Does anyone have a link to the first mention of the term "Tea Baggers"? I am getting hit with

[LaydeeBug]

"the left made that term up to make us look bad", and I *know* that isn't true, but can't find my link.

Anyone? I will love you forever.

[jmg257]

1. A bit of Tea Bag history...

http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-bagger

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posted on May 5, 2010, at 3:21 PM

"Was President Obama speaking derogatively when he referred to the Tea Party as "tea baggers"? That's the topic of some debate after a review of Jonathan Alter's book, The Promise: President Obama, Year One, revealed that Obama used the term in November 2009. The grassroots movement didn't always consider "tea bagger" a slur: Early Tea Partiers innocently embraced the term until they discovered its vulgar connotations...

Feb. 27, 2009
At the first anti-stimulus "New American Tea Party" rally in Washington D.C., a protestor carries a sign reading "Tea Bag the Liberal Dems before they Tea Bag You!!" The Washington Independent's David Weigel calls it "the best sign I saw."
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March 2
Americans for Prosperity, an anti-tax group, is one of the first Tea Party organizations to advocate sending tea bags to elected officials to protest the stimulus package. Several other lobby groups follow suit.

April 1
Several Tea Party protest sites encourage readers to "Tea bag the fools in DC." Jay Nordlinger at National Review Online later admits: "Conservatives started ... but others ran and ran with it."
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[Ian David]

10. Freeper Teabagger...

http://scienceblogs.com/tfk/2009/03/good_idea_1.php

[jmg257]

15. Thanks! - that's likely the 1st one mentioned in the timeline link/story I posted.

"Feb. 27, 2009
At the first anti-stimulus "New American Tea Party" rally in Washington D.C., a protestor carries a sign reading "Tea Bag the Liberal Dems before they Tea Bag You!!"

[Firebrand Gary]

2. I don't have a link.

However If I were you I would google it. Then do a search on Youtube.

[the other one]

3. The google news links from 2009

all seem to refer to them as tea baggers or "The Tea-Bag Party"

http://www.google.com/search?q=tea+bagger&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=tea+bagger&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=sEo&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:2009,cd_max:2009&tbm=nws&prmd=imvns&source=lnt&sa=X&ei=Qi2cTtvfOcLk0QHNgIHGBA&ved=0CBgQpwUoBw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=1110932681cb174&biw=1600&bih=753

[Capitalocracy]

4. Here's KO

http://www.politicususa.com/en/olbermann-teabagger

You may begin loving me forever now. ;)

[LaydeeBug]

14. This is *it* I love you, I love you, I love you FOREVER. nt

[rox63]

5. Well, they started walking around with tea bags hanging off their hats

I don't think they have anyone to blame but themselves.

http://www.google.com/search?q=tea+bag+hats&hl=en&biw=1028&bih=528&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=dC6cTu6rGcLZ0QGcwbjVBA&ved=0CGwQsAQ

[unapatriciated]

6. Here are a couple of links that might help.

Raw story regarding the history of the right using this the term teabagger
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/05/07/nro-admmits-wing-coined-teabaggers
In this link the conservatives admit that they used it first not knowing the meaning of the word.
http://nrd.nationalreview.com/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=

[babylonsister]

7. Per this, conservatives started it...

http://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/article/?q=Mjk1YmRjNzIxNmUwMTI0ZWYxZWU4OWU2MzFiOWJmNDE=

[JHB]

8. Check the links people have given above, and search on "Tea Bag Party"

"Tea Bag Party" was a term they called themselves at first because they thought it was a clever modern touch on the Boston Tea Party theme... until they became aware of that other meaning of "tea-bagging". Once that other imagery sank in they and tried to pretend that other term never happened.

[KurtNYC]

9. It is a euphemism for a specific sexual act

and has been for 40 years or more.

I dare someone to go to a TP rally and hand out bags of peanuts with a big logo on them that says in clear letters "Salty Corporate Nuts" then video their enjoyment.

[Ian David]

11. "Tea Bagging" Rallies Ruthlessly Mocked On Maddow Show

"Tea Bagging" Rallies Ruthlessly Mocked On Maddow Show

Tonight, on the Rachel Maddow Show, Maddow and regular guest, Air America's Ana Marie Cox, discussed the fringetastic anti-tax Renaissance Faires known as "tea parties." There is only one thing in all the world worth noting about the people behind these things, and it is this: everyone involved is apparently unaware of what the term "teabagging" means. As you will see, this is not the case with Maddow and Cox.

"Now, no laughing off set or I will lose it!" begged Maddow, "I'm only barely making it through as it is." She said this BEFORE Cox joined the segment. From there, it just got better: "Who wouldn't want to tea bag John McCain?" Cox asked. "This is all part of the midterm strategy," she added. "You know it's going to be teabagging 24/7 when it comes to the midterms." And it shall be. Of this you can be certain.

I really do not have to say anything more. You all enjoy this, now. I'm just going to show myself out. Good night!

More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/rachel-maddow-ana-marie-c_n_185445.html

[Ian David]

12. Is ‘Teabagger’ An Epithet? Rachel Maddow Teaches A Tea Party History Lesson

Is ‘Teabagger’ An Epithet? Rachel Maddow Teaches A Tea Party History Lesson

Last night on her show, pegged to the news of rival factions of the Tea Party Movement sort of squaring off, Rachel Maddow dedicated an entire segment to tracing the etymological history of the right-wing campaign. In addition to the “often entertaining in-fighting among all of the warring tea party factions,” Maddow noted, a new question has come to the forefront: “Should the Tea Party folks really be calling themselves ‘teabaggers?’”

In an op-ed entitled “Rise of an Epithet,” the National Review Online‘s Jay Nordlinger argues that the derivation and connotation of the word “teabagger” may be detrimental to the cause. After all, its sexual nature was chuckled about even on the mainstream news, and to the left it has become a go-to putdown (albeit one that was handed to those smarmy liberals on a silver platter — just like their lattes, naturally). Nordlinger writes:

In any event, it may well be too late to purge “teabagger” from our discourse, certainly from discourse controlled by liberals. But I’m for giving it a try: for running “teabagger” out of town, even at this late date. It is really a lowdown term. “Tea partier” is a neutral term. “Tea-party patriots” is a positive term, used by some of the protesters themselves. “Teabagger” — not so positive, and not so neutral.

More:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/is-teabagger-an-epithet-rachel-maddow-teaches-a-tea-party-history-lesson/


Keith Olbermann Reminds the Teabaggers that They Coined Their Own Name

On his MSNBC show Countdown, host Keith Olbermann reminded the teabaggers, who just now seem to have figured out what the name means, where the term teabagger came from. Hint: it wasn’t Maddow or Olbermann but the teabaggers themselves who coined the term.

Here is the video:

More:
http://www.politicususa.com/en/olbermann-teabagger



Enough with the whining! 'Teabaggers' actually introduced the term they now claim is a slur

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.

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


http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2009/11/teabagger-finalist-for-oxford-word-of-the-year-anderson-cooper-approves.html

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_JthwHxdA-dc/SamI8EhvARI/AAAAAAAAAnA/i8uxKmurStw/s400/Tea+Bag.jpg
http://falsehustle.blogspot.com/2009_02_22_archive.html

[polly7]

13. I remember this unfortunate picture and almost feel bad posting it, but

obviously this woman didn't know what teabagging meant .... she must have gotten the term from somewhere other than an internet porn site.

[pnorman]

16. Tanks for raising that question!

k & r!

[LeftinOH]

17. The term (and practice) was featured prominently in the 1998 film "Pecker" by John Waters.

Whether the term originated there, or already existed --no clue.