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Terrible Person Says Terrible Thing To Score Terrible Political Point
"This remark is the equivalent of using the 'n' word. It shows contempt for middle America, expressed knowingly, contemptuously, on purpose, and with a smirk. It is indefensible to use this word. The president knows what it means, and his people know what it means. The public thought we reached a new low of incivility during the Clinton administration. Well, the Obama administration has just outdone them."
-Americans for Tax Reform president Grover Norquist, discussing President Obama's use of the word "teabagger," casually dismisses three centuries of dehumanization, violence, and intimidation in the world's most pathetic attempt to manufacture outrage. Although not unsuccessfully; I'm pretty outraged.
The poor little victim!
Also! Ignores fact that it was the teabaggers themselves who chose the teabag symbol for themsevles in the first place.
It's OK for them to call themselves that. But it's not cool for other people to say it.
The "t" word, I mean.
Needs more themselves.
(Here is the problem – I had to lay off my comment copyeditor, what with the economy and all.)
Are you implying they will form the gritty hip-hop ensemble T.W.A.?
(heh. Efil4baggin.)
With Michael Steele will be the lead, naturally.
Jesus, I really was not joking about needing a comment copyeditor. I need to stop trying messing with my comments after writing them.
With Michael Steele AS the lead, naturally.
AUGH. I give up.
Teabaggers With Alzheimer's?
methinks he doth protest too much
He only did it once. In college. As part of a fraternity hazing ritual. But he can never forget … and even to this day, the word "teabagger" sets him off.
Every time I see this twerp, I have to go to my happy place, the one with the other Grover.
I thought you were talking about Grover Cleveland. :(
Yes, this duplicitous "tax-hating" fuckstick tends to turn me into Oscar the Grouch. I'm going to have to go down to Mr. Hooper's for a half-pint of the happy juice.
Aw. Mr Hooper.
Yep — they proudly and plainly called themselves teabaggers until those rotten "coastal elites" told them what it meant.
Like so.
And Like so.
That second sign even seems to imply some hostile awareness of what the term means.
Someone needs to tell that woman red is not her color.
Uncanny how assholes like Nordquist always claim to speak for "middle America" when they couldn't be further from what this country is all about, at its best.
…right? This ayyhole is the kind of political hothouse flower that could ONLY exist in a place like DC.
I had to explain to my MOTHER what tea bag meant.
Transcipt please.
This is why I don't talk politics with my mom.
Just have her watch that scene from Pecker. Problem solved, with a smile, thanks be to John Waters.
This is why I don't discuss testicles with my mom. It invariably leads to politics.
I looked it up on Urban Dictionary on my iphone and showed it to her. I couldn't bear to say the words. She was visiting me in DC and a particularly virulent group of teabaggers had descended upon the Capitol.
descended. heh.
Adam Serwer called it:
http://twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/13378847399
So can we just call them frottaging wankers instead?
I love the words "frottage" and "frotteur" — so much marvelous things I learned in junior high by reading the John Irving oeuvre.
So much? Er, "such."
Grover's a little off-topic here – isn't his usual bailiwick drowning things in bathtubs?
I think they need to spice things up a bit and get rid of that unfortunate brand problem: they should start calling themselves the Gorilla Maskers.
Grover Norquist is the equivalent of the 'c' word
What a douchebag.
HELLO I AM VERY INTERESTED IN YOUR SUMMER. PLZ P/M ME!!!!!!!!!!!1!
your outrage plays right into grover's hands. he's the stone-cold teabaggin puppetmaster.
Man quit wastin' my flavor.
That guy had a message that apparently "the Man" doesn't want us to hear.
Damn the man.
but teabagger has a better ring to it than ignorant fucksticks…what's the problem?
What's a carpetbagger?
Norquist, huh? Sounds like a fucking Swede to me. And everyone knows what a bunch of commie fucks and dancing queens they are over there.
yeah WE KNOW what that BRIGHT RED DALA-HORSE really means, don't we. "Var Sa God"… what'd they teach you that at COMINTERN?!!!