Bill Maher: New Rules for Teabaggers

[Skull Pilot]

Do you expect anything but hypocrisy from a guy who constantly tells us not to jump to conclusions but can then jump to a conclusion like "The police acted stupidly"?

 

[Si modo]

Why would or does the word 'teabagger' offend those who name call all the time? Witness the thread title. They are a not a party in any sense of the word, so let's call them, hmm, ' a fruitless mix of racism, and conspiracy,' as this fox survey shows? Would that work? Could we call them 'Conspiracy folk on medicare and social security?' Would that work. Maybe we need to have a contest on naming them. The name must include in some way their signs and years from now when Obama administration is passed, the name must still fit. After all they aren't just about Obama, right? Have at it, suggestions?

Teabagger Movement "Fruitless Mix of Racism, Conspiracy Theories" According to Fox News Poll | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central

And Gallup shows them as mainstream.

Obama shows no respect for the mainstream in America.

Cool, huh?

 

[California Girl]

What I fail to understand is how people can, with an apparent straight face, agree with Mayer and slam 'Faux News'. No wonder that the rest of the world says 'Americans don't get irony'.

 

[midcan5]

And Gallup shows them as mainstream.

If those signs reflect 'mainstream' America, we lost our way - or they did.

 

[Skull Pilot]

Like I said before.

I don't listen to the opinions of any man that my wife could kick the shit out of.

 

[Skull Pilot]

If a few signs define an entire range of people then we can label all you libbys because of the few who carried "Kill Bush " signs.

Oh the hypocrisy.

 

[Si modo]

And Gallup shows them as mainstream.

If those signs reflect 'mainstream' America, we lost our way - or they did.

If whatever signs to which you are referring reflected the Tea Party, you would have a point. We could play the game of protest-sign war again, though. That's always fun, in a pointless sense.

 

[VaYank5150]

Learn to Speak Tea Bag | Mark Fiore's Animated Cartoon Site

 

[VaYank5150]

I guess what Obama meant by 'civility' was 'shut the fuck up and do as I tell you'.

Either that, or simply go to the official TeaBagger website....jeez, you people are thick!
the New American Tea Bag Party: Tax Protest for Busy People

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Why would or does the word 'teabagger' offend those who name call all the time? Witness the thread title. They are a not a party in any sense of the word, so let's call them, hmm, ' a fruitless mix of racism, and conspiracy,' as this fox survey shows? Would that work? Could we call them 'Conspiracy folk on medicare and social security?' Would that work. Maybe we need to have a contest on naming them. The name must include in some way their signs and years from now when Obama administration is passed, the name must still fit. After all they aren't just about Obama, right? Have at it, suggestions?

Teabagger Movement "Fruitless Mix of Racism, Conspiracy Theories" According to Fox News Poll | Indecision Forever | Comedy Central

I don't know, ******, you tell me why people might find a word offensive?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Bill Maher and Jon Stewart have replaced Cronkite and Jennings as the Liberal Favorite anchormen

 

[NYcarbineer]

Conservatives could not be a bigger bunch of thinskinned pussies if they tried.

 

[Si modo]

Since when has the Office of the POTUS become so classless? It's quite sad.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Conservatives could not be a bigger bunch of thinskinned pussies if they tried.

Sho'nuff My Nigga!

 

[VaYank5150]

Since when has the Office of the POTUS become so classless? It's quite sad.

How is calling them by their chosen name, classless, exactly?

the New American Tea Bag Party: Tax Protest for Busy People

 

[drsmith1072]

Doubtless the defense here will be that The One wasn’t aware of the sexual connotation and therefore had no idea that the term offends tea partiers. Funny thing, though: Offhand, I can’t recall a single instance of him saying “teabaggers” publicly. Not in speeches, not in interviews, not at town halls, not even at that fundraiser a few weeks ago when he goofed on protesters by saying they should be thanking him for cutting their taxes, i.e. for running up gigantic deficits. If he doesn’t know the term’s impolitic, how come he hasn’t innocently used it on camera yet?
He knows. They all know.

In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”

Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.​

Hot Air Good news: Obama using the word “teabaggers” now

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Now As USUAL, Obama is right and wrong. The stimulus is part of what created the Tea Party. But it wasn't the Republicans being against it, it was the fact it was voted into law DESPITE people like me and you calling our Congressman and Senators and telling them NOT to vote for it, and they voted for it ANYWAY. Jerks!

Typical that Obama has it backwards.

But this is so typically liberals. Out of one side of his mouth he calls for "civility" and two days later calls us "tea baggers."

This reminds me of the liberal op who once demanded of me "in the interests of civility" not to use the word liberal. But not five minutes later, he called conservatives, KKKonservatives.

When I pointed out this hypocrisy, he was furious.

"Civility" to a liberal means YOU can't say anything critical about THEM. It doesn't mean they can't say anything they want about YOU.

After all, THEY, the all high liberal, are the elite and soooooooooooooooooooo above you. It's "uncivil" to criticize them.

YOU, however, are the plebes. You are the proletariat. YOU are the peasants. You can't expect the same civility demanded of YOU towards liberals to be directed back at you YOU.

YOU are a peasant and it's for your own "good" they call you every name in the book. Maybe you will finally see your eeeeeeeeevil ways and become liberal!!!!!!

The arrogance and pompous hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife.



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I thought the tea parties existed BEFORE the stimulus? Yet now you are claiming the stimuls is part of what "created" it. So which is it?

Furthermore, teabaggers called themselves teabaggers until they realized that it gave a different impression than they were hoping for. Now that they don't like the connotation that comes with the name they are whining and complaining about being called what they originally called themselves. Talk about hypersensitive.

I seem to remember tea baggers talking about "tea bagging" the white house. Don't you?

However, thanks for your usualy hypocritical and hyperpartisan rant to finish up your post as you try once again to tell everyone how liberals think based on your own biased and baseless opinions.

 

[drsmith1072]

I stopped changing the names of persons and organizations into something similar yet derogatory when I got promoted to second grade. I wanted to live up to my position at the time, I suppose.

If you have ever called obama a messiah or any other rephrasing of his name to be derogatory then how would you go about exlpaining away that contradiction?

 

[Si modo]

I stopped changing the names of persons and organizations into something similar yet derogatory when I got promoted to second grade. I wanted to live up to my position at the time, I suppose.

If you have ever called obama a messiah or any other rephrasing of his name to be derogatory then how would you go about exlpaining away that contradiction?

If is a good word.

 

[drsmith1072]

Since when has the Office of the POTUS become so classless? It's quite sad.

LOL I guess you were in a coma for the entirety of bush's presidency??

 

[Murf76]

Let's see Professor Barry use one of his gazillion TV appearances to explain to ordinary, concerned Americans like these.... exactly what that term means.

Note the riot police in the background. Those grannies look dangerous, don't they?