Grover Norquist outraged at POTUS! Using "tea-bagger" is the "equivalent of using the 'n' word."

[jefferson_dem]

Goodness.

The term "tea-bagger" is like uttering the "n" word, some say. Though he aspires to promote civility, evidence has surfaced that President Obama has added "tea-bagger" to his public lexicon, though it's considered a cheap and tawdry insult by "tea party" activists. Watchdogs at Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) barked when they saw the proof, tucked in a sneak peak of Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter's new book, "The Promise: President Obama, Year One," to be released May 18. Indeed, it appears the president joined certain partisan critics and the liberal media, and took the tea-bag plunge.

"This remark is the equivalent of using the 'n' word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk. It is indefensible to use this word. The president knows what it means, and his people know what it means. The public thought we reached a new low of incivility during the Clinton administration. Well, the Obama administration has just outdone them," ATR president Grover Norquist tells Inside the Beltway.

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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/may/05/strong-brew/

[SemiCharmedQuark]

1. LOL. What a dumbshit.

[dchill]

2. "It is indefensible to use this word."

It is indefensible to be a tea-bagger, Grover.

[napi21]

3. YS Grover. They were the first ones to use the wor...until some found out it's real urban meaning!

[Lasher]

6. That's right, teabaggers came up with this name for themselves.

Now they can wear it.

[jefferson_dem]

7. Yes, they did.

Check out this fool - http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/001139/

[ShockediSay]

15. Him and the rest of those HAVES, have not any desire to

pay their fair share of taxes to support this nation.

They don't want big government.

So who's supposed to protect us from hurricane ravages?

From oil spills?

From terrorists?

From the financial rapists of Wall Street and the aftermath
{including the Bernie Madoffs}?

OR do they just want to rip off whatever they can get away
with, and not worry about a government OF THE PEOPLE catching
up with them?

[Arkansas Granny]

35. And they wore those stylish hats to reinforce the message.

[bluestateguy]

4. When they stop with the "Democrat Party" slurs, I'll consider calling them the proper name

nt

[Pirate Smile]

8. I like that.

:)

[otohara]

34. My Thoughts Exactly

:kick:

[Maccagirl]

5. Still trying to be relevent eh Grover?

Haven't you done enough damage? I know you're still angry about your name-but really...the projection has got to stop before you run out of your meds again.

[Thrill]

9. Leave it to the Washington Times to post this dumb shit from him

[Jennicut]

10. Didn't they use the teabag phrase themselves first, though? And had to be told what it meant?

I mean, stupidity cannot be excused.

[jillan]

13. bwahahahaha - what a bunch of looneytunes!

[LiberalFighter]

16. I guess they didn't expect to get tea bagged.

[cliffordu]

11. Yet another NEOCON who acts like he has tertiary syphillis.

[BrklynLiberal]

18. hmmmmmmm Perhaps you have discovered something here.....

[Alcibiades]

32. He's not a neocon

The original neocons were anticommunist Democrats, most of whom subsequently left the party for the Republicans. Their main project is to endorse a perpetual cold war era militarism: many are also staunchly pro-Israel.

Norquist was never a Democrat, having worked for the Nixon campaign in 1968. Though Norquist is certainly as bellicose and militaristic as the neocons, he's mainly characterized by an insane variety of libertarianism.

[ClarkUSA]

12. Only a lily white Republican or PUMA could come up with such a WTF brain fart like this.

I wonder if Jane Hamster is going to high-five her buddy Grover with a supportive column tomorrow. After all, didn't she make make an appeal to teabaggers on Faux News a short while back?

[Cha]

14. Sorry, bathtub guy..teabaggers are

stuck with..well, teabaggers.

[LiberalFighter]

17. Labeling all tea baggers as middle class? I seriously doubt that.

The only common bond they all have is that they are idiots.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. Grover who?

[BrklynLiberal]

20. A vital video that Bathtub guy obviously never saw...

ROTFLMAO!!!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/teabag-party-mix-up-video_n_185058.html

More info..
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/a-teabagger-timeline-koch_b_187312.html

http://realworldpolitics.blogspot.com/2010/01/who-first-used-term-teabagger.html

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/to-teabag-or-not-thats-still-the-question-for-conservatives.php

http://almoderate.com/2009/12/14/who-used-the-term-first/

[xxqqqzme]

21. Hey grover

you government hating anarchist.

Bite me!

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It's their choice, they own it. Framing bites you in the ass some times.

[Malikshah]

22. Sane, reasonable people outraged that Norquist still walks among us as

opposed to being exiled to a used outhouse receptacle.

To quote the Stones....You can't always get what you want....

[troubledamerican]

23. Grover Norquist uses "Democrat Party" instead of "Democratic Party"

Expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk.

[MadMaddie]

24. They picked their own name! They have to live with it!!

[WhiteTara]

25. someone needs to drown him

in a bathtub.

[SeattleGirl]

26. That is so beyond stupid, I cannot even comprehend it.

Calling people who wear tea bags hanging from their hats "teabaggers" is speaking a truth.

Calling people of color the "n" word is hateful and disgusting, and anything BUT the truth.

The two aren't even remotely the same.

[verges]

31. One chooses to follow the tea party.

One doesn't choose to be African-American.

[Zoeisright]

27. Uh huh. Get back to me after teabaggers have suffered centures of oppression

and slavery, GROVER.

[political_Dem]

28. Funny they didn't feel this way when one of those "teabaggers" called Rep. Lewis the n-word.

They also insulted and attacked Congresspersons Frank and Cleaver while members of the group paraded around in teabags. None of those seditionists were ashamed when they called certain Congressional offices with death threats after the passage of the HCR. They cheered the awful legislation in Arizona.


So cry me a river. They can go to hell with their "cries of oppression".

[Brewman_Jax]

29. Teabagger and GOP SOP

not to mention the hubris. There's a big difference between having your feelings hurt and having your rights, chances, and opportunities limited because you have the wrong skin color. To compare oneself with a disadvanged demographic group that you wouldn't want for neighbors is the height of teabagger hyperbole. :eyes:

The rules and civility are for OTHER people, not for you, eh, Grover? You're a teabagger, get over it. You don't like it, don't be a teabagger.

[southernyankeebelle]

30. I think he protests way to much. This guy never voted for a democrat and last time I checked the

president does have a right to say what he wanted.

[ljm2002]

33. It was their original name, they themselves coined it...

...and furthermore, people still show up at their rallies with teabags stapled to their silly hats.

So stuff it where the sun don't shine, Teabaggers!

[dionysus]

36. well, fuck you very much grover. who the hell other than a friggin muppet is named grover nowadays

anyway?

[mitchum]

37. Double hypocrisy coming from that longtime teabagger Norquist