Loading ...Mickey forwarded me a story done by Jackson Baker, one of the most even-handed and fair-minded of Memphis’s political reporters. I was astonished that in the comments, rather than addressing the substance of his article, people were jumping up and down about him refering to the TEA party folks as ‘teabaggers’ and ‘TeaBag’ party.
On the eve of a 9th District congressman Steve Cohen’s Saturday Town Hall meeting on health-care legislation at the Bridges Center downtown, TeaBag Tea Party protesters rallied Thursday night in Germantown and made plans to show up at the planned informational session en masse.
The TeaBagger TeaPartier meeting, an overflow from a scheduled Town Hall meeting held by 7th District congressman Marsha Blackburn, an opponent of the bill now shaping up in Congress, was conducted on the parking lot adjoining the Macaroni Grill, where Blackburn’s meeting had been originally scheduled.
The strike-outs and changes to the story was done by Baker and explained as follows:
UPDATE of UPDATE. Seems I was mistaken. As I tried to explain to some of the unforgiving complainants below, I’m too much of a shut-in and mope to have grasped the apparent sexual metaphor and (therefore) insult in the term “teabagger.” “Tea Partier” it is. No offense intended. Honest. A thousand pardons and mercy on me.
Look people, teabaggers picked up the label on their own before MSNBC decided to associate the term with the other ‘deviant sexual practice’. In the beginnings of this movement, people were trying to get me to send a tea bag to my Congressman (which I thought was a stupid idea) and some people were bringing tea bags to tea parties and throwing them in local lakes and rivers. So the tea bag thing just kinda stuck. No one became offended by being called a teabagger until MSNBC did their little bit of lunacy. Recently we have been called an ‘angry mob’, so many have taken up ‘mobster names’ and the #iamthemob is the hash used to track the ‘mob’ on Twitter.
Lighten up people, you are starting to sound like Al Sharpton!
the teabagger inference is a gay sexaul thing right?
So if a Union thug calls a protester a TEA Bagger before he assaulting the protester, that would make it a hate crime, right?
Personally I think gays are more offended to being connected with the tea party movement than mobsters are being called ‘teabaggers’. I figure if a union thug calls you a teabagger, just tell him how that blue t-shirt matches his eyes.