What Teabagging Is

 

 

After I made reference to it in my last post, a friend asked me what “teabagging” is.  Teabagging was the name originally given a series of anti-government stimulus package protests set for Tax Day, April 15th.  The protests were said to be grass roots in nature but it turned out big right wing money was at work behind the scenes and the Faux News Channel—a latter day propaganda machine of which Joseph Goebbels himself would be proud—played it up big time.  But, to the chagrin of the right, the term “teabagging” had a different (read: sexual) meaning which rendered the title (see picture above) nothing more than a joke, and a dirty one at that.  It took the right a few days to catch on but once they did, the Teabagging protests were renamed “Tea Parties.” 

Those of us on the left thought the original was much more in line with how the right actually thinks—or actually, fails to think—and was, besides, way, way funnier.  So the name has, for us, stuck.

Here’s some material I found it at Teablogging.net which I originally stole, I mean posted, back in April either on the day of the teabaggings or on the day after…

 
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What is Teabagging?

We’re not sure exactly. Well, there’s that definition. But in the context of the Tax Day Tea Parties, Teabagging seems to allude to an amorphous set of conservative, libertarian, rationalist and vaguely anarchist sentiments held by Fox News et al. If you have a more concrete definition of Teabagging, please, let us know.

Why “Teablogging”?

Because you have to teabag the conservatives before they teabag you.

How’d this all get started?

See, back in February, after American Capitalism had been utterly destroyed by four whole weeks of the Soviet Obama Administration, some guy named Rick who nobody had ever heard of went on scion of business journalism CNBC and sort of lost his shit. Somewhere in the midst of the sweating, frothing, and arm-waving, Rick mentioned the Boston Tea Party, and a movement was born.

Really?!

Yes, really.

So should we go to these Tea Parties, or what?

You can. Huffington Post is looking for Tea Party Reporters. Or, if you’re one of the handful of Productive American Capitalists who’s fortunate enough to be still be employed, you could go to your job that day. If not, just get drunk at home, alone, as usual.

Now, the teabagging, ur, Tea Party movement scheduled Independence Day, July 4, for another series of nationwide protests.  That’s why I asked in my last post if anyone had “gone teabagging.”  Not many did, apparently.  I heard a news report that about two dozen had shown up in Washington, D.C.  (300,000 can show up to protest an illegal war and it doesn’t get a peep from the ha, ha, “ left wing media”, but 20 people show up for reasons which remain altogether unclear to the rational among us and that’s good for some airtime but I digress.)  Here’s a picture from the D.C. “protest”:

 

So, there you have it.  A quick look at what teabagging was and is.  I hope you found it useful. 

Best Wishes,

Richard