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obama's notion of bi-partisanship is telling conservatives to shut up and do what he wants.
That sounds about right.....
Mrs Pepperpot is a lady who always copes with the tricky situations that she finds herself in....
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04-16-2009 05:33 AM
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Originally Posted by
YNKYH8R
Mmmmm no. In fact I never mentioned any of the following. You're drawing a conclusion based on one statement which was completely unrelated to what you wrote.
Rather than assume how I would feel why not ask how I feel?
Ok, how, exactly do you feel.
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.
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The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.
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For thousands of Americans, Tax Day was a moment to protest what they see as bloated budgets and a pile of debt being passed on to their children.
For CNN, MSNBC and other media outlets, it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to use the word "teabagging" in a sentence.
Teabagging, for those who don't live in a frat house, refers to a sexual act involving part of the male genitalia and a second person's face or mouth.
So when the anti-tax "tea party" protests were held Wednesday across the country, cable anchors and guests -- who for weeks had all but ignored the story -- covered the protests by cracking a litany of barely concealed sexual references.
CNN anchor Anderson Cooper interspersed "teabagging" references with analyst David Gergen's more staid commentary on how Republicans are still "searching for their voice."
"It's hard to talk when you're teabagging," Cooper explained. Gergen laughed, but Cooper kept a straight face.
MSNBC's David Shuster weaved a tapestry of "Animal House" humor Monday as he filled in for Countdown host Keith Olbermann.
The protests, he explained, amount to "Teabagging day for the right wing and they are going nuts for it."
He described the parties as simultaneously "full-throated" and "toothless," and continued: "They want to give President Obama a strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." Shuster also noted how the protesters "whipped out" the demonstrations this past weekend.
Tea Party participants were not amused. The events were held in dozens of cities across the country, and while some demonstrators were criticized for wielding off-topic and sometimes insensitive protest signs, most took to the streets to speak out against government spending.
Brent Bozell, president of the conservative Media Research Center, said the media coverage was "insulting," reacting specifically to CNN reporter Susan Roesgen's combative interviews with Illinois demonstrators in which she declared that the protests were "anti-CNN" and supported by FOX News. She left the teabagging jokes to her colleagues, though.
"I've never seen anything like it," Bozell said. "The oral sex jokes on (CNN) and particularly MSNBC on teabagging ... they had them by the dozens. That's how insulting they were toward people who believe they're being taxed too highly."
Max Pappas, public policy vice president at FreedomWorks -- a small-government group which promoted the tea parties -- said it's a "shame" media outlets cracked jokes at a genuine "grassroots uprising."
"I think what that reveals is how worried they are that this might actually be something serious. You make fun of things you're afraid of, I'd say," Pappas said.
If anyone thinks the orally charged remarks on mainstream cable were just a coincidence, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's segments over the past week with guest, Air America's Ana Marie Cox, would dissolve all doubt. Their on-air gymnastics, dancing around the double entendre of the week, looked like live-action Beavis and Butthead.
By one count, the two of them used the word "teabag" more than 50 times on one show. And on Monday, Cox even let the viewers in on their joke -- referencing Urbandictionary.com, a site which offers a number of colorful definitions for the term "teabagging."
"Well, there is a lot of love in teabagging," Cox said. "It is curious, though, as you point out, they do not use the verb 'teabag.' It might be because they're less enthusiastic about teabagging than some of the more corporate conservatives who seem to have taken to it quite easily."
Jenny Beth Martin, a Republican activist who helped organize one protest in Atlanta, said she's not too worried about the protests being dismissed by some media outlets. She estimated 750,000 people attended more than 800 protests in all 50 states, and that at the very least the local media and community newspapers documented it.
"Our message definitely got out where it needed to get," she said.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009...t-house-humor/
The oil is all in Texas, but the dipsticks are in D.C.
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I didn't know Anderson Cooper was gay!!! Learn something new everyday. HMMMM
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Anymore people are realizing that fox news is the only news they can trust.
The ratings are beginning to show it too.
By the way YNKYH8R what is your signature supposed to be.
It really makes me personally think you are showing disrespect for someone and it doesn't really help your credibility if you know what I mean.
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I wanted to share a picture from the local tea party here in Moses Lake. I love the little ones sign!
They were at a park at a main intersection across the lake so they got a LOT of attention!
Be who you are and say what you feel, those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Originally Posted by
tngirl
Anderson's comment was totally uncalled for. And what the heck were the CNN ladies talking about? I think they must have been listening to the voices in their heads instead of the people on the street.
The CNN 'reporter' (used in the loosest sense of the word) couldn't understand why folks would be upset that the gov is slapping a 36,000 bill onto every man, woman and child in this country 'cause they were getting a 400 tax credit for 2 years lol
Someone needs to revisit second grade math!
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Originally Posted by
stresseater
And they probably didn't have a union to tell them it was ok to picket. LOL
And ACORN didn't charter a bus to get us there!
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Originally Posted by
YNKYH8R
I'm not saying that they can't or shouldn't voice their opinions. I'm just saying that (unless they took the day off) they spent time picketing and not working.
Wonder how many people that picketed and threatened AIG employees went back to work the next day?
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More Tea Party Photos
Filed under: BCR, Tea Party — BCR at 3:56 pm on Thursday, April 16, 2009 Edit This
I set up an online folder for the tea party photos from yesterday.
Memphis
Fayette County
Haywood County
If readers have other photos they wish to share, then forward them and I will add to the collection.
bcr@bluecollarrepublican.com
I am still trying to absorb what happened yesterday. It was something I was proud to have been a part of and was a beginning of something, not the end. I look forward with both fear and anticipation to the ultimate outcome of all of this. But you guys did it! One of the largest mass protests in the history of America. The media is reporting 300,000 across the country, but after my repeated experiences with the media’s counting yesterday, that means there was around a million of you out there. That does not include those of you who participated in the drive-by horn attacks. The upcoming Independence Day may well be just that!
It is the Right of the People to Alter or Abolish Government
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