Video: David Shuster can’t get enough of teabagging
posted at 5:35 pm on April 14, 2009 by Allahpundit
This makes not one, not two, but three segments in primetime to which MSNBC has devoted the fine art of the teabag pun, thereby proving that, despite the Foxies’ best efforts, FNC’s actually not the most biased network when it comes to tea-party coverage. Try as I might to manufacture some phony outrage at this display the way Shuster would surely have done if it aired on Fox, all I can muster is boredom — and grim amusement at the thought of what sorts of innuendo Olby would be lobbing at O’Reilly had he indulged in such idiocy. Still, give Shuster credit for the Dick Armey joke at the end. Sounds like he worked pretty hard on that one. Click the image to watch.
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Nothing like refreshing the page and reading Shuster and Teabagging. Throw in a Barney Frank and my whole night is shot. Thanks AP.
robblefarian on April 14, 2009 at 5:36 PM
I’m having a hard time distinguishing between The Daily Show and MSNBC now…well, the Daily Show is slightly less biased, but other than that, nothing.
AUINSC on April 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM
I’ll bet.
HornetSting on April 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Classy.
Y-not on April 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Yeah, it’s the MSM libs little way of trying to diminish the impact of the Tea Parties.
To the libs, Tea Party is commensurate with golden shower.
carbon_footprint on April 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Allah, will you tea bagging?
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Me thinks he has a fetish for tea-bagging…he should get together and hang out with “leg tingles” and Barney Fwank…if he doesn’t already!
Liberty or Death on April 14, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Who is going to tea bag tomorrow?
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
The only reason I can think of for MSNBC’s “tea-bagging” spree of despair, is their own personal war against FOX News (who we know are promoting and giving much air time to the tea parties) and their perceived war fighting for the Left.
Personally, I can take or leave these tea parties. Even if millions were to show up, it wouldn’t change anything. But kudos to those who do go. Unfortunately, it’s a work day. But the tea parties are a good way to vent some anger.
JetBoy on April 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Allah once again does his job of passing on left-wing ridicule and talking points. Do you ever post anything that PROMOTES the conservative cause ever? What has Meghan McCain been doing today? Is it something that will qualify as QOTD?
echosyst on April 14, 2009 at 5:39 PM
Funny Shuster would talk about “Tea bagging”, because you need balls to do it, which Shuster does not. However Rachel Maddow can talk about it all she wants…..
portlandon on April 14, 2009 at 5:41 PM
There’s a reason shuster got replaced in the 6pm time slot.
therightscoop on April 14, 2009 at 5:41 PM
Schuster, Maddow, Olbermann, Stewart. What’s with the Jews in the media supporting a party who just gave $900 million to Hamas? I just don’t get it.
marklmail on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Jesus Christ. Like 8th graders giggling about “69″. The left giggling about tea bagging is equally as childish.
therightwinger on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Shuster has the look of someone who’s been teabagged … many times. Just look at that knowing smirk.
darwin on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
I’m getting the impression you don’t care for AP. Cuz no matter what subject he posts about, you inform us that you don’t care for AP.
AUINSC on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
The juvenile left can’t get enough of that term.
JammieWearingFool on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Who is it that keeps saying that the “grown ups” are in charge?
Cindy Munford on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Every time the left talks about raising the level of civil discourse in this country, I just want to laugh.
TheQuestion on April 14, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Video: David Shuster can’t get
enough ofteabagged enoughSoxNation on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Shuster’s a different kind of bag.
MadisonConservative on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Ahh come on, I am going tomorrow. Are you going to get out there?
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Does Shuster take off his glued on hair before he gets t-bagged?
americaslaststand on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Tim saved the bush depression.
The President rescued the privates.
The adults are in charge cons.
carbon_footprint on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
You mean TODAY?
Karl on April 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Town Square at noon; I’ll be there with bells on.
Hunt035 on April 14, 2009 at 5:44 PM
I am proud to say that I have quit smoking so my tax dollars there won’t fund that phony SCHIP program.
Hunt035 on April 14, 2009 at 5:45 PM
You mean tea bags right?
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 5:45 PM
He’s got the intelligence of a dime bag.
blatantblue on April 14, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Shuster’s a different kind of bag.
MadisonConservative on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Douche?
youngO on April 14, 2009 at 5:46 PM
HA! I’ll be there with
bellstea bags on.Hunt035 on April 14, 2009 at 5:46 PM
Going to two here in California tommorow. #teabag #teaparty
americaslaststand on April 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I have to work. Plus with only six weeks vacation I have to use my time wisely.
JammieWearingFool on April 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Well, it is mean…Fox, while ruining it for people and a movement, isn’t doing it to knock down a segment of our society.
tomas on April 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
I was thinking more along the lines of fluids or waste products.
MadisonConservative on April 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
Shuster is a scumbag.
carbon_footprint on April 14, 2009 at 5:47 PM
And people watch this?
lorien1973 on April 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
You never parse words. This I like.
blatantblue on April 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
Geez Jammie, can I have some of your vacation?
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 5:48 PM
proud to be one of the people who never watches PMSNBC
corona on April 14, 2009 at 5:50 PM
So pathetic, he can’t hold Glenn Beck’s jock up
Defector01 on April 14, 2009 at 5:50 PM
A person with the name Cox talking about teabagging…that’s funny.
Wyznowski on April 14, 2009 at 5:50 PM
I am attending a Tea Party in Oklahoma City and have recruited others as well.
It’s on the south steps of the State Capitol.
tru2tx on April 14, 2009 at 5:51 PM
Look, this is just an indication of how scared the left is of these basically grassroots protests. The left locking onto “tea-bagging“, a term they are using; no one else involved in the tea-party protests use the term, is right out of the Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals –
RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating.
.
Also, I, as an American, am very insulted by the left’s attack on our right to peacefully assemble. Can you imagine if FoxNews made fun of the “million” man march like MSNBC is doing about the tea-parties?
JeffVader on April 14, 2009 at 5:53 PM
You know one of these MSNBC people will slip up, pull this schtick on the Today Show and have to explain to the FCC that they were not aware of the phrase’s other meaning.
rw on April 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM
Just remember that if you ever have any questions about the practice of teabagging, MSNBC is the place to go.
They’re experts you see.
Grayson on April 14, 2009 at 5:56 PM
AP:
Allah, I have to ask, is there any topic (except perhaps evangelical atheism) that doesn’t elicit boredom from you?
Nessuno on April 14, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Here once again is an example of the right allowing the left to frame the debate… silly as it is.
What is happening is a Boston type “Tea Party” as basic to American politics as any concept. And yet the left has turned it into sleazy innuendo and there it goes…
The left is underestimating the depth and source of rage however, somehow they have convinced themselves that “corporations” (the forever bad guys…) are fueling anger.
I want my government to stop throwing away my future. I want government to be efficient and small–doing only those things I can’t possibly do for myself. I believe businesses (ie. corporations) are more to be trusted than government. Business motivations are upfront and simple. Government is about power hungry control.
It is not “tea bagging” people it is a Tea Party tax revolt.
petunia on April 14, 2009 at 5:58 PM
Just yesterday on <a href=”http://www.cracked.com/article_17251_10-coolest-foreign-words-english-language-needs.html”cracked.com I learned the definition of Backpfeifengesicht, and lo, today AP posts a screen cap of David Schuster mid smirk. Coincidence?
SteakRules on April 14, 2009 at 5:59 PM
Does Shuster take off his glued on hair before he gets t-bagged?
americaslaststand on April 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM
A can full of black shoe polish for Schuster. Golly, Dave, it’s hardly noticeable that you color your hair.
jdflorida on April 14, 2009 at 6:00 PM
AUINSC,
I’ve been complaining about doofpundit for a while now and saying he should be replaced. It’s not just echosyst.
TTheoLogan on April 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Colostomy
thomasaur on April 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Meghan, you should do a better job of explaining your jokes.
TTheoLogan on April 14, 2009 at 6:02 PM
I am so frickin sick of that term….. just knock it off… it’s humor jumped the shark two days ago… enough already
MNDavenotPC on April 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Yeah, I know. There are others too. But, I don’t even see the remotest grounds for criticism in his selection/commentary on this topic…
You don’t have to agree with him, but to blow a fuse every time he posts is over the top.
AUINSC on April 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Michelle has the skinny on the “Tea Party Crashers”
Hunt035 on April 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Shuster looks more like a sock puppet than a TV News personality. He’s the guy in school that got b***h slapped so often that his mouth doesn’t seem to work properly any longer. On top of that, I think a tea bag is considerably smarter than Shuster.
Star20 on April 14, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Man Mad., you sure attract the stalkers. ; – )
thomasaur on April 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM
Hey, what’d you say? I’ve been trying to read your posts for a few days now, but all I see is
“WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE”
blatantblue on April 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM
And somewhere, John Chancellor and David Brinkley look down and smile with pride…
Jim Treacher on April 14, 2009 at 6:06 PM
GE has received billions in bailout money.
Curiously, the Obama drones never mention the salaries at MSNBC and NBC – rabidly robotic DNC mouthpieces entirely owned by GE.
I wonder why?
TexasJew on April 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM
What are you, French?
JetBoy on April 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM
You know what I found to be most interesting about this? It was the Cavuto portion where they “quote” him as saying Fox was going to be in the middle of these [teabaggers].
Quick google search showed the transcript had Cavuto saying that Fox is “going to be right in the middle of these protests because at FOX we do not pick and choose these rallies and protests.”
Was there really a need to change the 2 terms? Couldn’t they have used “tax protests” as their term? Why am I surprised they’re drumming up outrage over their coverage of the “news”?
ExSubNuke on April 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM
But! Creator of Worlds!
You mistake teh genius of your overlords!
Surely you see the sublimals…..a return to juicy sexuality for the GOP!
An appeal to the youth demographic!!
Maggie Gallagher– National Organization for Marriage? nom nom nom…….2M4M.
Its all part of the Master Plan, dooonnntchan know.
strangelet on April 14, 2009 at 6:08 PM
That would be get-a-clue, my favorite troll target because he/she presents such an easy target to shoot down in flames!
Liberty or Death on April 14, 2009 at 6:09 PM
It’s not about agreeing with him. I don’t pay to use this site, so I don’t have any “rights” per se. I’m just voicing an opinion regarding him and his posts.
TTheoLogan on April 14, 2009 at 6:09 PM
So MSNBC is either scripted by 10 year old boys or its newsrooms are full of people who are personally familiar with being up close and personal to someone else’s male genitalia.
I guess that chick from Air America is doing teh shtick based on 3rd party information…unless they make plastic toys nowadays for the socially inept that are anatomically correct I suppose.
I try not to think too far down that line, however.
Asher on April 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM
Broken record.
TTheoLogan on April 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM
I’m going to a Tea Party, and will be damn excited to be amongst brethren. And hella lots of them too.
But I will admit that the agreed-upon subject of the Tea Parties (Taxes) is not the strongest reason that I want to protest (by FAR).
The biggest reason for protest (IMO) is 1) the radical encroachment by the new administration into our capitalist economy, 2) with little or no regard for the law as they do it, and 3) running a huge gamble of an experimental financial policy, based on 4) the notion that they were voted into office by a huge majority to make major changes.
52% does not give them the right to stomp all over us. I want to show them how big 48 percent really is.
Oh yes, and I want them to fail.
connertown on April 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM
Let me guess…Le Douche?
Liberty or Death on April 14, 2009 at 6:11 PM
I prefer loose tea steeped in those metal balls.
I think I’ll bring a pair of them tomorrow.
Let’s see the giggly fey Left lisp on that meme.
profitsbeard on April 14, 2009 at 6:12 PM
?? Few topics generate outright boredom in me. And even the ones that are boring become exciting when I think of writing for commenters like TTheo, who keep coming back to the site and reading my posts despite their professed contempt for them.
Allahpundit on April 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Speak for yourself, bro-dude.
Write another “doofpundit” post, I might just go commit seppuku.
blatantblue on April 14, 2009 at 6:15 PM
But then the inevitable “i need someone to behead me” situation arises..
damn.
blatantblue on April 14, 2009 at 6:16 PM
Congrats Hunt, not an easy thing to do. I quit for 12 years then started again about 5 years ago after going through a divorce. Not a good excuse I know and it’s pathetic that I started again after having quit for 12 years, but that’s life.
You’ve given me some inspiration to quit again, this time for good!
Again, congrats Hunt!
Liberty or Death on April 14, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Upinak
I posted on another thread, but I am going to the Tea Party in San Antonio. I will be at the Alamo from noon on, so that I can help out if possible, and get a good spot :)
catlady on April 14, 2009 at 6:18 PM
None of the Tea Party people are actually calling this “teabagging” are they? I don’t watch much cable news, so maybe I’m missing something, but did the left just start calling it “teabagging” out of the blue, purely for the juvenile humor?
DaveS on April 14, 2009 at 6:19 PM
If this is the best
liberalsprogressives can do, 2010 will be a GOP revolution like no other.pt on April 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I like you. I like how your mind works. Continue.
portlandon on April 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Shuster is the biggest ninny I’ve seen in a long, long time.
Shuster, you’re a ninny.
greggriffith on April 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Yup.
This also serves as case # 239939721182 of liberals engaging the right in the arena of ‘ideas’.
gwelf on April 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
I’ve been complaining about doofpundit for a while now and saying he should be replaced. It’s not just echosyst.
TTheoLogan on April 14, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Is your imaginary friend holding a gun to your head forcing you to click on Allah’s posts again? poor little love
SoxNation on April 14, 2009 at 6:20 PM
Think of the Children!##!@
Really though, congrats. You’ll feel better.
portlandon on April 14, 2009 at 6:21 PM
No, just have a lot of years at the same place with a good vacation policy. I’m allowed to carry time over, plus I get comp time for doing business on weekends.
I bust my ass, so I’ve earned it.
JammieWearingFool on April 14, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Only the left. They are ALL OVER THE TEABAGGING.
HornetSting on April 14, 2009 at 6:22 PM
JammieWearingFool on April 14, 2009 at 6:21 PM
You go!!
catlady on April 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Yeah, they had a Beavis and Butthead moment and have had their gaze on conservative teabaggers, hoping to join the party.
pt on April 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Bring a camera! You might see anti-tea bagging protestors!
Shhh, don’t tell Allah I like him too. He might get a big head!
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 6:24 PM
Nothing new. wise_man was far more formidable.
MadisonConservative on April 14, 2009 at 6:24 PM
gotcha! Busting butt and 6 weeks vacation. So, where do you see yourself for that 6 weeks? And who would run your blog? You would be missed!
upinak on April 14, 2009 at 6:25 PM
It’s obvious the no audience crowd is jealous.
tarpon on April 14, 2009 at 6:26 PM
They don’t make them like they used to. You got that mccainteabagger banned, didn’t you?
HornetSting on April 14, 2009 at 6:28 PM
Expect Daily Show coverage of the Tea Parties to be exactly like this, but with a white guilt ridden liberal reporter and the token black reporter.
Speedwagon82 on April 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Stop lying. The reason you aren’t going is because you would be surrounded by people who don’t like sodomites.
platypus on April 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM
Immature amateurs. Maybe it sells porn.
kirkill on April 14, 2009 at 6:29 PM
As with the Rachel Maddow video shown earlier, the humor is forced and repetitive. And it’s still unclear what the substance of their beef is with the tea parties (or the teabagging, as the MSNBC Style Guide insists).
Why all the fuss over this toothless right-wing fringe event?
On the humor front, these people embarrass themselves, since this kind of fare (in bigger and better portions) is served up nightly by Stewart and Letterman. I’m sure even the watercarrier Stewart cringes at this kind of stuff.
But it’s on the substance that this crumbles. I can’t tell if Schuster et all are willfully obtuse about the nature of these tea parties or if they simply don’t understand what’s going on. Or maybe they’re just spewing talking points from that other set of geniuses at the White House.
The American Left is syphilitic in its arrogance and ignorance.
EMD on April 14, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Rachel Maddow, who is actually Ron Reagan Jr. in drag, was the first to be all over teabagging.
HornetSting on April 14, 2009 at 6:32 PM
No doubt, you’ve earned it. That’s a really good vaca policy. I can carry over, but only for the next year. If I don’t use vaca/sick days up by then, they disappear.
Of course, that’s never happened…
JetBoy on April 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM
I can still blog from anywhere. Obviously much less if I’m away somewhere.
I take a couple of long vacations but in the summer I’m able to work longer days during the week and just use half vacation days and have off Fridays most of the summer. Then I just chill at the pool with my son, go fishing, stuff like that.
JammieWearingFool on April 14, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Allahpundit on April 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM
Thankfully, there is the Green Room, so I read fewer and fewer AP posts…
Truthfully, I only click on posts that look interesting, I don’t look at the author, but I usually know right away once I read the first sentence.
kirkill on April 14, 2009 at 6:34 PM
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