Countdown with Keith Olbermann did a report on the tea protests on April 15 by more conservative folks. I have been offended when I have gotten emails about this tea protests because of the discussion of "teabagging" Obama. The term "teabagging" for those of you that don't know, has more pornographic referrence as well. Due to the fact it refers to certain oral gifts to a male, it also has the possibility of implying the president is homosexual as well. I asked a person to take me off of their email list because of this email.
Countdown, which I was watching because Shannyn Moore from Homer was on again, decided to go all out in several intentional off-color allusions to the "teabagging", and referrring to the conservative "teabaggers". In the process they referred to the protest as "full-throated", and said that the conservatives were trying to "lick" the stimulus spending, and then made a reference to this kind of protest not being complete without a person with an abbreviated form of the name Richard involved.
The people doing this protest needed to give the name of the protests much more thought. It matters what you name something
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interesting........
I have seen it in the headlines as I peruse the online news, but haven't been much interested in it. Now I want to find out more about what is going on..... truth is, indeed, stranger than fiction most of the time.
Interesting. The "tea bag" thing I've only heard to as a reference to a protest involving sending pictures of tea bags to ones congressional representatives, which like the tea parties, is obviously a referrence to the Boston Tea Party. As far as Olbermann goes he's either the worst actor I've ever seen or he's seriously mentally ill. His whole act looks like a poor imitation of how he thinks an angry person would talk "HOW DARE YOU, SIR!" etc. with the huge eyes. Seriously, go around talking like that for a few days and see if you don't wind up in a psych ward. I'm hearing scary stuff from the far-right, but as many times as I've been called a Nazi the last 9 years, it's going to take more to get me riled up than a potentially off-color reference.
um, i have no idea what we're talking about. fill me in?
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