CriticalBill wrote: wayne, you know as well as anyone that the tea party movement never described themselves as "teabaggers", this was a name started (I believe) by the brain dead Janeane Garafalo and the liberals thought it was funny and ran with it.
The teabagger name started with the tea baggers themselves, but I don't argue that the left ran with it.
Keith Olbermann said, “It is as useful to remind them anew of how the term originated and with whom. A TV news report aired last March 14 in which a correspondent described the original protest act, ‘take a teabag, put it in an envelope, and mail it to the White House.’ He added, ‘reteaparty.com has a headline Teabag the Fools in D.C. on tax day.’ Thus the verb to teabag was invented by the teabaggers themselves, and the correspondent who put it on TV was a Griff Jenkins of Fox News. Send your complaints to him.”
The teabaggers coined their own name, without realizing what it also means, and then they blamed their critics for their stupidity. Fox News helped spread the term before MSNBC got a hold of it, (
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/your-worl ... ea-baggers
) but as we know in the teabagger mind, Fox News can do no wrong, so it is a given that they won’t believe Olbermann, or me for that matter.
Where does it say they refered to themselves as tea baggers? I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure the verb "to tea bag" was around long before the Tea Party groups.
At rallies there were signs .. I remember one of an older woman with a sign with tea bags all over it that said "Teabagging For Jesus."
Tea Bag was around long before. The issue is tea party supports started using the tea bagging term without realizing what it meant... and then tried to blame the other side for use of the term.
LadyJazzer wrote: Yes, 65-80% is such a "limited number of people." Keep whistling past the graveyard, and jus' keep doin' what yer doin'....
It's a percentage not a number of people. All it takes is a sample of 4 out of 5 people to get 80 % . Duh. So where do you get the large number? I take it the poll censored a million or two people? That is a large number and likely to get close to reality.
Since I posted the article, I suggest you read the original post. I'm not going to repost it because you are lazy. It listed the constituencies and the numbers, and the article didn't say it was the number across the entire US population. So, have fun trying to stretch it to mean something it didn't say. But if I were teabagger, I think I'd start worrying about the perception and the sinking of the "movement"... (what an appropriate word...)
Wayn-O wrote: At rallies there were signs .. I remember one of an older woman with a sign with tea bags all over it that said "Teabagging For Jesus."
Tea Bag was around long before. The issue is tea party supports started using the tea bagging term without realizing what it meant... and then tried to blame the other side for use of the term.
I think this is a silly distraction but if there is an issue here it is not what I bolded above. It is the delight with which the left ran with it.
From the link you posted:
"Cooper responded, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.”
". 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.”
The original tea party organizers coined the phrase themselves, calling for "patriots" to send tea bags to the white house on April 15, 2009 under the banner "Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.". Then Fox News made it official when their reporter Griff Jenkins used it on national news on March 29, 2009, then Krauthammer used in in 9/2009, and Neil Cavuto used it in November 2009.
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert ... actually-i
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