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Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox Discuss the Merits of Tea-Bagging
I feel dirty.
And also, somehow, proud of Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox. Tonight on Rachel's show, the found the Holy Grail of double entendre. I wonder if Glenn Beck gets it.
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I wonder if the teabaggers know yet how funny they are?
April 9, 2009 11:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
BTW, is that your baby? (the new avatar?)
April 9, 2009 11:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah. Isn't he cute?
April 10, 2009 12:00 AM | Reply | Permalink
I loved your old avatar, but your baby is precious...
April 10, 2009 12:16 AM | Reply | Permalink
What a cutie. Murry would like a play date.
HP has more teabaggers:
Tea Party Video: Right-Wing Tax Protests Caught On Tape
I don't know what's more frighting, their anger or mindlessness?
Rachel and Ana Marie rock...s
April 10, 2009 1:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
Somebody should beckon beck to become someone better than himself.
WHAT
April 10, 2009 12:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
... can't
... breathe
... morons!
April 10, 2009 12:43 AM | Reply | Permalink
It comes as no surprise to me that the Prurient Prelates Peremptorily Promoting Policy In The Party of Public Potty Peepers, would be strident supporters of teabagging.
April 10, 2009 1:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
There is a typical misrepresentation happening here. From the Boston tea Party where tea (which was heavily taxed and a popular drink at the time) was dumped into the bay at some risk (and certainly personal cost) to the demonstrators, and folks buying tea bags to get Obama to give an elite who has our government in its hip pocket to transfer more of the wealth of the nation into their pockets. In other words, the Boston Tea party was resistance to taxation without representation and "tea bagging" is to encourage taxation without representation. Too weird.
I don't know how Maddow held it together.
Thanks for the clip. I was busy tonight and missed it.
April 10, 2009 1:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
What I find hilarious is that the vast majority of the demonstrators will see a tax cut under Obama's plan.
You've got to hand it to the rich. They get rich off the backs of the middle class and the poor and then they get some of us to do their protest for them. Pretty good deal for them.
April 10, 2009 2:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
It is the no lose situation that they structured, but then the whole economic mess runs on good times I win - bad times I win - stupid schmucks pick up the tab. What gripes me is that so many people can be so misinformed. Gads.
April 10, 2009 2:13 AM | Reply | Permalink
Consider also that TARP, The Automakers and Financial Institutes bailouts are shoring up public corporations to keep them out of bankruptcies. These programs in reality are direct governmental subsidies given to these entities' shareholders, and this directly keeps bondholders' capital investments from vanishing. The wealthiest 10% of Americans own 80%-85% of all business equities, so when people complain about redistribution of wealth because of these relief programs, they really mean a redistribution upwards, from the poorest to the wealthiest. In this context, increasing the tax rate upon America's wealthiest is just robbing from the rich, after giving to the rich, and seems like an equitable trade-off.
April 10, 2009 4:12 AM | Reply | Permalink
April 10, 2009 3:44 AM | Reply | Permalink
Oooh... Now I feel dirty too.
April 10, 2009 3:45 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's certainly the way it works down here on Sanford's Plantation. Gut the tax system, pocket the proceeds, and then hold forth at length about the evil of living beyond one's means.
The landscape for diversion is even richer here. When folks finally woke up and began to speak out against irresponsible, soulless and morally vacant leadership, lo and behold -- next day on page A1, above the fold, members of the legislature were staging protests in favor of the right to add a particularly empty bit of religious doggerel to our license plate.
We can teabag with the best of 'em. Right, Governor?
April 10, 2009 2:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
By some accounts, even more than just a tax protest, it was directed mainly against the British East India Co., which had been granted tax and monopoly advantages relative to the small, independent tea shops. Thom Hartmann (and maybe others) have referred to that organization as the Wal-Mart of its day. Today's equivalent of the BTP would be for a crowd to loot a Supercenter. Not that I'm saying they should do such a thing, of course.
April 10, 2009 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hilarious. Rachel did a good job of discussing 'teabagging without ever really discussing teabagging. :)
Oh, and... cute furry guy. Wot's his name?
April 10, 2009 3:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Orlando - I have no idea how Rachel and Ana Marie Cox went through that whole segment without losing it. And they aren't suffering from dirtiness, much. :-)
Is it at all possible that NOBODY has told these people what they are talking about and are so proud of? Considering all the time Republicans have spent tap dancing in airport restrooms in Minnesota or public stalls in Florida, not to mention the technological advances in communications with bookless pages that Republicans can claim, one would think .. you know, one would think something.
Some favorite lines from the clip:
On another note, Driving Puppy approves of your friend and would like to know if he has his license or learner's permit yet?
April 10, 2009 4:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
He's more car chaser, less car driver.
April 10, 2009 9:01 AM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently, I don't get out of the tipi enough. I had to use the google to find out what all the funnin' was about teabagging. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA...aaahhhhh. I learn something new everyday.
April 10, 2009 10:55 AM | Reply | Permalink
Apparently the PR genius who decided to first refer to the movement's members as "teabaggers" doesn't get out much either.
April 10, 2009 12:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just had a disgusting thought...If they are the teabag "ers" who are the teabag "ees"? Just wondering...cuz I'm thinkin' in this case, being an "er" might be better than being an "ee" (of course, depending on who the "er" is...)
April 10, 2009 12:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
OK, stilli. Now I'm worried. I followed that perfectly. :-)
April 10, 2009 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, well, it pays to have kids that share stuff like this w/ their moms...I just knew all their nasty talk would come in handy some day! I feel so informed!
April 10, 2009 8:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL @ Stilli
Nice to hear there is a pay-off down the road a bit.
=D
April 10, 2009 9:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Republicans for teabagging? These folks are nutz!
April 10, 2009 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
truckNutz! Yes! Now you gets it!
April 10, 2009 9:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Those of you who Google this be careful for virus laced links.
Back to the subject:
Nice, nice, very nice.
So many people in the same device.
April 10, 2009 1:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Round, and around, and around we spin,
With feet of lead and wings of tin.
April 10, 2009 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Who is Rachel Maddow?
April 10, 2009 1:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
You're kidding right? She's my hero.
April 10, 2009 2:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think doomer is, in fact, kidding.
April 10, 2009 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Piglet. Bring it on.....wake these folks up !!!
April 10, 2009 3:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
An existentialist question perhaps. Who are any us really? I don't know. I'm a hyper-cool -nerd with an Xbox and two unfinished Phd's. I can't know everything. Bee..leave....me....I tried. Who is she?
April 10, 2009 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
My hero. Try to keep up.
April 10, 2009 5:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
LOL :)
April 10, 2009 5:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
maybe we're all nothing but a bunch of WiiWiis
April 11, 2009 9:10 AM | Reply | Permalink
These baggers are fighting the rich man's war and don't even know it. They are being used and that makes me much more angry than the fact that this protest is aimed at Obama.
April 10, 2009 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
Your first sentence probably answers the question of who the teabaggers and the teabag-ees are (see upthread).
LOL
April 10, 2009 6:31 PM | Reply | Permalink