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09/11/09
I admit to giggling - but I blame them for this.
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And I'm kind of appalled at how all this term is like common parlance among all these middle-aged tv news guys. Wasn't this one of those expressions that Dan Savage got everyone to start using?
04/16/09
Damn him.
04/15/09
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04/11/09
Is she supposed to take them seriously?
And why is Rachel the last person, because her sex with Susan does not include testicles?
I find some of the responses here show some "spoiled sportedness."
If you wanna ride a Rachel backlash, Ryan, be my guest, but you're in the vast minority.
This blogger apparently thought it was genius.
[iamatvjunkie.typepad.com]
04/16/09
I enjoy Maddow. I don't think the fact that she's the liberal poster girl for the moment is a legitimate reason to dislike her, although I get that anything that is universally liked within a community becomes lame by definition (See: Coldplay circa 2005). That said, she's often smug, you gotta admit it. There's a fair bit of mileage left on the Teabaggin' humor train, but she would've fared far better had she not worked the joke into the ground in a single program. That's what I find somewhat irritating about her, to be honest, the air of 'I'm so original'. There's nothing I've ever heard her say that wasn't already said on a blog and/or by other political commenters. So, yeah, the smugness irritates.
Everyone who watches your show already agrees with you on your opinions as much as Glen Beck viewers agree with him on his. Don't bash me over the head with it.
04/10/09
04/10/09
This just points out another difference between conservatives and liberals: Liberals denigrate conservatives' right to free speech.
04/10/09
04/10/09
*Smails and Smails-like people not included.
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04/10/09
After eight years of being told that I should either support the war in Iraq or shut up, no social conservative has any room to be telling anyone that they can't mock the same people that voted for these jackasses in the first place. I say MOCK AWAY -- you people deserve it. All I ask as we mock accurately. It's not that hard to come up with many reasons to ridicule the people who ruined our country (or blindly supported those that did).
04/11/09
I don't like to "denigrate conservatives' right to free speech; I just like making fun of them.
04/10/09
04/10/09
But as a liberal I feel comfortable pointing out that I believe the term is "Tea Party," as in "Boston Tea Party" not "Boston Teabag Party."
The "teabagging" part (as least as far as I can tell) is a construct made up by the people who want to make fun of these "Get a Brain Morans" people.
The joke is less funny when you realize that these people in fact did not make this term up themselves (because, you know, they're so stupid and don't know what "teabagging" is, har-har.)
It appears to me that "tea party" was changed to "teabag (or teabagging) party" by people who want to force this joke upon us. Sometimes, it must be admitted, liberals can be "Morans", too, even if they're better spellers (but don't know how to change their oil filters).
04/10/09
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04/10/09
04/10/09
I hate defending these people, because I don't like them and I have few agreements with them (though I certainly hate pork barrel politics, too, especially MILITARY PORK), but it also makes liberals look better to approach stuff like this objectively and fairly instead of "running with a meme" just because it's (ostensibly) funny and it denigrates the other side. It is, after all, one of the things that (ostensibly) separates social liberalism form social conservatism.