Holy Crap. CNN has never made me laugh so hard.

Cafe Society
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So I’m watching CNN this morning. I believe the show is called “State of the Nation” or something like that.

It’s basically a comentary show where the host has a group of panelist on and they all talk about current events

Well, this show happened to have three ladies on there. The host was male.

So anyway, they get to this one news bit where in Glenn Beck calls Racheal Maddow a “Tea Bagging Queen”.

So the host asks the ladies what they thought of that.

The first lady chimes in and says “Tea bagging Queen? What does that even mean? :dubious:”

Then the second lady chimes in “Well I thinks it’s a reference to the (Boston, I assume) Tea party”

They went on to say something about she’s a taxe dodger or something. To be honest I don’t know what the hell else they were saying after that because I was laughing too hard.

How the heck could ALL THREE of these ladies including the host NOT know what a tea bag is?

I hope The Daily show catches this.

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Glenn Beck? The guy who apparently believes that the DOT’s ‘cash for clunkers’ web site is some sort of scheme to allow the government free access to all the data on your computer?

Didn’t see it, but seems to me the only way that remark by Beck would make a lick of sense would be if Maddow were a male.

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Lou Dobbs made the original statement.

This is Maddow’s response.

I think she knows what a “tea bagging queen” is, but was not about to admit to it so she could use that phrase on CNN.

SSG Schwartz

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Wait, Lesbians can tea-bag?

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They just need to borrow the appropriate body part. < Snip > and they’re ready to tea bag with the best of them.

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Ah, that suggests why Lou Dobbs is so angry at Maddow’s tea-bagging then.

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Yeah, we have special strap-ons for that :rolleyes:.
What an ass.

(Dobbs.)

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I dunno, I’m pretty sure this is the funniest thing that’s ever happened on CNN. (Also teabagging-related.)

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If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t know what “teabagging” was, until the term was used during the tea party protests and people were making fun of the protesters for using it. Not everybody’s familiar with all slang, especially not sexual slang.

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Ok, I don’t understand where Glann Beck fits into this.

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Erm, cough, can I jump in here to ask what tea-bagging is?

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Urban Dictionary. NSFW

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I don’t know if any news quotation can top MSNBC’s startling revelation that Michael Jackson can only die once.

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That’s my fault. In the show, they went from talking about Glenn Beck to Lou Dobbs seamlessly. I just got the names confused.

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Well, I’ve seen the string on at least a couple of occasions, so apparently so.

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Borrow those plastic ones from a truck.

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I look forward to seeing this on the Daily Show tonight. CNN’s stupid viewer comment tickets are also good for a laugh now and then, and I just saw the following from ‘Talk to Rick:’

“Worried about taxes? It’s Shark Week! The only tax I’m worried about is Shark-a-tax!!!”

If CNN didn’t encourage viewer feedback, I’d have no way to gauge the pulse of the country on this critical issue.

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I’m a fifty-two-year-old woman, and I never heard the term until I came across it on this board a year or so back. I think it is safe to say that not everyone in the country has heard or knows the slang definition.

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And in 50 years Cecils successor can write a column about it much like his In like Flynn column.

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The thing is, whether you know the slang definition or not, it still doesn’t make any sense to disparagingly call a woman a “tea-bagging queen”. If you’re not familiar with the slang meaning, then it makes no more sense than, say, “coffee-grinding duchess”, and if you are familiar with it, then it should be clear that it’s not something done by women. All I can figure is that Dobbs had heard somewhere that it had a sexual meaning, but that he didn’t actually know what that meaning was.