As the saying goes, we don’t know what’s in the man’s heart (and he certainly could’ve chosen his fifth grade humor better), but that might also explain the culture at MSNBC where people like Chris Matthews can play the race card and get away with it.
On Countdown in April of 2009, David Shuster talked about the “teabaggers” and went a little further…
Cavuto, defending his network‘s proportion of teabagging said, quote, “We are going to be right in middle of these teabaggers, because at FOX, we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests. We were there for the Million Man March.”
Can we roll that footage, the FOX News coverage of the Million Man March backing in October of ‘95?
Of course, the Million Man March occurred, as NewsHounds.org points out, almost a year before FOX News was on the air.
We can only speculate why widespread teabagging made Cavuto think of the Million Man March, unless he got them confused with Dick Armey. And in Cavuto‘s defense, if you are planning simultaneous teabagging all around the country, you‘re going to need a Dick Armey.
Now, let’s be honest here. As with teabagging, David Shuster introduced another sexual entendre. Granted Dick Armey’s name was brought up earlier in his Countdown monologue, but to follow up by implying that Cavuto got a million black men confused with a “dick” army is something the NAACP, Jesse Jackson, and Al Sharpton would launch a boycott over had it been said by a conservative or someone at Fox News.
And David, is there something in your head that associates black men with dicks?
–Relax and ignore the troll, if you can, fboiteau, it is just trying desperately to use Alinsky is all.
30 years of voting as a Republican and voicing a contrary view does NOT make me a troll. Never even heard of Alinsky, but have noticed that too many people have been using him as sort of “Mao-like or Marx-like” figure in the liberal/left playbook.
Sometimes it is hard to believe that the Left-Right conversation is between Americans as they both seem childishly inflexible with their views.
AS far as Teabagging – until all of the fuss this spring never knew there was an alternate definition. Pissed because now both sides have ruined the enjoyment of a good cup of tea!
My take is that this movement is going to go the way of the other 3rd party movements and at best disrupt either the Republicans or Democrats.. the former in 2012 and the latter in 2010… net sum, more gridlock…
Anyone who does not have a friend in all of the myriad of races, ethnicities, nationalities, etc. of this world is racist.
I would venture a guess that you are all racists. Every last one of you Homo sapiens. Especially the ones who emphasize groupings over the individual. Why the psychotic obsession with pigeonholing everyone?
There, it had to be said.
fboiteau, the term was first used by Anderson Cooper.
Relax and ignore the troll, if you can, fboiteau, it is just trying desperately to use Alinsky is all.
And it ain’t workin’…
Teabagging was not coined by anyone in the Tea Party movement.
I can’t recall who coined it but Jeneane Garofalo was certainly one of its first users, and certainly one of the loudest.
Im really sick of the left not giving me the benefit of the doubt that im NOT a racist. So I shall not afford them the same courtesy. The high road is over rated and ill wager saul alinsky is a big fan of other people “taking the high road”.
Hes on MSNBC? Racist.
I think that as long as these morons on MSNBC and other venues (Janeane comes to mind) continue to use the derogatory and gutter mouth (though becoming sophomoric in its over-usage) term to describe a whole range of people from grandmothers (like me) to 20 somethings, and from men women and children of all ages and ethnicities who attended Tea Parties and Townhalls in opposition of this current administrations policies (and of the prior in some cases) then yes, Bob should continue to post each and every one of them.
–And David, is there something in your head that associates black men with dicks?
…ah, they’re men…? Actually think the Dick Armey comment is pretty funny and far from being racist, if you “axe” me…:)
Bob, better question is, why are you so seemingly obsessed with “teabagging”? At least once a week you have some news story about somebody “slurring” somebody by using that term…
Didn’t the “Teapartyiers” first self-identify themselves with that term ( wish I was a fly on the wall when they learned the street definition…:)?
Maybe yes, maybe no. However, in *my* head is an association between David Shuster and the word “dick”.
Igor