Jophiel wrote:
gbaji wrote:
(specifically Anderson Cooper and Rachel Maddow)
You're confusing Anderson Cooper for Keith Olbermann. Or vice versa. Or something. Anyway, you've got the wrong guy.
Huh? Nope. It was Anderson Cooper. He was one of the first to make a joke about it.
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The liberal media, to use a convenient tag, went after the protesters with glee. Take Anderson Cooper, the acclaimed anchorman for CNN. He was interviewing David Gergen, the political pundit. And Gergen was saying that, after two very bad elections, conservatives and Republicans were “searching for their voice.†Cooper responded, “It’s hard to talk when you’re teabagging.†He said this with a smirk.
The point is that all of this apparently started with one protester with one sign. That one sign is the *only* example of the phrase (and not as a label either) being used by a member of the Tea Party prior to the media taking off with it and making that the label. No member of the Tea Party labeled themselves this way until well after this happened, and then it was either as a joke, or because they didn't know what the phrase meant, but had heard supposedly mainstream media outlets use it.
Can we please stop pretending that it was dumb conservatives who called themselves this? The liberal pundits created it, applied the label, and then repeated it over and over and over and over and over until everyone else started using it. Then they sat back and laughed about it. The punchline is that conservatives didn't know any better when they chose that name for themselves, but the reality is that the same people handing out the punchline wrote the joke.
Edited, Aug 30th 2010 8:43pm by gbaji
