Playing The Crazy Card
I generally keep away from dumb political stances by celebrities since that's not their area of expertise, so who cares. Still, this statement by Janeane Garofalo on the Tea Parties is breathtaking in its stupidity and hatred.
Let's be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It's not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don't know their history at all. It's about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.
Here is where I should comment further, but I really can't top that.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:25 AM
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What most astounds me is that in the midst of her hatred and vitriol, she still feels compelled to make the sex joke. You'd think that after a week of the same sex joke, the left would grow tired of it. I guess not.
Anderson Cooper, who's an actual CNN anchor, not some silly Hollywood celebrity, said "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging". Maybe people like New England Guy find that amusing, but it's really got no place on the air. Imagine if he started calling reporter Rick Sanchez "Dirty Sanchez." Would his bosses think that's okay?
The "left" is responsible for the sex joke?
Poor advance planning. Not tapping into actual concerns and having a movement that looks like a haven for all of the electoral losers from the last election would seem to be why this thing flopped
I just figured out I hadn't heard the word "teabagging" used in a sexual connotation since I got my AIDS awareness pamphlet mailed to me by Ronald Reagan (OK maybe it was Dr. Koop) in the mid 80s. I wanted to thank these guys for keeping me up on the jargon.
For the record, I have never knowingly found anything said by Anderson Cooper to be amusing (who is he again?- I try not wath cable news)
The thing flopped? It was a roaring success. The Left, out of touch since this is the very issue that got Obama elected--was incredibly angered by anyone daring to complain that the government is spending us into oblivion while massively raising taxes at the same time. (They were also raising taxes at the same time they claimed it was important that the government put more money into the hands of the public.) That's the odd thing here.
As for the sex joke, yes, the Left made it, it has nothing to do with the tax protests otherwise. I know Anonymous #2 doesn't get this, and it seems neither does New England Guy.
Anderson Coooper is a well-known anchor at CNN. (His mother is Gloria Vanderbilt, btw.)
The point is that there was what seemed to be a relatively successful (and novel) nationwide protest about a central issue of our time, and a large portion of the media chose to either ignore it, downplay it or mock it.
The Daily Show's coverage was pretty good, and funny. Go to their website and in the middle section click on "Nationwide Tax Protests". They mostly mock the cable stations taking sides.
Three years ago, Fox, MSNBC, and CNN at least pretended to be impartial....
If anybody wants an eyewitness account, I attended about 50 minutes of the Denver Tea Party. I thought it looked pretty successful, with 5000 estimated in attendance. But then, I haven't been to a protest since 11th grade, when I marched with an angry crowd shouting for the ouster of the Shah of Iran. When the shouts turned to calls for his death, that's when I decided I wasn't a "protesting" kind of guy.
I think of teabagging as more of a frat prank than a sex technique. The idea is that you take a photo of your drunk friend with your boys on his face, no? I mean, I'm sure there's some repressed sexuality going on there, but it's not really overtly sexual.
By the by, anon. 1's comment that the left is "incredibly angered by anyone daring to complain that the government is spending us into oblivion while massively raising taxes at the same time." This is, I presume you're arguing, worse than spending us into oblivion while NOT raising taxes to pay for it? Is that the preferred course of the tea party crowd, or is it more akin to classic libertarianism?
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