Rightbloggers: Don't You Dare Laugh At Our Teabagging!

[Stephanie]

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2009/04/last_weekend_th.php#more

Rightbloggers: Don't You Dare Laugh At Our Teabagging!
By Roy Edroso
Monday, Apr. 20 2009 @ 12:08AM

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Meantime the tea parties themselves remain blog fodder, and though pleased with the high turnout, rightbloggers sought to ensure that nothing distracted from their achievement. So when they found some people laughing at them, they insisted, loudly, that there they weren't funny -- which, as often happens in such cases, made them funnier still.

Several unsympathetic sources had some fun with the "teabagging" nomenclature adopted by the movement in its early days. Though http://obambi.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/tea-bag-obama/">there is an http://patriotroom.com/article/in-time-for-national-tea-party-day-patriot-room-buttons-are-here-">obvious http://www.zazzle.co.uk/tea_bag_obama_mug-168863860633021272">trail of participants using the unfortunately ambiguous term -- even the impeccably right-wing Atlas Shrugged proudly referred to her compatriots as "Teabag Patriots" -- they rose as one to denounce the inappropriate laughter at themselves.

Some affected shock at the term's sexual definition. "As decency prevents a clinical explanation of the term," sniffed NewsBusters, "curious readers not in the know should check the Urban Dictionary with an objectionable content forewarning." Try not to gag! Fox News was surprisingly more upfront: "Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house," they told no doubt astonished readers, "refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth."

"'Teabagging' -- a sex act," marveled the heretofore enthusiastic teabagger Atlas Shrugged. "You learn something new from the leftwing media everyday." But she proved a quick study. "To understand tea-bagging," she told her readers, "imagine the dunking motion of a tea bag when making tea. Now instead of a cup, picture someone's mouth, and instead of a tea bag, picture testicles." The internet is a wonderful medium for sharing information, or for oversharing it.

These worthies remained neutral on the value of teabagging, non-protest style, but RedState's http://www.redstate.com/warner_todd_huston/2009/04/16/the-left-and-teabagging/">Warner Todd Huston was disapproving, calling the practice "immoral, immature and perverted," in contrast to the moral, mature and wholesome sex acts performed by conservatives.

That liberals even think of that teabagging, Huston declared, showed just how corrupt they are. "As it happens, when talking to an engaged, informed, and patriotic American," he explained, "when a tea party is discussed the images of Boston Harbor, taxes and American history immediately come to mind." If you are reminded instead of little girls serving imaginary hot beverages to their dolls, apparently you come up short patriot-wise, but are still better than those sexed-up liberals, for whom "no thought of America can be found. But sexual perversions are aplenty."

The Next Right decried humor itself as a socialist ruse. They quoted "Rule number 5 of Saul Alinsky's 1971 Rules for Radicals... 'Ridicule is man's most potent weapon. It's hard to counterattack ridicule, and it infuriates the opposition, which then reacts to your advantage.'" Then they got infuriated and reacted to their opponents' advantage.

"They are retreating to ridicule because it is a strategy of desperation," sputtered Next Right, and insisted it wouldn't work: "People are coalescing around real principles again. And when you get down to people's fundamental believes, ridicule won't get you very far. It's like trying to attack someone's religion." If you find the idea of a teabagging religion funny, of course, you are double-Alinskyite, and the Next Right may have to come back and yell at you some more.

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To quell the laughter, some went to extremes. Warner Todd Huston returned to consider the post-tea-party path of patriots. "It may seem ominous, but violence is sometimes acceptable depending on the cause," he said.

"Of course we should avoid violence during these protests today," he added. "I am for sure not advocating a resort to violence. But if elections and the democratic process fail to impress government officials against their habits where does that leave future protests?... Government officials also must take heed before their arrogance leads us all down that road that we do not want to travel."

Five months after Obama's election, Huston is already looking ahead to a time when "elections and the democratic process fail to impress government officials" and thinking about the role violence might play.

Well, that's one way to stop people from laughing at him. But he may not be pleased at the reaction he gets instead.

[Stephanie]

1. Title of the Next Right article: "Socialism, Scrota and Tea Party Ridicule"

:rofl:

[roguevalley]

20. they are for violence as long as they aren't in the front lines

[cliffordu]

2. Oops. Wait till they find out

about the Cleveland Steamer.

[NYC_SKP]

3. OMG, You mean teabagging isn't about bags? Filled with tea? Like tea bags?

eeeeewwwwwwwww!!!!

:puke:

:puke:

:puke:

[Stephanie]

4. The things you learn from the wingnut blogs!

And to think you might never have known...

[SoCalDem]

11. Grandpa Lipton's rolling in his grave

[BlooInBloo]

5. "try not to gag!" - BWAHAHAAHAHAAAA!!!!

[Beartracks]

6. Do these people listen to themselves?

> "I am for sure not advocating a resort to violence. But if elections and the democratic process fail to impress government officials against their habits where does that leave future protests?... Government officials also must take heed before their arrogance leads us all down that road that we do not want to travel."

First of all, it seems to me that the hint of violence is not something that government of, by, and for the people should ignore.

Second: Arrogance? Really? Irony alert! :rofl:

[madrchsod]

7. tea bags were not invented untill the early 1900`s

another right wing failure

[zbdent]

8. "Ridicule is man's most potent weapon." ... I guess that the ReRushlicans

have never, ever, EVER used ridicule when referring to lefties ...

[Chulanowa]

10. Never successfully

We're talking people who think that South Park is the pinnacle of satire, after all. If they knew how to properly use the tools of ridicule, they might achieve something. But then they'd have to find something capable of being ridiculed, which has been their main problem. Left-wing positions are hard to mock successfully. All the ones that are easy to mock are already being ridiculed by the left.

[and-justice-for-all]

9. too late, I just did!!!!!!

"Don't You Dare Laugh At Our Teabagging!":rofl: :spray::rofl: :spray::rofl: :spray::rofl: :spray:

[SpiralHawk]

12. Teabagging Vs. Diaper Sex with Hookers

Oh, wait, excuse me.

I forgot that this thread is about Republicon Homelanders, so there is no x vs. x -- Homelanders are into both.

[TexasObserver]

13. I think the wingers need a 12 step program to wean themselves from Teabagging.

First, they have to admit that they're powerless, that they are addicted to being punchlines.

[Democrat 4 Ever]

14. I have visions of all those upright, uptight Conservative husbands

finally figuring out what the heck he has been advocating in their protests and the teabagging. Something new and exciting to use with the diapers, toe taps and such. I'm thinking there are going to be a lot of upright, uptight wives learning first hand the definition and the performance of such act in order to please the man of the house. Boy are they in for a surprise!

Dear husband wants to try teabagging so wifey poo come to bed with hot water and lemon and ends up thinking you want to put what(!?!) in my mouth!?! Of course, if the upright and uptight womenfolk won't play along there will be a definite uptick in action in the female service industry in a red state near you.

There is nothing more frustrated than a reichwing wingnut - you just know they are going to have to try it. My kingdom for a camera.

[Are_grits_groceries]

15. "Life, Liberty, and the Right to Mockery!" nt

[Heidi]

16. We're corrupt for pointing out the obvious?

It seems to me that they're clueless for promoting what is essentially a branded concept without fully vetting it. Good Lord, it would have been so easy for them to check this out before settling on this concept for their little protest: go to Google, type in "teabagging" or even "teabag" and clique "image search."

It's extremely difficult for me to feel any sympathy for those who decided to promote their protest involving tea bags.

[peekaloo]

17. the irony deficient

they are twice as patriotic as libruls which explains the doubling and tripling of attendance figures.

p.s. I'm still larfing from the event I witnessed and the mangling of the National Anthem. I did not know the second stanza ends with something that "was still steaming" followed by a hodge podge of words to some song I didn't recognize. Ooooh, it might have been code. :think:

[santamargarita]

18. I like this from Crooks and Liars

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. I love that "Rules for Radicals" takes on the heft of a Protocols of the Elders of Zion

As if people on the left are sitting there studying a damn near 40 year old text by Saul Alinsky and using it as some kind of game plan!

:rofl:

Like anybody needed a book to tell them that if the name of a movement can also be read as the name of a sexual act, people will make fun of it by referring to the sexual act. If you went into a room with 20 people - politically unaligned - and said "These are the teabag patriots," 15 people would break out laughing. It's called focus testing, you right wing dunces! You don't need obvious declarations from Saul Alinsky to get that.

What's next, the Reach Around Brigade?

[gratuitous]

21. The Reach Around Brigade sounds a worthy successor

But I think these folks are irritated. And just as internal irritation causes an oyster to produce a pearl, so too will the current irritation of yesterday's tea-baggers bring forth tomorrow successor movement. Not content with just one pearl, they will produce a string of pearls, enough pearls that, in the words of esteemed vaporbrain Glenn Beck ("The extra n is for knowledge!"), they will surround us. I propose they call their next get-together the Pearl Necklace.

Hee, hee, hee.