Rachel Maddow Tells You All About Teabagging

[Ian David]

Run time: 06:59 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsKt4O4Yw8   Posted on YouTube: April 10, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: April 10, 2009 By DU Member: Ian David Views on DU: 2021

 
Rachel Maddow Tells You All About Teabagging

So, people upset with the raising of taxes from 36% to 39% (letting the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans expire and resetting the rate to the Clinton years) are taking to the streets on April 15, 2009, the day federal income taxes are due. (Or maybe they're upset about the Wall Street bailouts. Or maybe it's the stimulus package. It's all so inchoate. But the problem definitely isn't the money we've spent in the past 7 years on the Iraq war. Different protest, different people.)

Never mind that government revenue from the lapsed Bush tax cuts would fund the White House's health care reform, thereby increasing the safety net for more Americans in a time when we're all wondering just how strong our own individual safey nets are.

Instead, conservatives who didn't get any headway in Congress saying that tax cuts could get us out of a recession are now merging their tax-centric views with populist ire over executive pay, etc, and calling for a National Tea Party. It's an event ginned up by reluctant right wingers who now are distancing themselves from the event, and flogged by Faux Fox media and now hawked by many old white elected dudes in the Republican party (except for the African American guy who's supposedly GOP party head). Remember, if you can't win elections, actually govern or offer real alternatives to governing (numberless Republican campaign platform alternative budget here), you CAN be elected king of corporate media!

Apparently, people have been snail mailing tea bags to the White House, effectively "teabagging" them. I wonder how many participants will actually be affected by the tax "hike" on the wealthiest Americans?

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[stlsaxman]

1. That is SO "OnionNewsNetwork" that even ONN has never been THAT ONN...

Anna-Marie Cox is hard to beat here... barely cracking a smile.

[cap]

2. Teabagging Day: Please don't tax our rich people!

Never mind that our taxes aren't going up....Just please don't tax our rich people!

[bahrbearian]

3. That was funny.

[Richd506]

4. What's even funnier is that the Republicans don't seem to get the joke

[AlbertCat]

11. But they know all about the perils of Gay Marriage!

Sexually, the GOP is like a frightened nun....except in their personal behavior. So they only ACT like a frightened nun in public.

Fools. Hypocrites.

[cboy4]

5. The fact is people have been teabagging for a long time and

will probably continue to do so. :rofl:

[MNLeftie]

6. Props to Ana Marie...

She did the whole thing without cracking up!

I do believe that the Rethugs don't get the joke. Is it possible they're so conservative that the term "teabagging" in it's, shall we say, pornographic sense, is beyond their ken? Methinks.

[cooolandrew]

7. As long as their malarky is legal, peaceful and democratic I'm fine with it. It's the>

peaceful process of government soldiers sacrifice for. That is a point that should be hammered home at every opportunity. Even Bush did mention this is the hallmark of Democratic society.

[Richd506]

8. This seems like something South Park would do

[targetpractice]

10. Reminds me of the SNL sketch with Alec Baldwin...

...talking about his "Schweddy Balls" with Molly Shannon and Anna Gastayer.

[20score]

9. That was funny!

[spiritual_gunfighter]

12. Hilarious television

Rethugs are clueless as usual.

[Carni]

13. Watched this last night HILARIOUS!

LOL'd all the way through her segment!

[tinrobot]

14. "If he is being teabagged while doing so, the message will be a bit muffled"

Brilliant line...

[Mr. Mojo Risin]

15. With all due respect

What could Rachael possibly know about teabagging?

sorry couldn't resist

[DuaneBidoux]

19. With all due respect how could you or anyone else know?

[valerief]

16. The republicants won't let Michael "Black Pekoe" Steele speak on Teabagging Day?

Someone should tannin their hides!

On another note, why do republicants have to "dirty up" everything sexual? Now they've ruined the act of teabagging.

[urbuddha]

18. ***

I can only hope that these right-wing nut jobs learn to teabag in the appropriate way as documented by John Waters. They could even find out on Wikipedia for Chuck's sake.

[Tutankhamun]

17. Definitely my favorite Rachel Maddow Show segment so far!