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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-10 01:47 PM
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The Truth About Teabagging from Newsweek's "The Gaggle"
http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/03/02/the-truth-about-teabagging-is-the-term-offensive.aspx

All I can say is: Go Rachel! Go Rachel! GO Rachel!!!


Widespread offense at the term has led to 1,239 indecency complaints with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). In fact, the use of the word “teabagging” earned the second most indecency complaints on cable TV. Only cable-news giant CNN received more complaints for a rant by Jack Cafferty against China on an April 2008 broadcast of The Situation Room (2,273 people protested the show).

Over time, one of the biggest abusers of the word “teabagging” appears to be MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, who sarcastically asked in April 2009 if “teabagging” is “something that can be done alone.” Those types of remarks encouraged people to file more indecency complaints against the use of the term “teabagging” than both a "Girls Gone Wild" commercial and the MTV Video Music Awards, combined.

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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-10 01:50 PM
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1. Why do the self-named Teabaggers feel they need to go all Occult and shit
Edited on Wed Mar-03-10 01:54 PM by SpiralHawk
on their teabagging?

Is it because they are dropouts from republicon homelander occultism, and occultism is in their blood?

Teabaggers need integrity, to own their own truth:


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TalkingDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-10 01:53 PM
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2. Amen, brother-man
Balls to the walls!
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-10 02:04 PM
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3. Looking down the list,
I find it interesting that anyone would watch Nip/Tuck and Saving Grace and then complain about the content. There are advisories posted before and during both shows.

The "Moral Majority" strikes again...and they are probably going to hell for tuning in. :evilgrin:
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clu Donating Member (228 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-03-10 02:20 PM
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4. hehe
i have a co-worker who got one of the first runs of tea party stickers for her car. it has a tea bag on it. truth is stranger than fiction.
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