# Teabaggers **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 17, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321 "2010-01-17T15:46:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/1 "2010-01-17T15:46:14Z")
I’m so sick and tired of hearing that term applied to good people. I just hear Katherine Vandensnatch utter it twice in 15 minutes on ABC… she actually stumbled in her first attempt and had to try again. Barney Frank is an ass-reamer! Rachel Maddow and Big Sis are carpet munchers! There … I feel alot better. Correction… three times… what a cunt! ---
**Author:** ![mswas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e99b99/32.png) [@mswas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mswas)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/2 "2010-01-17T15:57:06Z")
Yes, Rachel Maddow is definitely a carpet muncher. 😉 Though I would like some visual evidence. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/3 "2010-01-17T16:02:37Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Yes, Rachel Maddow is definitely a carpet muncher. 😉 Though I would like some visual evidence. Me too … as long as it isn’t with Big Sis. ---
**Author:** ![kingbighair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kingbighair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingbighair)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/4 "2010-01-17T16:02:41Z")
Teabagger is clever. It is appropriate because these idiots murk up the political waters in a bitter way just by being in them. Your little retorts are pathetic. The [teabaggers](http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=) started it anyway. They were just too unhip to know what it meant. Teabagger. ---
**Author:** ![tacoloco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tacoloco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tacoloco)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/5 "2010-01-17T16:07:21Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > I’m so sick and tired of hearing that term applied to good people. > > I just hear Katherine Vandensnatch utter it twice in 15 minutes on ABC… she actually stumbled in her first attempt and had to try again. > > Barney Frank is an ass-reamer! > > Rachel Maddow and Big Sis are carpet munchers! > > There … I feel alot better. > > Correction… three times… what a cunt! Perhaps you and your tebagger buddies can go in for more impotent protests complete with “Obama is a Socialist” and “Get A Brain, Moran” signs. We Are Teabaggers Proud And True And We Will Shake Our (tiny impotent) Fists At You! BTW: “ass reamer” and “carpet muncher”? What are you 12?. ---
**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:** [January 17, 2010, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/6 "2010-01-17T16:09:37Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > hearing that term applied to good people There’s your problem. Teabaggers are in general uninformed simpletons. Any smart Teabaggers are there because they would rather side with morons than have no support for their ideology. ---
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/7 "2010-01-17T16:13:17Z")
> [@tacoloco](#): > > BTW: “ass reamer” and “carpet muncher”? What are you 12?. How bout helping me add to my vocabularly, please. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/8 "2010-01-17T16:21:25Z")
How is “teabagger” analogous to homophobic slurs? ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/9 "2010-01-17T16:23:25Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > How bout helping me add to my vocabularly, please. Well, I prefer the term butt pirate myself. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/10 "2010-01-17T16:29:35Z")
I noticed the television news people in the last week have been completely not using the term no matter what the guests have used and are saying tea party. I’ve watched them pause for a second where they almost say teabagger and then say tea party. The period of smirking at the clueless person referring to themselves as teabagger is coming to an end I fear. Even the dense people are realizing it’s a sexual term. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/11 "2010-01-17T16:58:22Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > Yes, Rachel Maddow is definitely a carpet muncher. 😉 Though I would like some visual evidence. Best I could do on [short notice](http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/7775/rachrug.jpg) (and with minimal skills). ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/12 "2010-01-17T17:20:18Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > I’m so sick and tired of hearing that term applied to good people. You are delusional, this never happens. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/13 "2010-01-17T17:27:04Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > I noticed the television news people in the last week have been completely not using the term no matter what the guests have used and are saying tea party. I’ve watched them pause for a second where they almost say teabagger and then say tea party. I was listening to The Political Junkie this week on NPR and the banter went something like this: Guest: yada, yada, yada, Teabaggers Host: Tea Party Guest: What did I say? Host: [slight pause] Something else. > [@](#): > > The period of smirking at the clueless person referring to themselves as teabagger is coming to an end I fear. Even the dense people are realizing it’s a sexual term. Well, according to kingbighair’s link, one of those “dense people” was none other than NPR’s Gwen Ifil. > [@](#): > > Of course, some people use “teabagger” in innocence — unaware of any vulgar connotation. One such person is, or was, Gwen Ifill. Some of her NewsHour viewers wrote to complain. And Ifill later said, “Turns out I am the only person with access to email who never knew this was a term with a sexual meaning. I used it in an offhand manner as a shorthand referring to the ‘tea party’ movement. It was a slip I was unaware of, and I regret it.” The idea that it’s only the uneducated rednecks who are “clueless” is a stretch. (I know you didn’t put that in your post, but others have in other threads.) ---
**Author:** ![DanBlather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f4b2a3/32.png) [@DanBlather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DanBlather)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/14 "2010-01-17T17:27:48Z")
I agree with the OP. The fact that Frank and Maddow are gay means that the teapartyists have a valid point. I’m sure any day now they will be able to coherently explain it. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/15 "2010-01-17T17:29:28Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Well, I prefer the term butt pirate myself. Or pillow biter. I heard them both on Howard Stern ages ago. ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/16 "2010-01-17T17:47:49Z")
The OP is making what we in the trade call a “bad analogy”. Even if we disregard who use the term “teabaggers” first, that term is out there in common use to label that movement. Additionally, they used teabags in their protest, and it’s therefore not a stretch to refer to them by that moniker. “Ass-reamer” is pulling a term out of thin air to refer to a gay Congresscritter to specifically make fun of his sexuality. There are much worse abuses on this MB where derogatory language is used without comment to demonize the opposition. And I’d be the first to say it is those on the left who are the bigger offenders in this area. So, the OP would be better off focusing on more defensible complaints and let this one go. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/17 "2010-01-17T18:11:20Z")
In the interest of eradicating ignorance and all that, who the fuck is ‘Big Sis’? And in the interest of building bridges with those of other political persuasions, I hereby promise never to use the term ‘teabagger’ to describe the current crop of right-wing protesters. I reserve the right, however, to continue to use the term ‘morons’ as the situation warrants. ---
**Author:** ![FinnAgain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finnagain/32/12500_2.png) [@FinnAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinnAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/18 "2010-01-17T18:13:20Z")
When I was at college the local college-rag had ‘man on the street’ section. Over parents’ weekend, my folks were visiting and happened to pick up the paper, and the man on the street section asked a number of students what courses they thought should be added. One of them said “teabagging”. My mother (a hip, ex-hippie non-profit executive director) didn’t understand and wanted me to explain. I refused. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/19 "2010-01-17T18:24:51Z")
_Lets all get up and dance to a song that was a hit before Your mother was born. Though she was born a long, long time ago Your mother should know Your mother should know…_ (some obscure English band…) ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2010, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321/20 "2010-01-17T18:25:19Z")
> [@What\_the](#): > > How bout helping me add to my vocabularly, please. Rumpian and Muffian? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/teabaggers/525321.md?page=2)