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Who You Calling a Tea Bagger?

By Mark H. Astarita, Esq.

Apparently President Obama is quoted in a book referring to the supporters of the Tea Party Movement as "tea baggers" and the right is having an absolute fit, claiming the term is disgusting and inappropriate. The feigned outrage is simply amazing.Please. Let's be honest here. The reason the term has become so popular is that it is demonstrative of the complete lack of understanding. The joke has always been on Fox News - where anchor after anchor used the term "tea bagger" in supportive pieces, and never had a clue what the term meant. The mocking was directed at Fox News, and reporters and anchors who were so eager to support anything that was anti-Obama and so out of touch, that they had no idea that the term referred to a sexual act.It wasn't only Fox News who used the term, the tea baggers themselves used it to identify themselves well before any "liberal" used the term...continue to full post

Full post as published by SECLaw.com on May 05, 2010 (boomark / email).