boo-FUCKIN'-hoo: Monica Crowley wants Obama apology AND reconciliatory speech RE: TeabaggerGate

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Enough with the whining! 'Teabaggers' actually introduced the term they now claim is a slur
By David Neiwert Thursday May 06, 2010 8:00am

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/enough-whining-teabaggers-actually-i



"GRRRRR."

:rofl:

There's nothing quite like those moments on Fox when Megyn Kelly and Monica Crowley share the set, because nobody kvetches louder than these two. Yesterday they had a special segment where they whined about President Obama reportedly referring offhandedly to the Tea Party movement as "teabaggers."

The whole segment, as usual, was rife with disinformation. Crowley tries to characterize the DHS bulletin describing right-wing extremists as a potential terrorist threat as an attempt by the administration to demonize ordinary conservatives -- a simply risible (not to mention deeply irresponsible) claim. Kelly tried to claim that this was the supposedly the "second time" Obama had been caught using the term -- even though, in fact, he didn't actually say it to Earl Blumenauer.

Crowley was especially comical:

Crowley: He ought to really apologize for this vulgar and vile comment referencing the American people, and also try to give some sort of speech -- I know a lot of us have heard enough from the president already -- but he should try to put out some words that are going to make up for this kind of thing.

... But you know, Megyn, even if he were to go out and say this, I would encourage him to do it, but he's got a credibility problem now because it seems that every time there is a movement or an individual or an institution or an organization that disagrees with his policies, he personalizes it. He singles them out, whether it's Fox News, or Sergeant Crowley of the Cambridge police department, or the entire state of Arizona for supporting this new immigration law, whether it's the Tea Party movement, he has this willingness that's very unbecoming of the American president, to go out and single out the American people.

Of course, neither of them get around to explaining exactly why the president needs to show deference to a movement explicitly organized around opposing him and any and every policy he might try to enact, a movement embodied by people who call him a Marxist and a fascist and depict him as a witch doctor with a bone in his nose.

But most amusing of all is the notion that calling Tea Partiers "teabaggers" is a horrendous, unforgivable slur. As Dave Weigel says, it's clear that Tea Partiers find it offensive now, so that's probably reason enough not to use it if you're interested in conversing with them. That's a big if, though.

[Cha]

1. Can you see Pres Obama apologizing for

calling them teabaggers?

I didn't know what that meant before everyone was refering them to teabaggers and it stuck..they're stuck with it, afaic.

Teabaggergate is right..they brought it on themselves being poster representatives of Ignorance.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. They should blame Fox News' Neil Cavuto...here's what he wrote in May 2009:

:rofl:

[Cha]

17. tool cavuto..pushing that teabagger meme.

he needs to apologize to all Americans for being such a farking farce.

[Angry Dragon]

8. I had to google it

I had no idea it was a sexual fetish. It amazes me that "ALL" the teabaggers know that it is a sexual fetish. It is not up to the President to tell them that they can not practice in their homes and offices, that would violate their civil rights and it says right in the constitution that they are free to practice teabagging.

[uppityperson]

26. not a fetish, just an act

sexual indeed however, but not a fetish any more than oral sex is.

[Angry Dragon]

31. I might have chosen my words better

Acts can turn into fetishes, but a sex act probably is better use of words.

[NYC_SKP]

33. Awesome. Historic. Hugh.... "The Teabagger Speech"

:rofl:

[Cha]

34. The giant teabagger

mea culpa..:P

He already said that ..they should thanking him for the tax cuts.:)

[Saturday]

2. I don't think FAUX will hire any female that isn't dumb.

And why do they all have to have blonde hair?

[glitch]

22. In addition to drug testing (for, btw) they also perform frontal lobotomies. nt.

[WorseBeforeBetter]

32. They're not dumb...they know exactly what they are doing.

It's cold, calculating and cynical.

[dflprincess]

4. Isn't that what they started out calling themselves?

Until somebody clued them in?

[MUAD_DIB]

7. Yep. So laughably sad.

[dmallind]

5. Reminds me of the Christian poutrage over Xmas and Xian

But in a time scale suited to today's shorter attention. It took Xians hundreds of years to get pissy about their own terminology and trying to deny it came from them. Didn't even take teabaggers that many days.

[MUAD_DIB]

6. And yet these blonde mouth breathers nary bat an eyelash when some GOPig

calls our side of the Isle the "Democrat" party.

They can go fuck themselves if they don't like it. It's their own idiotic name for themselves!

[sarge43]

9. You can't make this up.

They're going to put The Onion out of business.

[Morning Dew]

10. teabagging for Jesus

http://www.buzzfeed.com/ebroodle/protestors-now-teabagging-for-jesus-68j

[Enrique]

11. she looks familiar, where have I seen her before?

oh, yeah...

[Amerigo Vespucci]

18. The mouths really ARE identical!

:rofl:

:toast:

[progressoid]

21. That's not very nice.

Piranha don't deserve the humiliation of being compared to her.

[Fleshdancer]

12. 'Teabagger' Finalist For Oxford's Word of the Year:

Perhaps she should have a fit over this first:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/18/teabagger-added-to-oxford_n_362504.html

"Teabagger" is a finalist for the New Oxford American Dictionary's "word of the year."

Oxford gave a statement to Mediaite to clarify that they meant the political "teabagger," not anything salacious:

It should be noted that the term "teabagger" appears on Oxford's list because of the usage cited on that list, not because of any other meaning. Citations for the political sense were found in a number of legitimate sources throughout the year. As a reference to members of the currently active Tea Party, the word has been used in speech and print by both liberals and conservatives. In this context, the term "teabagger" is a reasonably conceived informal name for an affiliate of the Tea Party, and as a word in the news, it earned a mention for the year 2009.

[City Lights]

13. No can do, Monica. Once a teabagger, always a teabagger.

:rofl:

You started it. Neener, neener, neener. :P

[WinkyDink]

14. FOX ALWAYS goes for publicizing the lurid in the guise of "news." The Ken Starr Syndrome.

[louis-t]

15. I think he should keep referring to them that way.

Or maybe he should say "I'm sorry that teabaggers were offended by my remark. If teabaggers don't wanna be called teabaggers, then why did the teabaggers refer to themselves as teabaggers until someone pointed out to the teabaggers what teabaggers is slang for?"

[Qutzupalotl]

16. To "single out the American people"?

That makes my brain hurt. Maybe he was just singling out the stupid ones, Monica.

[Cha]

19. Right after Los Suns "apologize" to

hayworth.}(

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8284481

[emulatorloo]

20. "{Obama's] got a credibility problem" HA HA, more like Fox has a credibility problem

[SpiralHawk]

23. Typical whiney republicon losers

You lost: stop whining and deal with it.

[lob1]

24. Teabaggers named themselves teaabaggers. That's the biggest insult of all.

[snooper2]

25. Rush slipped and called them teabaggers a couple days ago

I almost drove into the median I was laughing so hard...

I flipped to see what dipshit was saying about the oil spill and he was on some pro-teabagger rant...

Then he said it.. "These folks going to these protests, the teabaggers" Then of course for the rest of the segment he kept saying "tea parties"

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

27. Who's personalizing whom (and what)?

The whole "Tea Party" *movement* is basically centered around opposition to/hatred of President Obama and the Democratic Party agenda in general. Heck, most of the people involved in the "Tea Party" movement don't even believe that he is a US Citizen (and thus ineligible to be POTUS) and keep insisting that they be allowed to see his birth certificate. How much more freakin' personal can anybody get than THAT???

:wtf:

[Brewman_Jax]

28. Let 'em whine

No apologies! They don't like being called teabaggers, they shouldn't be teabaggers.

[Supersedeas]

29. Teabaggers too stupid to pick a name and too cowardly to stick to the one they chose

They don't deserve an apology, your bleachiness....they deserve to be EXPOSED for their stupidity, their direct affiliation with BIG MONEY RIGHT WING CORPORATE MEDIA CONGLOMERATES, and for their shills who display such utter cowardice in the face of exposure.

Did the BIRTHERS apologize?
Did the Death Panel liars apologize?

Should the Teabaggers, Birthers, and DP Liars all receive apologies when their stupidity is exposed?

RW propoganda and Greedy opportunism is behind this weak fisted call for an apology.

[Ilsa]

30. +1. I love it! Sums them up perfectly. Thanks. nt