Hey, I was playing your game and comparing what I showed vs what you showed. The videos you posted were tame compared to what was going on at the teabagging rallies. I trust you're not justifying teabaggers saying Obama is going to round people up and burn them to death in ovens by showing these images. Remember, this is whether or not the teabaggers were engaged in a civil, grassroots demonstration, not who can out-Hitler the other.
First, they're not teabaggers, unless you have personal proof otherwise. Have you gargled any of the tea party protesters lately, hoojacks? Second, you're showing outliers with those photos. You show me proof that the thrust of the Tea Party movement is based on labeling Obama Hitler, and I'll buy it. Until then, their very existence shows the grassroots nature of those get togethers. An movement organized with the sophistication which you claim that remains so well hidden would certainly not allow those kinds of counterproductive signs. Third, if you want to know how civil those Tea Party gatherings were, they picked up their garbage afterward. In all my time in living in DC, I've never seen the Mall cleaner after a demonstration than before it. Fourth, you brought up the Hitler card. Don't blame me the Left wrote the book on calling a sitting president Hitler.
Personally, I'd like to see Obama do another bow to the leader of some non-descript country. Oh, wait, he's already bowed to everybody around the world!! I guess he'll have to start bowing to kids on the playground next.
Palin literally quit on her state . . . how can this person seriously be considered for another government type job? If the President's job gets to be an inconveniece for her or she gets a job opportunity to host a TV show . . . history says she will quit her position to pursue the more lucrative opportunity.
So, is that different than Bush holding hands with that Saudi guy? Or Nixon bowing to Hirohito? ignore the cheesy voice the guy used for the narration, but pay attention to the words and who else bowed. [video=youtube;LCpKpyXElmo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCpKpyXElmo[/video]
ooooh zing! Except that he is using the term correctly... hell I've heard people from those rallies describe themselves as teabaggers. So this is just you being an ass http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagger STOMP
here is Nixon bowing to the great communist satan Chairman Mao. The conservative we have here can be so silly [video=youtube;kI0GMR2w59Y]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI0GMR2w59Y[/video] STOMP
Sorry, Anderson Cooper doesn't count. In fact, I'm sure he's teabagged his share of folks. The preferred nomenclature is "Tea Party Goer", but you can try to diminish them any way you wish.
Obama's bow put Nixon's to shame. He practically threw himself on the ground and licked the guy's shoes.
Anderson Cooper??? what are you talking about and why even bring up his sexuality? Of course you've just done this to a poster here too, so maybe thats just the lame way you roll Does Anderson Cooper own a website called Urban Dictionary? How am I "diminishing" a group by correctly pointing out what they often call themselves and are referred to as in mainstream American culture? It seems you just want to demean those you disagree with. STOMP
Anderson Cooper was the first one to call them "Teabaggers". I just thought the fact he's gay made his putdown of those folks ironic because he's likely engaged in that activity quite a bit himself. Also, I have never heard one person at a Tea Party rally ever refer to themselves as "teabaggers". As for "mainstream American culture", you may refer to them that way, but then again, the tactic has been to marginalize these people by calling them part of a radical fringe. I'm not going to begrudge anyone from using their First Amendment rights to protest about the increasing span of government control on our lives. The idea of living in freedom is pretty mainstream to me, but on that measure we probably disagree.
This thread is a great indication of why I hate politics. Intelligent people on either side of the political spectrum reduced to exchanging barbs. Really? This is what you want to discuss? Which party bows deeper and more often to foreign political leaders? Which party has accussed its rival party's leader of being Hitler? Unfortunately, this seems to be what politics is today, even when I look at people who should be above it like Congress.
obviously this is titillating stuff for you... me not so much. I couldn't care less about Anderson Cooper as a reporter but I wish him well in his personal life. I knew what the term teabagging meant prior to this movement, but I doubt I was in the majority knowing about this slang term for a sex act. Since this political movement rose up, the word/term has a new meaning and is used interchangeably with tea partiers. You can come to terms with this having happened and stop with the insults... in 2009 America that movement owns the combined words tea & bag in every sense. I've heard conservative commentators use the term tea baggers, I've heard tea partiers use it in interviews too. lastly, if anything the preexisting sex slang is as much a bonus for them as it is an embarrassment. It's a loaded word that raises the blood pressure of some which brings them added attention. They definitely want attention and as they say any publicity is good publicity. Besides, you do know it's not just a gay sex act... right? STOMP
Not at all. But Anderson Cooper deserves to be called out for belittling Americans who are protesting the increasing role of government in their lives. It was hardly an obscure term. Your doubt is unfounded. It's only used by people looking to impugn the credibility and motives of these protesters. Those who attend tea parties don't refer to themselves as "teabaggers". Why should I come to terms with one side trying to denegrate an entire movement? I get why you're trying to use the term; words have power. However, shouldn't you show them respect? Perhaps, you're afraid of their message. I know if I were on the Left, I'd be nervous the quiet majority of Americans that just try to live their lives are rising up against this transformation of America. As for them owning the term in "every sense", why are you so fixated on these people gargling testicles? Do you really think that's what they do? Name the commentators. Provide the links to where they used it. I'd also be interested in seeing the number of tea party goers who refer to themselves as "teabaggers". I know several people who attended the DC Tea Party in July and I know they're annoyed at the term. I can only assume they're relating the majority viewpoint of the tea partiers as I haven't seen any conflicting information. Ah, the "any publicity is good publicity" argument. Sorry, it doesn't work for these folks. By every account, these protests have been civil and respectful. These people haven't been confrontational. They haven't gone out of their way to piss people off. They want attention, but the they want the message to come to the forefront, not them personally. As for it being more than a gay act, I understand that as well. Thanks for belaboring the obvious.
I don't know, if you make statements about one party, when your own party does the same, it's kind of makes you look like you're just a talking point machine.
