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Title: NRO Admits Conservatives Coined ‘Teabagger’
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RAW STORY
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0507/nro-admmits-wing-coined-teabaggers/
Published: May 7, 2010
Author: David Edwards
Post Date: 2010-05-07 11:53:01 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 4566
Comments: 19
Conservatives are up in arms because a new book revealed that President Barack Obama once referred to Tea Party protesters as "teabaggers." But one publication on the far right has revealed that conservatives actually coined the term.
ABC News' Jake Tapper reported:
In Jonathan Alter’s "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," President Obama is quoted in an November 30, 2009, interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills "set the tenor for the whole year ... That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans."
Tea Party activists loathe the term "tea baggers," which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.
Writing for the Hot Air blog, Allahpundit questioned why Obama has yet to use the term publicly if he is truly unaware of its sexual connotation.
Doubtless the defense here will be that The One wasn’t aware of the sexual connotation and therefore had no idea that the term offends tea partiers. Funny thing, though: Offhand, I can’t recall a single instance of him saying “teabaggers” publicly. Not in speeches, not in interviews, not at town halls, not even at that fundraiser a few weeks ago when he goofed on protesters by saying they should be thanking him for cutting their taxes, i.e. for running up gigantic deficits. If he doesn’t know the term’s impolitic, how come he hasn’t innocently used it on camera yet?
It's true that liberals like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have adopted the term as an epithet but National Review Online finds that the word was actually coined by conservatives.
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.
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann notes that this fact hasn't stopped right wingers from blasting Obama for using the term. "But this reference has not led the group to, you know, swallow their tongues about their incessantly phony outrage over the term. It`s led a T.P. supporter Melissa Couthier to describe the president as a flaming hypocrite. And just in case anybody missed the point, to illustrate her web post with an animated version of the act from which the tea baggers drew their nickname. Way to show the president what decorum looks like," said Olbermann.
This video is from MSNBC's Countdown, broadcast May 6, 2010.
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Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#2. To: go65 (#1)
They were never talking about the disgusting sexual act Olberman, Maddow and the rest of the leftwingers mean.
The irony with these ongoing attacks on the Tea Party movement is each none adds the the determination of its membership to show up in November and vote. And it also makes it more likely which each passing slur hurled at them they will vote for those that take them seriously, and at the very least are polite.
It ain't the Democrats benefitting from it come November.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
#3. To: Badeye (#2) (Edited)
Given your party's penchant for closeted behavior how can you be sure?
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#4. To: war (#3)
Given your party's penchant for closeted behavior how can you be sure?
My party's?????
Larry Craig ring a bell?
Which party spent $2k at a lesbian strip joint?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#5. To: Badeye (#2)
The irony with these ongoing attacks on the Tea Party movement is each none adds the the determination of its membership to show up in November and vote. And it also makes it more likely which each passing slur hurled at them they will vote for those that take them seriously, and at the very least are polite.
Are you oblivious to the fact that tea party candidates lost across the board in this week's primaries and that even Sarah Palin is no longer endorsing the tea party?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#6. To: go65 (#5)
No, I'm not surprised in the least a grass roots attempt at running third party candidates within the GOP lost in the primaries. And I didn't know Palin was 'endorsing' the TP as a 'political party', let alone she 'stopped'.
Are you oblivious to the fact the Democrats lose these millions of voters, many of whom voted for Obama, they get their asses kicked not just in November, but in the 2012 race as well?
The political strategy of attacking these people by denigrating them in the vilest possible terms is DUMB POLITICS.
Especially given the current Majority Party at the Federal Level is in such deep trouble politically.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
#7. To: go65 (#4)
That post was directed to Boofer...
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#8. To: Badeye (#6)
You've got to be wearing out the inside heel of those Ruby Slippers, Boof.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#9. To: Badeye (#6)
Are you oblivious to the fact the Democrats lose these millions of voters, many of whom voted for Obama, they get their asses kicked not just in November, but in the 2012 race as well?
You know, I remember Rush Limabaugh with his "Clinton Countdown Calendar" during Clinton's first term, counting down the days until the 1996 election.
How'd that turn out?
Oh, and happy reading:
Rasmussen Reports:
The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in the state, taken Wednesday, finds Kasich again with 46% support and Strickland with 45%. Three percent (3%) of Ohio voters favor some other candidate, and six percent (6%) remain undecided.
Until last month, Kasich had led Strickland by anywhere from six to 11 points in surveys stretching back to December
Chuckle.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#10. To: war (#7)
That post was directed to Boofer...
sorry about that.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#11. To: go65 (#10)
No worries...figured you missed it...
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#12. To: go65 (#9)
I still don't care about an era two President's ago, from the last century, GO65. Talk to my anti groupie, he loves talking about Clinton's cock to this day, I'm sure, on that topic.
So, the challenger is still leading here in Ohio? Hadn't bothered with it, thanks for the update.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
#13. To: Badeye (#12)
I still don't care about an era two President's ago, from the last century, GO65. Talk to my anti groupie, he loves talking about Clinton's cock to this day, I'm sure, on that topic.
Sorry, you can discuss that kind of stuff with someone else, I'll stick to politics.
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#14. To: go65 (#13)
I'm not the one bringing up the Impeached One, from 14 years ago, as a means of distracting from the current era disaster that is the Owe-bama Administration and the Democrat controlled House and Senate.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
#15. To: Boofer, go65 (#12) (Edited)
"I made money under Clinton!!!"
--anonymous
(snicker)
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#16. To: Badeye (#14) (Edited)
the current era disaster that is the Owe-bama Administration and the Democrat controlled House and Senate.
Disaster, huh?
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#17. To: go65 (#16)
9.9 official unemployment.
17.4 under employed.
New record for foodstamp participation.
360,000 foreclosures per month.
Being a liberal Democrat means you are required to ignore reality, as you keep demonstrating on this thread.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
#18. To: Badeye (#17)
17.4 under employed.New record for foodstamp participation.
360,000 foreclosures per month.
cleaning up one Bush mess at a time.....
Being a Republican means you get to choose your own reality.
#19. To: go65 (#18)
I sure hope your side keeps that one up, cause its not working. It just makes Owe-bama look smaller every time he 'goes there'.
I can see NOVEMBER from my House....
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