Why do they call themselves 'teabaggers'? [W: 377]

[Lord of Planar]

I don't even know what "occupying" is. Never heard it before.

I think someone just made these terms up when the Tea parties sprang up.

 

[Sheik Yerbuti]

No one with in the TEA Party movement ever referred to themselves as tea baggers. It was those on the radical left who coined the term to be used towards those belonging to the TEA Party movement knowing that it is a sexual act.

Sure, uh-huh. Spew your nonsense to these self-proclaimed teabaggers...

 

[APACHERAT]

Sure, uh-huh. Spew your nonsense to these self-proclaimed teabaggers...

I suppose the TEA Party members on the Left Coast familiarization with San Francisco and West Hollywood's Gay Pride parades were more knowledgeable about what tea bagging was all about.

You would have thought CNN's Anderson Cooper would have informed Wolf Blitzer.

 

[year2late]

Well if occupying is dirtier than teabagging, I'm curious as to your definition. :lol:

Well, I am imagining there could be Sun-teabagging and Sun don't shine-teabagging.

But that is only a guess.:2razz:

 

[Grand Mal]

The problem I have with todays liberals, there are to many radicals from the fringe of the left who hide behind the liberal label.

Noeconservatives are liberals. They were the liberals of the Democrat Party during the 40's, 50's and 60's who left the Democrat Party when the "New Left" hijacked the Democrat Party during the 70's and came under the GOP tent.

Lets see if I can help you out.

A neoconservative (also spelled "neo-conservative";

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continue -> New Left - Discover the Networks

Didn't need any help, but I appreciate the (ahem!) effort. Beaking off about 'todays liberals' with unsupportable assertions and quoting someone else's opinion of the 'New Left' looks like dodging the question, but nice try.

 

[APACHERAT]

Didn't need any help, but I appreciate the (ahem!) effort. Beaking off about 'todays liberals' with unsupportable assertions and quoting someone else's opinion of the 'New Left' looks like dodging the question, but nice try.

The opinion of the author who is a RED DIAPER BABY and was one of the leaders of the "New Left" from the mid 50's through the 60's and to the mid 70's carries a lot of credibility wouldn't you say ?

I seriously doubt Tom Hayden, Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin would disagree with any thing that is in the article describing the "New Left." The author of the article personally knew the later.

 

[Mr.Nick]

It's a reference to the 'Boston Tea Party', am I right? And they're ultra-conservatives? Don't they know while liberals were tossing bales of tea into Boston harbour in defiance of royalty and aristocracy and offshore taxation, conservatives were nervously checking real-estate values in Nova Scotia? Liberals fomented the American Revolution and inspired liberal activism and free-market values in Europe while conservatives were circling the wagons and clinging to class-stratified society and monopoly economics.

Progressives call tea party members "tea baggers" - tea party members don't refer to themselves as such.

It really goes to show how nice and tolerant the progressives actually are no?

Ironically progressives are opposed to gay slurs yet use gay slurs to attack the tea party. How nice and logical right?

 

[Zyphlin]

Sure, uh-huh. Spew your nonsense to these self-proclaimed teabaggers...

You realize that your pictures don't actually counter what he said. He stated they didn't call themselves teabaggers

You showed pictures of people saying "Tea bagging"

Those are not the same thing. They can't be "Self proclaimed tea baggers" when the pictures you're showing don't have them proclaiming htemselves as "tea baggeres".

Continuing the same ignorant argument over and over again doesn't make it right, it just makes it foolish

 

[Sheik Yerbuti]

You realize that your pictures don't actually counter what he said. He stated they didn't call themselves teabaggers

You showed pictures of people saying "Tea bagging"

Those are not the same thing. They can't be "Self proclaimed tea baggers" when the pictures you're showing don't have them proclaiming htemselves as "tea baggeres".

Continuing the same ignorant argument over and over again doesn't make it right, it just makes it foolish

Who teabags if not teabaggers?

 

[Grand Mal]

Progressives call tea party members "tea baggers" - tea party members don't refer to themselves as such.

It really goes to show how nice and tolerant the progressives actually are no?

Ironically progressives are opposed to gay slurs yet use gay slurs to attack the tea party. How nice and logical right?

I had no idea of the 'gay slur' aspect of the term. I'd never heard it until (oddly enough) I heard of conservatives referring to themselves.

 

[Grand Mal]

The opinion of the author who is a RED DIAPER BABY and was one of the leaders of the "New Left" from the mid 50's through the 60's and to the mid 70's carries a lot of credibility wouldn't you say ?

I seriously doubt Tom Hayden, Bill Ayers, Abbie Hoffman or Jerry Rubin would disagree with any thing that is in the article describing the "New Left." The author of the article personally knew the later.

Stephen Hawking carries a lot of crediblity when he talks about time and space. Has nothing to do with the question. You're blowing smoke.

 

[APACHERAT]

Stephen Hawking carries a lot of crediblity when he talks about time and space. Has nothing to do with the question. You're blowing smoke.

Referring to David Horowitz.

There are only so many "Red Diaper Babies" in America and I wasn't aware that Steve Hawking was one of them. But I'll take your word for it. Just don't let me down.

 

[Zyphlin]

Who teabags if not teabaggers?

Irrelevant to the fact that your statement of what they were "Self proclaiming" to be and what you showed doesn't match. You're attempting to argue one thing ("If someone is saying they should Tea Bag someone, then they should be called Tea baggers") that has nothing to do with the original claim that was challenged (That they were proclaiming themselves "tea baggers")

 

[Sheik Yerbuti]

Irrelevant to the fact that your statement of what they were "Self proclaiming" to be and what you showed doesn't match. You're attempting to argue one thing ("If someone is saying they should Tea Bag someone, then they should be called Tea baggers") that has nothing to do with the original claim that was challenged (That they were proclaiming themselves "tea baggers")

WTF??

Did you not see the photo I posted of that dear sweet-looking old lady?? She's not saying 'someone should be teabagged' -- she saying she's doing the teabagging! And for Jesus, no less. Holy ****, that's ****ed up!

So again I ask, who teabags if not teabaggers??

 

[ChrisL]

I'm just wondering why does it matter? And who cares?

 

[Grand Mal]

Referring to David Horowitz.

There are only so many "Red Diaper Babies" in America and I wasn't aware that Steve Hawking was one of them. But I'll take your word for it. Just don't let me down.

?????

 

[Zyphlin]

So again I ask, who teabags if not teabaggers??

Yes, I see you asking your strawman again.

Once again, it's no more relevant to your initial claim that you failed to back up.

You claimed one thing...proceeded to post something that didn't match your claim....and then when confronted are attempting to make a different claim.

Putting your back tracking attempt to cover up your incompetent attempt to verify your claim in bold letters doesn't make it any less irrelevant.

 

[TheNextEra]

Who teabags if not teabaggers?

Zyphlin is right, they don't call themselves teabaggers. However, a question better asked would be if some on the tea party use signs that use phrases like "teabagging" and "<insert place here> has been teabagged", why are they suprised to be called tea baggers?

There was a sign here in Reno, NV during the last election that said "We're teabagging for America". Never understood that.

 

[Heebie Jeebie]

There was a sign here in Reno, NV during the last election that said "We're teabagging for America". Never understood that.

Are you sure that wasn't an advertisement for services offered by a different industry?

 

[TheNextEra]

Are you sure that wasn't an advertisement for services offered by a different industry?

Not unless Sarah Palin is now a spokesperson for Lipton.

 

[Heebie Jeebie]

Not unless Sarah Palin is now a spokesperson for Lipton.

Maybe it was Keith Olberman shilling for Chock Full o' Nuts?

 

[Sheik Yerbuti]

Yes, I see you asking your strawman again.

Once again, it's no more relevant to your initial claim that you failed to back up.

You claimed one thing...proceeded to post something that didn't match your claim....and then when confronted are attempting to make a different claim.

Putting your back tracking attempt to cover up your incompetent attempt to verify your claim in bold letters doesn't make it any less irrelevant.

Calling it a strawman does not make it one. The woman says she's teabagging. She freely admits it. She says that of herself.

 

[mak2]

That uber right wing site I was on and people where I live referred to themselves as teabaggers for months, until they found out what it meant. To be honest, I had no idea myself. The next day the teabaggers acted like they had no idea someone was calling them that. Damn libs.

Calling it a strawman does not make it one. The woman says she's teabagging. She freely admits it. She says that of herself.

 

[APACHERAT]

That uber right wing site I was on and people where I live referred to themselves as teabaggers for months, until they found out what it meant. To be honest, I had no idea myself. The next day the teabaggers acted like they had no idea someone was calling them that. Damn libs.

How's it going mak2 :2wave:

I googled >"Tea Party, teabagger"< and I couldn't find in any TEA Party movement websites archives where they described themselves as "teabaggers." Only on the political left websites. There's actualy some websites that are comparable to Media Matters who's only agenda is attacking Fox News who's agenda is attacking the TEA Party movement. -> The Tea Party Actually Did Call Themselves 'Teabaggers' - Americans Against the Tea Party

Well there's always Wikipedia except Wikipedia should never be used as a reliable source, only as a starting point for further research. And to properly use Wikipedia, always go to the left top of the page and click on talk to see what discussions took place between the authors of the article.

On this topic, you have to use the talk page search engine and type in "teabagger" and you'll find more than a few days of reading in front of you.

Note: All political topics covered on Wikipedia are very bias and slanted to the left. When you go to the talk page you'll see.

From Wiki:
>"Use of term "teabagger"The term teabagger was initially used to refer to Tea Partiers after conservatives used tea bag as a verb on protest signs and websites. Members of the movement adopted the term, and referred to themselves as teabaggers. Shortly thereafter, however, others outside the movement began to use the term mockingly, alluding to the sexual connotation of the term when referring to Tea Party protesters. Most conservatives do not, for the most part, use the term with its double entendre meaning; rather it seems the political left has adopted the joke.[197][198][199] It has been used by several media outlets to humorously refer to Tea Party-affiliated protestors.[200] Some conservatives have advocated that the non-vulgar meaning of the word be reclaimed.[199] Grant Barrett, co-host of the A Way with Words radio program, has listed teabagger as a 2009 buzzword meaning, "a derogatory name for attendees of Tea Parties, probably coined in allusion to a sexual practice".[201]"<

Tea Party movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Then go to the talk page.

:attn1: Since the Obama administration and the IRS have targeted the TEA Party movement, technicaly they have become a protective group and Rule #20, of the DP rules probably includes the TEA Party as a protective group and reffering to a member of the TEA Party movement as a teabagger could be a 10 point infraction. ;- )
Well I just assume that.

 

[mak2]

Hey, I am doing great. Hope you are well. I think this info agrees with what I have said. I heard the term first from Tea Party people. I did not know it meant something else either. After I found out they thought it was offensive I referred to them as "People Who consume tea in small, happy groups" and phrases like that until I got bored with it and referred to them as tea partiers. I never thought of it as a big deal, but they sure did.

How's it going mak2 :2wave:

I googled >"Tea Party, teabagger"< and I couldn't find in any TEA Party movement websites archives where they described themselves as "teabaggers." Only on the political left websites. There's actualy some websites that are comparable to Media Matters who's only agenda is attacking Fox News who's agenda is attacking the TEA Party movement. -> The Tea Party Actually Did Call Themselves 'Teabaggers' - Americans Against the Tea Party

Well there's always Wikipedia except Wikipedia should never be used as a reliable source, only as a starting point for further research. And to properly use Wikipedia, always go to the left top of the page and click on talk to see what discussions took place between the authors of the article.

On this topic, you have to use the talk page search engine and type in "teabagger" and you'll find more than a few days of reading in front of you.

Note: All political topics covered on Wikipedia are very bias and slanted to the left. When you go to the talk page you'll see.

From Wiki:
>"Use of term "teabagger"The term teabagger was initially used to refer to Tea Partiers after conservatives used tea bag as a verb on protest signs and websites. Members of the movement adopted the term, and referred to themselves as teabaggers. Shortly thereafter, however, others outside the movement began to use the term mockingly, alluding to the sexual connotation of the term when referring to Tea Party protesters. Most conservatives do not, for the most part, use the term with its double entendre meaning; rather it seems the political left has adopted the joke.[197][198][199] It has been used by several media outlets to humorously refer to Tea Party-affiliated protestors.[200] Some conservatives have advocated that the non-vulgar meaning of the word be reclaimed.[199] Grant Barrett, co-host of the A Way with Words radio program, has listed teabagger as a 2009 buzzword meaning, "a derogatory name for attendees of Tea Parties, probably coined in allusion to a sexual practice".[201]"<

Tea Party movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Then go to the talk page.

:attn1: Since the Obama administration and the IRS have targeted the TEA Party movement, technicaly they have become a protective group and Rule #20, of the DP rules probably includes the TEA Party as a protective group and reffering to a member of the TEA Party movement as a teabagger could be a 10 point infraction. ;- )
Well I just assume that.