the comments? Oh! are they making it their own! adorable.
Posted by the Uke on April 16, 2009 at 6:17 PM
22
Fox news has the moral authority to be upset, after all, no one from Fox has ever insulted liberals.
Posted by Yeah, right... on April 16, 2009 at 6:40 PM
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from the article: "The events were held in dozens of cities across the country, and while some demonstrators were criticized for wielding off-topic and sometimes insensitive protest signs, most took to the streets to speak out against government spending. "

Translation: "Dammit! Alright who invited the white supremacists? ...what do you mean that's most of our base?"
Posted by Beguine on April 16, 2009 at 6:57 PM
24
This gives me a great idea for a pride float this year!

"A Salute to Tea-Bagging!"
Posted by Rob in Baltimore on April 17, 2009 at 7:15 AM
25
You know a protest is serious when the organizers use the term "tea-bagging" and are egged on by that bastion of sincerity and formality Glen Beck.

It does seems more than a little disingenuous for the right to be calling the left out on giggling over the blue-meaning of "teabagging" when the tea-party organizers weren't doing anything to stop its use. As Joe Garofoli at the SFGate noted:

I asked Michael Meckler, the national protest coordinator why they used the phrase and he just kind of shrugged. Said it was still a loose operation and that people could call it whatever they wanted as long as they participated. Maybe it was loud around us, but I don't think he understood the question.

Posted by stuckinboston on April 17, 2009 at 8:42 AM
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Aww, the teabaggers don't like their well-deserved ridicule? Maybe they should write about it on their LiveJournals.
Posted by Greg on April 17, 2009 at 9:34 AM

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