Good news: Obama using the word “teabaggers” now
posted at 4:46 pm on May 4, 2010 by Allahpundit
Doubtless the defense here will be that The One wasn’t aware of the sexual connotation and therefore had no idea that the term offends tea partiers. Funny thing, though: Offhand, I can’t recall a single instance of him saying “teabaggers” publicly. Not in speeches, not in interviews, not at town halls, not even at that fundraiser a few weeks ago when he goofed on protesters by saying they should be thanking him for cutting their taxes, i.e. for running up gigantic deficits. If he doesn’t know the term’s impolitic, how come he hasn’t innocently used it on camera yet?
He knows. They all know.
In Jonathan Alter’s “The Promise: President Obama, Year One,” President Obama is quoted in an interview saying that the unanimous vote of House Republicans vote against the stimulus bills “set the tenor for the whole year … That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party to where it now controls the agenda for the Republicans.”
Tea Party activists loath the term “tea baggers,” which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.
How many prominent Democrats, I wonder, have yet to use “teabagger” in one form or another? Kerry and Schumer both used it in fundraising e-mails to appeal to the lefty base before the Massachusetts special election, and we’re bound to hear it again as the rhetoric ratchets way down before the midterms. Can it be that … Joe Biden is the tactful elder statesman on the left these days?
A lot of people are e-mailing to remind me that Obama was blathering about civility just three days ago at the University of Michigan (“You can disagree with a certain policy without demonizing the person who espouses it”), but the truth is, he’s been blathering about it forever. The only thing more common these days than a liberal screeching about racism or Nazism is The One spouting platitudes about civility without ever calling his side onto the carpet. That’s a nice gig if you can get it.
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This descent into slimy, scatological partisan slander will lead me to calling Obama sleazebagger from now on.
Barack Hussein Obama: Sleazebagger-In-Chief.
profitsbeard on May 4, 2010 at 6:29 PM
Key West, it’s not lists…it’s one word or the other.
Schadenfreude on May 4, 2010 at 6:30 PM
Too good to stay on the bottom of row 2
Schadenfreude on May 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM
Aye-yi-yi!! If he is going to start using the term, we might as well be polite and break out the pudding for him.
Ace would so approve of that. ;-)
itzWicks on May 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM
This president definitely operates beneath his pay grade.
pjean on May 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM
LOL, this coming from someone who still steadfastly believes that Bill Clinton was a “good President”.
Del Dolemonte on May 4, 2010 at 6:31 PM
He does so much bottom-feeding that he’s become the mud.
Schadenfreude on May 4, 2010 at 6:33 PM
He behaved stupidly.
Disturb the Universe on May 4, 2010 at 6:34 PM
Allah,
The best way to get the White House’s attention, is every time the President or Gibbs uses that term, when you quote him, put in parens (Urban Dictionary definition: When someone places his ….) immediately after the words tea bagger.
They will scream, bloody murder.
Corky Boyd on May 4, 2010 at 6:36 PM
Ann: Couple, not all, of the Obama policies you admire are adaptations of Bush policy or what would have been his policy had he not used up his time. But, I’ll give you a couple others in that list. Still think, he’s generally tempermentally incapable of doing a good job over all. His decisions are too colored by his own ideology and personal agenda and massive ego…though perhaps becoming just a wee tad less so of late…not enough to instill confidence.
jeanie on May 4, 2010 at 6:38 PM
But there were so many that were honest. Oh well :o)
Key West Reader on May 4, 2010 at 6:40 PM
Why shouldn’t he call them teabaggers? As much as he whines about one-sided conservative news, you know that he wakes up to the Daily Kos, adds the Huffinton smears to his breakfast toast, and swills down the black tea of Media Matters.
If there’s anyone who is the poster boy for the Liberal echo chamber, it’s our Commie Prez.
The grand consolation in all this is that he knows his party is doomed this November. Pisses him off like you wouldn’t believe.
EMD on May 4, 2010 at 6:41 PM
I believe the word we’re all looking for to describe Obama is “Carpetbagger”
gordo on May 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM
I understand Barracky boys frustration; I’ve experienced some very unruly teabags in my life too.
Cybergeezer on May 4, 2010 at 6:44 PM
Yea!
Like the blacks who sold their own in the slave trade.
Cybergeezer on May 4, 2010 at 6:47 PM
Obama utters the t word.
Mojave Mark on May 4, 2010 at 6:52 PM
When words gets around, if it does, about this a lot of folks are going to be turned off by it. It’s not something a sitting president should even think about saying. Even if he didn’t understand the connotations it will look bad because many simply won’t believe him. Very few Americans want their Prez engaging in this sort of talk. What was last weeks argument about ‘respect for the office’?
jeanie on May 4, 2010 at 6:59 PM
B. Hussein is a scumbagger.
Cicero43 on May 4, 2010 at 7:28 PM
.
Franklin Marshall Davis, Donald Young, and Larry Sinclair notwithstanding.
mrt721 on May 4, 2010 at 7:38 PM
You can bet that Frank Marshall Davis taught Obama about teabagging long before this Tea Party showed up…
Karmi on May 4, 2010 at 7:52 PM
Obama spoke stupidly… Again…
/s
Khun Joe on May 4, 2010 at 8:02 PM
civility: the right caving to the demands and idioc
eology of the left.racism: the right not caving to the demands and idioc
eology of the left. Synonymous with Nazism.ted c on May 4, 2010 at 4:50 PM
fixed 2-fer
cableguy615 on May 4, 2010 at 8:18 PM
Why is anyone surprised by this? The Dems have always been involved in sex scandals (Massa, Barney Frank, etc)that’s all they think about.
flytier on May 4, 2010 at 8:52 PM
Is the president insinuating that his political opponents engage in a gay sexual act that involves inserting ones scrotum into another persons mouth? Is that what he means when he uses that term?
ted c on May 4, 2010 at 9:00 PM
Obama and his merry band of fools are becoming desperate and give little thought to the rationality or validity of their ramblings.
rplat on May 4, 2010 at 9:01 PM
I went to the White House e-mail site and invited that poor excuse of a human to call me a “teabagger” to my face.
MNDavenotPC on May 4, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Our “Urbane and Nuanced” President at his finest.
khacha on May 4, 2010 at 9:04 PM
Is the president familiar with this practice of teabagging? Does he understand that it is potentially an unsafe act that could result in poor health outcomes that would drive up costs associated with obamacare? It could lead to dental problems as well, possibly temporomandibular joint disorder or TMD. I wonder if he knows if that is covered under Obamacare? Does anyone else know.
ted c on May 4, 2010 at 9:07 PM
That was clever.
You may have visitors soon.
David2.0 on May 4, 2010 at 9:09 PM
You’re right Allah, he’ll plead ignorance because it’s what he’s good at, it’s what he does.
We can Teabag his a$$ right out of office come election day.
Geronimo on May 4, 2010 at 9:13 PM
The next time they re-run The “South Park” episode
“La Petit Tourette” listen to Cartman’s words very carefully and you will hear “Mexican stinky balls.”
Pelayo on May 4, 2010 at 9:14 PM
Substitute “Jews” for “tea baggers” and I think we can figure out where The One’s coming from on this matter.
Can’t shake this feeling that these Leftists are not merely looking at this as one term at a time the way the Democrats of old might have done…they are looking far into the future and are doing all they can to create an environment and implement the various apparatus needed to rule out conservatism (“counter-revolutionaries” in their view) forever.
Communists don’t believe that a society can make a major change from one historical-economic-social era to the next without drastic measures, revolution and bloodshed.
We are leaving the era of Capitalism and entering into the era of Socialism. The era of Communism will be the final step. Guess we’ll just have to sit around and look at each other as our Republic is dismantled.
Maybe if we had taken Communism a little more seriously decades ago rather than pretending they didn’t exist here in any meaningful numbers…maybe if we hadn’t fallen for their Hollywood/TV/media brainwashing…maybe if we had been as concerned with the welfare of our Country as we were for ourselves…maybe if we had been less spoiled and felt less entitled…maybe if we had encouraged our Conservative youth to become more educated and compete with the Marxists in Academia, journalism and politics…maybe if we had paid more attention to what they were doing behind the scenes and less to the damn ball games and car races…maybe if we had lived more as our great grandparents did and clung to their values and God as we cling to our 401Ks now…
“We will bury you!”-Nikita Khrushchev
Dr. ZhivBlago on May 4, 2010 at 9:16 PM
You know how when a dude is going to rob you, he lies first. He says, hey, what time is it? Hey I just want to know what time it is. Then when he’s got you to slow down, distracted he says gimme your money chump.
Trust me, I know first hand.
Similarly, Obama as a street thug says hey, I’m a healer, a great uniter. Listen up, I’m here to heal you. Then when he’s got your attention he says, listen up, teabagger, do what I say and I won’t hurt you, got it teabagger?
I knew he was a thug. I’m just surprised at how quickly the mask came off.
jeff_from_mpls on May 4, 2010 at 9:21 PM
It’s really okay, I’ve been calling him a lying self-centered incompetent sack of **** for years.
Merovign on May 4, 2010 at 9:23 PM
I never, ever thought I would see the day when a sitting President would have such disdain for his own citizens.
Please, God in heaven, let the truth out soon. We know this human being is as crooked as the day is long. Please, please, let the truth come out.
Amen.
Grace_is_sufficient on May 4, 2010 at 9:29 PM
Thin skinned, inexperienced, narcissistic, possibly insane; inappropriate, uneducated in ways of the World, dope smoking idiot, unfeeling, disinterested, elitist, deserter of many, disappointment, liar and fool; a deceiver, a man of many faces and masks; man that cannot speak without being prompted. A complete and total disaappointment and disaster of a human being who fooled 52 Million people. A shameful man who will one day meet his maker.
OK, it’s not a line by line list. It’s a sentence of Truth.
Key West Reader on May 4, 2010 at 9:44 PM
That’s ok, he and the dems will be doing some major tea-bagging come November.
ray on May 4, 2010 at 9:45 PM
no…they will get tea-bagged. There IS a difference, and it’s much better to be the “-er”, than the “-ee”, IMO.
Fighton03 on May 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM
Nice try.
Key West Reader on May 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM
David 2.0
I’m not the least afraid….seriously.
MNDavenotPC on May 4, 2010 at 9:58 PM
You know, when my Dad was still alive he had an old saying for people like you that like to provoke the masses. You see, my Dad was just an old Hippie that played handball in the park, he was a Live and Let Live kind of guy. Every once in awhile he’d encounter peeps like you, and he always had this song to sing: “Were you Born to be An >>>>>>>
Key West Reader on May 4, 2010 at 10:03 PM
Obama Teabagged.
You can click on it. It’s not disgusting.
Whadya think I am, the president?
justltl on May 4, 2010 at 10:11 PM
Why oh why do I have this sense some of us are being baited…
this noncommittal statement is offensive on its face…
The man knows of what he says and infers on its face…
Grow a backbone and call a spade a spade AP…
jerrytbg on May 4, 2010 at 10:15 PM
Obama’s a jerk!
MCGIRV on May 4, 2010 at 10:22 PM
Obama Calls Opponents “Teabag People” | The FOX Nation
Nov 9, 2009 … Obama Calls Opponents “Teabag People”. In an odd coincidence, the House debate on Saturday to overhaul health care took place on the third …
http://www.thefoxnation.com/obama/…/obama-calls-opponents-teabag-people
OxyCon on May 4, 2010 at 10:23 PM
I knew this… but when I clicked…it came up “unavailable”…
AP…is that your defense? “I DON’T RECALL”…
Grow a backbone…oh wait…you got a new boss…sorry dude.
jerrytbg on May 4, 2010 at 10:44 PM
This guy is embarassing….
therightwinger on May 4, 2010 at 10:46 PM
Lots of elitists think they’re being clever when they use derogatory terms with multiple meanings.
It’s like he thinks it’s some sophomoric joke & by telling it with a straight face, he thinks we’re all too dumb to get the connotation & if you call him on it, he’ll innocently feign ignorance.
BO is the worst mistake America has ever made.
I hope it isn’t the end of us.
Badger40 on May 4, 2010 at 10:54 PM
he knows who jayz, snookie?, the situation, and all kinds of other hollywood jackasses or rappers…he knows what this means.
ted c on May 4, 2010 at 11:00 PM
justltl – That is the .b.e.s.t.e.v.e.r. I LOVE THAT!
conmo on May 4, 2010 at 11:00 PM
Here’s an SLN sketch that they won’t have the balls to do, too “edgy”
Have their Obama impersonator explaining to two young girls like his daughters what is “Teabagging” and why it’s a good thing.
DSchoen on May 4, 2010 at 11:06 PM
I don’t understand why more are not calling this out…
The fabric of our nation is being beaten on the stones of the Rio Grande …
Grow some f’en balls…
Did I give up having children in the defense of this Country to see it washed away…hell no!
And when I turn in the illegal’s here is FL…I get laughed at…errrrrrr….
jerrytbg on May 4, 2010 at 11:09 PM
I was thinking “dirtbag”.
justltl on May 4, 2010 at 11:10 PM
Thank you, conmo.
I appreciate it.
justltl on May 4, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Your father is Denis Leary?
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2285829452014333467#
ray on May 4, 2010 at 11:11 PM
Personally, whenever my liberal friends say “teabagger” in my presence, I work in a reference to “Obama fellators” in the next sentence.
If they don’t get the hint, the next time they say it, I do it again.
It tends to work.
tigerinexile on May 4, 2010 at 11:19 PM
Who gives a flyin fig what this Pinnochio says?
This fraud claiming to be the first black president has tarnished the office of the Presidency and has ruined the term First Black President through his fraudlent claims, his gross incompetence, his childish manners and his abject lack of class and decorum.
I feel sorry for real black people that this fraud has occupied the Peoples House instead of a competent and classy real black man.
This lying frauds’ words mean nothing to me.
dhunter on May 4, 2010 at 11:21 PM
Comedic aside …you missed the point….
Know that I have, and will continue to defend your right to do so…
Peace.
jerrytbg on May 4, 2010 at 11:24 PM
If only he was black…He tarnishes the name of MLK.
jerrytbg on May 4, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Are you sure?
ray on May 4, 2010 at 11:27 PM
I’m starting to think this guy is slap out of his mind. It’s just one incident after another of ASTONISHING stupidity.
What does he think the response to calling concerned Americans “teabaggers” is going to be?
If he’s an underground Republican then he’s the best one EVER!!! I can’t imagine how the GOP could cause more damage to Democrats than their inept leader manages to do on a daily basis. How long will it be before the rats start jumping overboard?
Murf76 on May 4, 2010 at 11:27 PM
Incident 823470932857 of “What if George W. Bush had allegedly done this?”
Even if there was absolutely no proof, he’d have been roasted on a platter.
mjk on May 4, 2010 at 11:36 PM
So it seems like civility is such a Big F—ing Deal after all, huh?
darii on May 4, 2010 at 11:45 PM
The logical question might be, how does the President benefit from a GOP landslide?
Speakup on May 4, 2010 at 11:47 PM
Hey Ray,
Yes…Diversity is healthy… I may not abide to your sensibilities ….but this is America and I can tune you out a quickly as you can me…
Having said that I’m not advocating multiculturalism, that will be our downfall…assimilation is necessary.
Anything else?
jerrytbg on May 4, 2010 at 11:49 PM
Obama is an arse. And his arse image is growing like a monster pumpkin on super-fertilizers. Those things weigh a ton. Luckily they get harvested in the fall. I can`t wait for Obama to be harvested out of office in 2012. On the other hand he is linked to so many thugs and radicals and terrorists and acorns that of course there are grounds for impeachment. If he was a conservative . . . . with that much dirt he would never have been elected.
Go back to Chicago dirty president obummer! Or go organize Detroit, Bummer!
Sherman1864 on May 5, 2010 at 12:05 AM
Actually, it was at Obama’s very first meeting with the GOP, when Obama refused to accept any GOP ideas saying “I WON SO I TRUMP YOU”. Pelosi shut out the House GOP; the Democrats and Team Obama crafted the healthcare bill behind closed doors.
TN Mom on May 5, 2010 at 12:09 AM
So…let’s turn the tables on em…I for one am fine with being called a teabagger. I know what I am, I know what I do. Sure, I’d rather be referred to as a teapartier if I have to be labeled, but if they want to label us as teabaggers, embrace it. I’d um, (sorry Ed and Allah, trying to do this politely) rather, “go down” for something I believe in rather in retreating because someone calls me something I’m not.
Chewy the Lab on May 5, 2010 at 12:12 AM
One last thought Ray,
I’ve done some “work” out of the restaurant that cheeseburger was written in or about…
Some of the people that were there don’t have the same regard as your Dad had…sorry dude.
I AM NOT DISPARAGING YOUR FATHERS MEMORY…Dad’s are important.
jerrytbg on May 5, 2010 at 12:15 AM
Project much Barry?
PappyD61 on May 5, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Only because he once demonstrated the maneuver on Larry Sinclair.
I am so bad.
carbon_footprint on May 5, 2010 at 12:47 AM
Did anyone read this article in the Daily Mail? It really gets across the extent to which the left’s pact with the unions is capable of bringing an economy to its knees, by reminding people of the utter economic turmoil Britain went through in the 70′s largely because of the thoroughly selfish and myopic actions of the unions and the liberals who worship them. Frightening reading indeed. I was only a small kid in Britain when all this was going on but I still remember the strikes, the power cuts and the trash piling up in the streets.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1272540/PARALYSED-BRITAIN-The-time-hung-Parliament–chilling-parallels-today.html
Sharke on May 5, 2010 at 1:37 AM
Best post I’ve seen in awhile. Made my day, thanks.
long_cat on May 5, 2010 at 1:47 AM
“no…they will get tea-bagged. There IS a difference, and it’s much better to be the “-er”, than the “-ee”, IMO.”
it has to be better to be the ee, than the er.
think about that for a minute.
So the prez is putting down queers? That’s who the teabaggers are. Why no outrage from Barney?
Redteam on May 5, 2010 at 2:22 AM
A lot of sticks in the fire right now.
Am reading a lot about ‘what could the motive be?’ for this attempted bombing. Well, its the same friggin motive there’s always been plus now we’ve been blowing up their caves to hell and back. What do they mean ‘motive’? The motive is they hate our damn guts and we half-way have one in the Oval Office right now.
johnnyU on May 5, 2010 at 6:02 AM
A story about how I was “exiled” when I and other TEA Partiers civilly protested our liberal governor’s campaign speech and my comment to one who likes the teabagger word as apparently does our President.
A reply to my comment about the story:
Author: US Taxpayer
Comment:
I was there and the tea folks were trying to disrupt with their signs. These people had the right to protest, but NOT the right to disrupt. They were rude louts.
The tea Baggers use as their strategy the “ARGUMENTUM AD HOMINEM: An argument that attempts to disprove the truth of what is asserted by attacking the speaker rather than the speaker’s argument.” This is their standard mode of operation. They completely forget the HUGE increases that the former governor foisted upon us. A Flush Tax anyone?
My reply:
Anonymous US Taxpayer: You are entitled to your view point per the MD and Federal Constitutions; what you are not is civil or respectful when you call people “tea Baggers”, as you wrote. I assume you know the background of that moniker, so I will not go into its meaning. If you don’t, you should not use it; you just might call the wrong person that name who DOES know the meaning. I’ve been called worse, so I don’t really mind the name calling, but can I also assume you use the N-word to describe African-Americans; a name I was called last week in Bel Air for some stupid reason. I notice you hide behind anonymity, but that is your right and within the rules of the Dagger.
Take care, fellow citizen, and be safe.
and this snip about the word in a followup comment:
As to using it to describe someone or a group there is a thumb rule that goes like this: As with the N-word, or any other ethnic moniker, when used by an outsider directed towards an individual or group, it would be considered vulgar and disparaging, where as one inside the group using it usually is acceptable; somewhat related to their station in the group. Therefore, I suggest that a person who is a TEA Partier can use it to describe other TEA Partiers, although I wouldn’t since I personally see no good side of the word when labeling someone other than one who carries bags of tea, but with someone from the Left using it, it becomes vulgar and disparaging.
http://www.daggerpress.com/2010/05/03/omalley-visits-aberdeen-on-re-election-tour-amid-tea-party-protests/
amr on May 5, 2010 at 6:46 AM
Well, when the tea-partiers get to say “one-termer”, we’ll see who has the last laugh.
olesparkie on May 5, 2010 at 7:08 AM
You mean he dared to use the…gasp…”T” word?
Such class from the ruling classless.
Don L on May 5, 2010 at 7:09 AM
This is just his oral presentation of his adolescent habit of scratching his nose with his middle finger extended at good people. Children like this used to be sent to the principal’s office -today we make them messiahs and presidents….
Don L on May 5, 2010 at 7:13 AM
That does it, dammit!!
The Douchebagger-in-Chief has lost my vote!
Sweet_Thang on May 5, 2010 at 7:39 AM
Fan those flames, scooter. November will be here before you know it.
petefrt on May 5, 2010 at 7:40 AM
Sweet_Thang on May 5, 2010 at 7:43 AM
Come again?
The TEA movement started long before the “unanimous vote of House Republicans,”
It’s my opinion, the TEA movement created the unanimous vote… Not vice versa.
That said,
Were I a Black Man, I’d be careful about using a derogatory term ending with -gger,
if you get my drift.
franksalterego on May 5, 2010 at 8:06 AM
We are supposed to have respect for the office if not the man. It is hard, very hard. The guy occupying the office has absolutely no respect for those who chose not to vote for him and only a grudgingly small amount for those that did…
Then again, maybe he views the term tea bagger as one of respect that he learned from his childhood mentor?
crashland on May 5, 2010 at 8:08 AM
This guy disgraces the office of president of the united states and I’ll be glad when he’s president no more.
TrickyDick on May 5, 2010 at 8:15 AM
Nope, the logical question is how does a GOP landslide benefit Michelle’s children?
crashland on May 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM
I can’t watch or listen to him anymore. Did he also give “teabaggers” the finger while scratching his nose? Our Thug-in-Chief always gets a good laugh out of doing that.
Logic on May 5, 2010 at 8:16 AM
He’s wasn’t my president before (I’m white, not in a union, not a government worker, read my bible, carry) and he isn’t my president now. I don’t give a ratz-a what the a-hole says.
Onager on May 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM
He is still a fister As is any progressive. http://thepeoplescube.com/current-truth/teabaggers-vs-fisters-the-debate-is-over-t4536.html
womball on May 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM
Great posts all, lots of different material, will use some today in emails to friends.
Don’t stop spreading the Destroyers wisdom to your frenemies.
November!!!
PappyD61 on May 5, 2010 at 8:22 AM
Just imagine the response if a conservative politician or commentator referred to liberals as “salad tossers”. I’m just sayin’. I’ll bet that BHO and every democrat across the spectrum knows that that term is offensive.
jarhead05 on May 5, 2010 at 8:31 AM
Let me count the ways…
tigerinexile on May 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM
Right. He’s a punk at heart.
I think this goes along with the affirmative action life he has lived — I think that deep down, he doesn’t have the self confidence required to function at this level without cheap shots.
Jaibones on May 5, 2010 at 8:45 AM
Classless vengeful POSOTUS.
royzer on May 5, 2010 at 9:10 AM
This vengeful little man, who many seem to think is the savior of the world, is going to be one who does us all the most harm.
Liam on May 5, 2010 at 9:18 AM
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