Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Berolzheimer]

The first half of this is pretty funny, the rest is good too.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22425001/vp/30199155#30199155

[Barkley McKay]

Yes, funny.

You did NOT want to fall asleep in the tour bus with your mouth open for fear of being tea-bagged...

I liked the phrase of people "going nuts for it" and "in a nutshell"
Do you think the reporter got the innuendo?  


barks

[TotalSonic]

I'm assuming none of these Republican "tea baggers" have ever seen John Waters' "Pecker" - cause they might be in for a surprise!  

Best regards,
Steve Berson

[rollmottle]

Was remarking to a colleague earlier that this was some of the most inspired double entendre and innuendo of all time. The reporter was RELISHING reading it. Props to him for keeping it together all the way through that.

[Berolzheimer]

rollmottle wrote on Wed, 15 April 2009 13:40

Was remarking to a colleague earlier that this was some of the most inspired double entendre and innuendo of all time. The reporter was RELISHING reading it. Props to him for keeping it together all the way through that.

Yep, he was really on the ball.

[mgod]

Absolutely brilliant.

DS

[zmix]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30210576/

Quote:

For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15th will be Tax Day.  But in our fourth story tonight: It‘s going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they‘re going nuts for it.  Thousands of them whipped out the festivities early this past weekend, and while the parties are officially toothless, the teabaggers are full-throated about their goals. They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending—spending they did not oppose when they were under presidents Bush and Reagan.  They oppose Mr. Obama‘s tax rates—which will be lower for most of them—and they oppose the tax increases Mr.  Obama is imposing on the rich, whose taxes will skyrocket to a rate about 10 percent less than it was under Reagan.  That‘s teabagging in a nut shell. Taking its inspiration from the Boston Tea Party when colonists tossed British tea into the sea because the tax in it had not been voted on by their own duly-elected representatives—that‘s exactly the opposite, of course, of today‘s taxes, known in some quarters as taxation with representation. But as “New York Times” columnist, Paul Krugman, points out today, this time, the tea bagging is not a spontaneous uprising.  The people who came up with it are a familiar circle of Republicans, including former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, both of whom have firm support from right-wing financiers and lobbyists.  As well as Washington prostitute patron, Senator David Vitter, who has issued statements in support of teabagging but is publicly tight-lipped. Then there was the media, specifically the FOX News Channel, including Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity.  Both are looking forward to an up close and personal taste of teabagging themselves at events this Wednesday.  But most amusing of all is Neil Cavuto, a member of the network‘s executive committee.  Neil‘s online bio says he joined the network in July of 1996, three months before the FOX News Channel went on the air. Cavuto, defending his network‘s proportion of teabagging said, quote, “We are going to be right in middle of these teabaggers, because at FOX, we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests.  We were there for the Million Man March. Can we roll that footage, the FOX News coverage of the Million Man March backing in October of ‘95? Of course, the Million Man March occurred, as NewsHounds.org points out, almost a year before FOX News was on the air. We can only speculate why widespread teabagging made Cavuto think of the Million Man March, unless he got them confused with Dick Armey.  And in Cavuto‘s defense, if you are planning simultaneous teabagging all around the country, you‘re going to need a Dick Armey.

[PRobb]

Dick Army is a supporter. And if you're gonna teabag all over the country, you're going to need a Dick Army!    

[bblackwood]

Pretty brilliant bit of writing there - reminds me of something Jon Stewart would do.

That being said, to act as if this is a 'republican' would be fallacious - certainly many of the folks that turned out were Repubs, but I've seen very few anti-Obama reports from today's demonstrations. Most readily admit this has been a long time coming, and the recent bailouts (by both Bush and Obama) were the figurative straws that broke the camel's back.

What I saw today has nothing to do with partisan politics - it was purely about dissatisfaction with the way our federal government has swollen out of control.

[PRobb]

bblackwood wrote on Wed, 15 April 2009 23:27

Pretty brilliant bit of writing there - reminds me of something Jon Stewart would do. That being said, to act as if this is a 'republican' would be fallacious - certainly many of the folks that turned out were Repubs, but I've seen very few anti-Obama reports from today's demonstrations. Most readily admit this has been a long time coming, and the recent bailouts (by both Bush and Obama) were the figurative straws that broke the camel's back. What I saw today has nothing to do with partisan politics - it was purely about dissatisfaction with the way our federal government has swollen out of control.

I think it's so cute that Republicans are suddenly pretending to care about spending and deficits.

[bblackwood]

PRobb wrote on Wed, 15 April 2009 22:49

I think it's so cute that Republicans are suddenly pretending to care about spending and deficits.

Yah, I do, too. For decades they've accused the Dems of 'tax and spend', yet that's been their bread and butter for 30+ years.

For the record, I'm NOT a republican.

This isn't about partisan politics, as far as I can tell. I think I saw a total of two signs today about Obama - the rest were about the bailouts, etc.

[PRobb]

bblackwood wrote on Thu, 16 April 2009 00:05

PRobb wrote on Wed, 15 April 2009 22:49 I think it's so cute that Republicans are suddenly pretending to care about spending and deficits. Yah, I do, too. For decades they've accused the Dems of 'tax and spend', yet that's been their bread and butter for 30+ years.

I have to disagree. Tax and spend has indeed been Democratic policy. Republican policy has been borrow and spend. Big difference. Several trillion dollars worth of debt difference.

Quote:

This isn't about partisan politics, as far as I can tell. I think I saw a total of two signs today about Obama - the rest were about the bailouts, etc.

This is absolutely partisan politics. It's supposed to look like  grass roots , but in fact it's  Astro Turf. Tea Party™ is a registered trademark of the RNC and Faux "News". This is a carefully calculated, well orchestrated play to inchoate anger.

[bblackwood]

PRobb wrote on Thu, 16 April 2009 07:52

I have to disagree. Tax and spend has indeed been Democratic policy. Republican policy has been borrow and spend. Big difference. Several trillion dollars worth of debt difference.

Touch

[wavdoctor]

I have my guns close and ammo dry...Can you say revolution!!
It's an AMERICAN party not Partisan.

[PRobb]

bblackwood wrote on Thu, 16 April 2009 09:43

[ Touch The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. -Edmund Burke Print Pages: [1] 2 3 ... 6   Go Up « previous next » R/E/P Community > R/E/P > R/E/P Archives > R/E/P Saloon > Teabagging   SMF 2.0.19 | SMF © 2021, Simple Machines | Terms and Policies XHTML RSS WAP2 Site Hosted By Ashdown Technologies, Inc. Page created in 0.06 seconds with 19 queries.