# Tea Baggers everywhere.... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 27, 2010, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256 "2010-09-27T19:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/41 "2010-09-28T15:46:58Z")
> [@descamisado](#): > > I can smell the mold-encrusted spittle of apoplexy on your screen from over here… _Damn._ ---
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/42 "2010-09-28T15:50:37Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > [@asterion](#): > > > > Tell you what. Get the teabaggers and their enablers in the media to stop calling it the Democrat party, and then I’ll stop calling them teabaggers. > > Tell you what- how about you stop manufacturing offense over a missing suffix? Eh… offense over a missing suffix… offense over the older version of the movement’s name… yeah, ok, whatever… no big deal either way… ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/43 "2010-09-28T16:00:51Z")
Let them come up with some leadership who’s \*not \*on the Fox payroll and then we can talk. ---
**Author:** ![heatmiserfl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/df705f/32.png) [@heatmiserfl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/heatmiserfl)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/44 "2010-09-28T16:08:56Z")
For **Chessie** and those slow folks who agree with him. I’ll try one more explanation. You see, middle-aged white men who vote for socially conservative Repubs unwittingly use a term that conjures images of testicles dipping into their mouths as opposed to the manly patriot image they were hoping for. Picture middle-aged white man holding a moran sign and wearing a tricorner hat with a gay man (imagine him as the Village People version of Paul Revere) dangling his testicles into the white man’s mouth. Can you see it, now? Picture it again. Now do you see it? > [@Mr\_Smashy](#): > > > [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > > > It’s not. It’s childish. It’s like calling you a Democunt or a Dickocrat. It doesn’t make Democrats look stupid; just the speaker. > > Absolutely correct. > > For those who are interested in how it [started](http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=) > > > [@](#): > > > > The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it. > > > > … > > The liberal media, to use a convenient tag, went after the protesters with glee. Take Anderson Cooper, the acclaimed anchorman for CNN. He was interviewing David Gergen, the political pundit. And Gergen was saying that, after two very bad elections, conservatives and Republicans were “searching for their voice.” Cooper responded, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.” He said this with a smirk. > > > > MSNBC had an outright field day. Rachel Maddow and a guest of hers, Ana Marie Cox, made teabag jokes to each other for minutes on end: having great, chortling fun at the conservatives’ expense. And here is the performance of another host, David Shuster: > > > > “For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15, will be Tax Day, but . . . it’s going to be Teabagging Day for the right wing, and they’re going nuts for it. Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending.” > > > > Shuster went on to say that Fox News personalities were “looking forward to an up-close-and-personal taste of teabagging.” Etc., etc., etc. All the while, MSNBC was picturing Republican figures, and the following words were on the screen: “TEABAG MOUTHPIECES.” > > > > Ma and Pa America may not have been in on the joke, but plenty of other people were. On HBO, the lefty comedian Bill Maher commented, “When the year started, ‘teabagging’ was a phrase that referred to dangling one’s testicles in someone else’s face.” And the tea-party protesters “managed to turn it into something gross and ridiculous.” Tuh-dum. > > > > After Cooper and the others smirked about “teabagging,” the word went utterly mainstream — although you could say that, if Cooper used it, it started mainstream: because how much more mainstream can you get than a CNN anchor? On ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, E. J. Dionne, the liberal columnist, spoke of “a right-wing candidate supported by the teabaggers.” The host himself, Stephanopoulos, followed suit. On PBS’s NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, senior correspondent Gwen Ifill used “teabaggers” as well. At the New York Times, Paul Krugman used it in a column. Elsewhere, Roger Ebert used it in a movie review. And so on. I remember seeing several clips from Faux News using the term teabaggers. Maybe the clips were shown on the Daily Show or Colbert. That’s all I ever watch. Someone else remember this? Anyway, it wasn’t just liberals running with the term after a few conservatives were mentioning it. Fox and Friends etc. were also unwittingly using it. Good stuff! ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/45 "2010-09-28T16:17:27Z")
> [@pikey\_pete](#): > > I’m a member of a forum group called UER. We are all about urban exploration. Cool site, and usually good people. Imagine my frustration when I logged into their chat room only to discover Tea Party Truthers. Keep in mind that there is an organized movement to discredit the Tea Party by maliciously doing things like that, or going to TP rallies and waving racist signs, etc. The people doing that are probably not associated with the TP in any manner other than hating it. ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/46 "2010-09-28T16:22:06Z")
> [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > Tell you what- how about you stop manufacturing offense over a missing suffix? I know you’re a fucking moron, so I’ll explain it to you. It’s calling Democrats, the DemocRAT party. RAT, get it? This is what passes for clever when the average IQ in your party is around 90. From: [Democrats Unleash Ads Focusing on Rivals’ Pasts](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2596578/posts) > [@](#): > > GOP better climb in the RAT sewer and fight them using the same tactics of personal destruction. > > RATs and RINOs are dirty; expose it! > 36 posted on Sun Sep 26 2010 13:02:31 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time) by ExTexasRedhead (Take back our country on November 2, 2010. Let’s Roll!!!) ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/47 "2010-09-28T16:24:22Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > Yeah, it’s been awhile since Santorum’s been in the news. I thought I heard that name mentioned on Dan Savage’s podcast last week. Of course, I don’t think it was in relation to politics… ---
**Author:** ![Lobohan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobohan/32/79_2.png) [@Lobohan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobohan)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/48 "2010-09-28T16:33:08Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > I’m a member of a forum group called UER. We are all about urban exploration. Cool site, and usually good people. Imagine my frustration when I logged into their chat room only to discover Tea Party Truthers. > > Keep in mind that there is an organized movement to discredit the Tea Party by maliciously doing things like that, or going to TP rallies and waving racist signs, etc. The people doing that are probably not associated with the TP in any manner other than hating it. Just imagine, most tea-party worthies are as angry, stupid and ignorant as you are. Some of them are racist too. Is it that much of a stretch to imagine a racist person as uneducated and impotently-ragey as yourself carrying a sign like that? Not all tea-partiers are racist, but plenty are. For fuck sake, [this idiot](http://www.teaparty.org/) is the one with the [racist sign](http://washingtonindependent.com/73036/n-word-sign-dogs-would-be-tea-party-leader). ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/49 "2010-09-28T16:37:44Z")
Personally, I prefer" Tea Gaggers. ", brought to you by santorum. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/50 "2010-09-28T16:57:00Z")
> [@heatmiserfl](#): > > I remember seeing several clips from Faux News using the term teabaggers. Maybe the clips were shown on the Daily Show or Colbert. That’s all I ever watch. Someone else remember this? Anyway, it wasn’t just liberals running with the term after a few conservatives were mentioning it. **Fox and Friends etc. were also unwittingly using it.** Good stuff! You’ll never convince me that Steve Doocey wasn’t familiar with the term Tea Bagging … even before Obama was elected. ---
**Author:** ![Kevbo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e47774/32.png) [@Kevbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kevbo)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/51 "2010-09-28T17:21:11Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > Keep in mind that there is an organized movement to discredit the Tea Party by maliciously doing things like that,… Cite? Especially the “organized” part. And while your at it, how can we tell who the “real” tea party folks are? When was the last time someone was ejected from a tea party event for carrying a racist sign, or shouted down for racist comments? As far as I can tell they are all Scottsmen. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/52 "2010-09-28T17:30:27Z")
That would be like an organized movement to make shit stink. ---
**Author:** ![Damuri\_Ajashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/898d66/32.png) [@Damuri\_Ajashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damuri_Ajashi)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/53 "2010-09-28T17:49:32Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > ITs kinda too bad tighty righties suck at making up funny names for their political opponents, if they were any good at it, there would be more stuff to laugh at. Sadly, no. What have they got? P.J. O’Rourke and _Mallard Fillmore_. But all O’Rourke wants to talk about is how he used to smoke dope as a hippy but then he became a right-wing alcoholic, and he figures this is a step up. Huckabees pretty witty sometimes, but he’s crazy as a duck on acid. > > I’m not totally sure what a cramped and constipated sense of humor means, but I’m guessing its something pretty awful. Yeah, but Huckabee is definitely funny. As for teabagger/tea party. I think the teabaggers are more like the Tea Party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter and Dormouse. Nothing they do makes any sense but theya re very enthusiastic about doing it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/54 "2010-09-28T17:50:15Z")
So they’re not racist assholes, and all of the ones that are are _agents provocateurs_. Neat trick! _Teabagger! Teabagger! Teabagger! Three chip! Three Pepsi!_ ---
**Author:** ![George\_Kaplin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@George\_Kaplin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/George_Kaplin)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/55 "2010-09-28T17:56:57Z")
> [@Chessic Sense](#): > > It’s not. It’s childish. It’s like calling you a Democunt or a Dickocrat. It doesn’t make Democrats look stupid; just the speaker. The reason the term “Tea Baggers” is funny (or at least used to be, it’s a bit old now) is that the _tea partiers themselves_ were the ones that first started using it. You had these sweet little old ladies handing out tea bags at rallies, and huffy old men wearing crocodile dundee hats with teabags hanging off them instead of corks, and vendors selling little brass tea bag pins…and then someone let them in on the secret. That’s hilarious, no question 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/56 "2010-09-28T18:01:57Z")
I don’t understand why they ever got so sore about the name. Geez, it’s not like we call them teaba_gees_. Not that is something to get indignant about. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/57 "2010-09-28T19:01:43Z")
Well, if they want to distance themselves from all sexual innuendo, they could rename themselves “The Blow-Nothings”. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/58 "2010-09-28T20:17:16Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > Let them come up with some leadership who’s \*not \*on the Fox payroll and then we can talk. Well, there was the guy who setup the scam convention in Nashville. Or there was the guy (in Ohio?) who setup the little discount card scam for teabaggers. Do they count? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![sleeping](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/839c29/32.png) [@sleeping](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeping)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/59 "2010-09-28T20:45:30Z")
> [@Clothahump](#): > > > [@pikey\_pete](#): > > > > I’m a member of a forum group called UER. We are all about urban exploration. Cool site, and usually good people. Imagine my frustration when I logged into their chat room only to discover Tea Party Truthers. > > Keep in mind that there is an organized movement to discredit the Tea Party by maliciously doing things like that, or going to TP rallies and waving racist signs, etc. The people doing that are probably not associated with the TP in any manner other than hating it. Keep in mind that Obama is a Republican mole planted in 2006 to allow the GOP to make a comeback in 2010. ---
**Author:** ![pikey\_pete](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pikey\_pete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pikey_pete)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2010, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256/60 "2010-09-28T20:52:30Z")
i’d comment further, but its too hard to make a coherent statement while laughing one’s ass off. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tea-baggers-everywhere/555256.md?page=4)