Have high level liberal operatives infiltrated the right-wing message machine? NSFW

[Equipoise]

@Justin_Bailey

Not to mention the fact that 25% of the country don’t really use the Internet at all.

And 75% do. That’s an awful lot of people. And, as I pointed out in my thread, and Long Time First Time pointed out here, it was part of a classic scene in a very popular TV show. Sure the show was just on HBO, but people* talked about it* (the show itself, and probably that scene too) because the show would deal with things you just wouldn’t hear about elsewhere. I’m a pretty boring vanilla person and I’ve never seen an episode of Sex In The City myself, but I knew that teabagging was a sexual term, probably from a combination of hearing people vaguely reference that scene, and from seeing Pecker in the theater.

That 2M4M is more obscure, but hilarious too. I’m so utterly delighted watching all this foolishness from the right. They fucked everything up. Now we get to scorn them AND laugh at them. That’s awesome!

[Bosstone]

Wiki has a list of pop culture references to teabagging. There’s not many in the list, but what is there is pretty mainstream. I think knowledge of the word goes a little beyond X-Box Live trashtalkers.

[nani]

It took me a while to realize that 2M4M didn’t mean “Two Men For Marriage.” I didn’t know the other connotation of it until reading it here.

I don’t like teabags anyway. I prefer loose leaf.

[Kobal2]

OTOH, their organization’s acronym is cute and yummy. OM NOM NOM NOM NOM. Bigoted lolcats !

[elucidator]

Probably one amongst thier number knew the connotations of the phrase, Bevis-wise, but didn’t want to admit it, for fear of drawing suspicion.

[Merijeek]

Is there some reason these dumbfucks couldn’t have had “Tea Parties” so Justin_Bailey didn’t have to limply flail around in this thread?

-Joe

[Equipoise]

@davidm

Have high level liberal operatives infiltrated the right-wing message machine in order to make them look silly?

Okay, I’m asking that with tongue firmly in cheek, but look at the evidence.

Uh oh, more evidence! A speaker at one of the Glenn Beck “9-12 Project” events goes a bit over the top:

“In the early 50s our country was infiltrated by the communist party,” he says, calling the Obama administration the culmination of that infiltration. “They’re doing everything they can to brainwash our public…This thing they’re putting on our TVs,” he says, presumably referring to digital cable converters, “it’s a brainwash unit!”

As his speech winds down, he exhorts his listeners to get their kids “the hell out of college. They’re brainwashing 'em!”

They put brainwashing units in the converter boxes?? Holy shit! Why isn’t Fox, CNN, MSNBC and Katie Couric onto this explosive story?

Plus, near the end of the clip, a woman (off camera) throws in her two cents:

“Burn the books!” she yells from off-camera. The surprised camera man asks if she’s serious, and which books she’d burn. “The ones in college, the brainwashing books, like the evolution crap.”

Surely those must be left-wing agitators, right? Just like the “Birthers” who claim President Obama was born in Kenya. They all must be left-wingers too. No one could really be that stupid, seriously.

[Equipoise]

@Merijeek

Is there some reason these dumbfucks couldn’t have had “Tea Parties” so Justin_Bailey didn’t have to limply flail around in this thread?

Personally, I like Andrew Sullivan’s term: Tea Tantrums.

[sjc]

I remember watching John Waters’ “Pecker” on video about 10 years ago with my dad and a friend and after that we’d joke about “no teabagging” occasionally. Very few people would know what we meant. I’d say for the last 5 years or so this ceased to be the case. Not everyone knows what it means, and older more conservative people are less likely to know, but many many people do; enough, in my opinion, that it would be surprising if no one involved with the movement was aware that it had a sexual connotation.

Furthermore, I don’t see why you’d use the term teabagging at all unless it was a term you were already familiar with. It seems like an unwieldy neologism otherwise.

[Merijeek]

@sjc

Furthermore, I don’t see why you’d use the term teabagging at all unless it was a term you were already familiar with. It seems like an unwieldy neologism otherwise.

People are being repressed! Come to my website at http://MinorityInformationLiberationFront.org as soon as possible!

-Joe

[Harborwolf]

I for one welcome our newfound sexual liberations. From republicans teabagging to the Obamas and their fisting.

[elucidator]

@Equipoise

…They put brainwashing units in the converter boxes?? Holy shit! …

Got blueprints and specs for the di-lithium polarity reverser. Sneak into your parents house, attach it to the cable going into the box. It amplifies the brainwashing rays by ten, and reverses the polarity. So, your folks sit down to watch Glen Beck or Fox, a half hour later they call you to ask if you have any of those “Obama Is Lord!” t-shirts they can have.

[Equipoise]

Thanks for the tip! I don’t have any “Obama is Lord!” t-shirts though. All mine say “Obama is the Messiah!” on the front and “Re-education Camps for the Right!” on the back.

[Hamlet]

The newly created Institute for Marital Assurances that Boys Only Tie the knoT with the Opposite of Men will be pissed to hear about this.

[Beware_of_Doug]

@Random Beckhead via Equipoise

“In the early 50s our country was infiltrated by the communist party,” he says, calling the Obama administration the culmination of that infiltration.

No no no he’s got it all wrong. It was either the early 30s - the New Deal and all that - or the mid 1900s, about the time we got the Pure Food and Sherman Antitrust Acts.

Then again, I can understand the reluctance to tarnish the halo of St. Joseph of Appleton.

[Moirai]

@Justin_Bailey

A lot of people use the Internet, but the vast majority (including your average Republican anti-gay marriage doucebag) don’t hang on it the way we do.

With the number of closeted self-loathing fags they have in the membership? You must be joking.

Kind of.

[lawoot]

This thread reminded me of George Carlin’s “rant by an anti-pornography crusader”:

“Our thrust is to prick holes in the stiff front erected by the smut dealers. We must keep mounting an offensive to penetrate any crack in his defenses. Let’s get on him. Let’s ram through a stiff bail law so it will be hard for him to get it up. It’ll be hard on us, but we can’t lick it by being soft!”

[tdn]

As a person of good English ancestry, I object to the hijacking of tea to connote poofta activities.

Now, who’d like a banger in the mouth?

[elucidator]

Not sure there really are any “sexual” connotations. My son, the Err Apparent, was quite the fan of Halo 3 online, even after he got zapped and tea-bagged by a 12-year-old girl from Petaluma. Or maybe he was jelly-rolled…

[Jack_Batty]

@tdn

Now, who’d like a banger in the mouth?

Banger? I barely knew 'er!