Tea Bagging

[den]

When I first heard of the Republicans doing mass tea bagging, I wondered about it.

Comments

[siliconshaman.livejournal.com]

Yeah ... I thought that was what they were trying to get us to do to them...

[dabroots.livejournal.com]

It's amusing, and references to it in recent days have been making me chuckle.

[dragonpearl.livejournal.com]

Apparantly the Republicans have never heard of the slang for it and they are just making themselves look like idiots in today's youth, the same youth they are trying to attract.

[sleepyjohn00.livejournal.com]

The same Republicans who don't understand why the kids' faces scrunch up when they talk about getting a Hummer.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

That one was at least on the edge of my consciousness. Language changes very rapidly, and that's a perfect example. Another of my favorites:

[marmoe.livejournal.com]

PR FAIL. :-D

I do need a bit of help in American History, here. Does this article get it right? (http://www.alternet.org/story/132440/the_hilarious_hypocrisy_of_the_gop's_so-called_'tea_bag_revolution'/?page=entire) If yes, the protesters even got the intended association wrong.

[fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com]

Yeah... it's pretty stupid. Our local Republicans are hiding in embarassment.

The videos of the teaparties are even wackier.

Video of Skip forward to the good part past minute 2 about government controlling us through cable converter boxes and book burning. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwdOwgD5OsY&feature=player_embedded)

Even sillier, one of the uberconservative groups in the US launched an anti-gay marriage campaign called 2M4M (Two Million for Marriage) somehow missing that in personal ads for gays that "two guys seeking another for threesome". And also stupidly DIDN'T BUY THE DOMAIN FIRST. So another pro-marriage group snapped it up. More on the fail (http://community.livejournal.com/ontd_political/2805593.html)

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Mogg! It appears that the older generation - myself included - have no idea this meaning is out there.

On another hand, it's a shame that such expressions get created, but there it is.

[EDIT]: While it's not my favorite after-dinner reading material, people might be well-advised to drop by the Urban Dictionary before using slang expressions...

[hallan.livejournal.com]

Is this a case of 'if you can't attack the message, attack the messenger'? Or is it more a case of 'who forgot to check the innuendo dictionary first'?

[ursuscal.livejournal.com]

It just goes to show how out of touch those morons are. They don't even know the slang meaning of what they call their movement...

[roycalbeck.livejournal.com]

Except of course that this is about as much of a "Republican movement" as the ANSWER protests were a "Democrat movement".

Yes, the conservative bloggers and such are hyping it up. And the liberal bloggers and such are working overtime to dismiss the whole thing out of hand. Reality, as in most cases, remains somewhere in the center.

Those who're smugly insisting this is a "Get Obama" thing: most of the actual hoo-rah is anger over the bailouts --- you know, the same stuff liberals were castigating Bush for just a year ago. The fact that the people shouting anger at "corporate welfare" are wearing Colonial-era costumes instead of tie-dyed t-shirts makes not a bit of difference.

One added concern of course is the worry over the exploding deficit, which WAS a problem for liberal bloggers and such a year ago...when Obama was not in the White House.