National Review Online admits conservatives coined ‘Teabagger’

NRO admits conservatives coined ‘Teabagger’

Conservatives are up in arms because a new book revealed that President Barack Obama once referred to Tea Party protesters as "teabaggers." But one publication on the far right has revealed that conservatives actually coined the term.

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Tea Party activists loathe the term "tea baggers," which has emerged in liberal media outlets and elsewhere as a method of mocking the activists and their concerns.

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It's true that liberals like Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have adopted the term as an epithet but National Review Online finds that the word was actually coined by conservatives.

The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it.

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann notes that this fact hasn't stopped right wingers from blasting Obama for using the term. "But this reference has not led the group to, you know, swallow their tongues about their incessantly phony outrage over the term. It`s led a T.P. supporter Melissa Couthier to describe the president as a flaming hypocrite. And just in case anybody missed the point, to illustrate her web post with an animated version of the act from which the tea baggers drew their nickname. Way to show the president what decorum looks like," said Olbermann.



More:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0507/nro-admmits-wing-coined-teabaggers/

Hat-tip to: http://twitter.com/MzYun/status/13556474733


See also:

Freepers weigh in on RentBoyGate while whining about "derisive homo-slurs like 'teabagger'"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=8290029&mesg_id=8290029

:evilgrin: all the more reason to constantly use it. Spread it everywhere like manure or salt That which causes them agida, makes my day!

go in the room where a couple engineers sit and bring up the latest crap the teabaggers are up to...

He doesn't like it much at all :rofl:

Once they got an urban dictionary, they tried to walk it back. I've had people here argue with me and tell me Rachel coined the term but I remembered 4/15 very well.

a thank you to the OP for using the 'correct' term Teabagger. Seems we had slipped into PC here on DU and were begining to call them Teapartier's.

I'll stop using the term "Tea-bagger", when every "stinkin'" Repub politician, radio hate jockey and wingnut talking head STOP using the term "Democrat Party".

How's that?

But I'll still use their choice of original term.

If they'll quit using the term "Democrat party," we'll keep calling them tea baggers. Fuck 'em, says I.

if it irritates them now, it's too late. I haven't seen the Republicans stop using the term "democrat" party. Teabagger just fits them and is descriptive. Works for me. And, I have no idea what any other meaning of the word is.

freerepublic.com

The same site that whines @ the term incessantly.

bwahahahaha!