Teabaggers And Faggots, Oh My
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 at 07:31PM A political apology often looks like this one that came in two parts:
"It was a one-line wry comment that popped in my head, and I said it... You're on TV a lot of times and you end up saying things, and some of the things you regret and some you don't.
When you use a homosexual slur against someone in politics, especially someone who meant you no harm, sometimes you get caught and have to apologize – if you are smart.
Openly homosexual CNN star Anderson Cooper called Tea Party activists “teabaggers,” a homosexual slang term with which he meant to belittle them. He did it on air. He thought he was being cute and oh so hip in comparison to the mom and pop fly-over country folks he was taking a very cheap elitist shot at. Cooper brought up the homosexual aspect, not the Tea Party patriots. I doubt many of them know who he is. Check Cooper’s ratings and that should prove it.
Here is more of the Cooper apology: "If people took offense to that and felt that I was disparaging their legitimate right to protest, and what they were doing, then that is something I truly regret, because I don't believe in doing that... Having this discussion just takes away from, you know, the real story."
Actually, Cooper was trying to belittle and embarrass the Tea Party patriots as people from his ivory perch at CNN and the security of his wealthy family. It wasn’t about their right to protest. And Cooper’s inference that he supports that right offers slim cover for those of us who understand this dirty game of left-wing attacks.
Cooper apologized because of slack he received from other media not because of guilt. It was a short pop on the media screen he easily survived.
Facts are facts though and he did in fact apologize for his slander even though he tried to pass it off as something else.
So a week goes by and all is well for our left of center homosexual.
Here in NH we have a similar situation on the flip side with my friend Doug Lambert who called some reprehensible individual in the Democrat party, a faggot. The guy Doug called a faggot loves to call Tea Party Patriots teabaggers - you remember, the term Cooper apologized for.
Here is how this works for the liberals and militant homosexual lobby in the political sphere of brass knuckle attack/revenge science:
Doug, being conservative, will receive as much bad press as can be rallied by the liberal like-minded lobby in any form they can muster. The bad press is always swift, predictable, and longwinded. It has to be because victim hood is the “hood” liberals thrive in – they know little else. Victim hood never works for conservatives and I hate listening to them try to pry sympathy out of anyone using the old complaint, “Imagine what would happen if a conservative did that.” There is a proven, honored, double standard – get used to it.
And an instant “shame on you Doug” will let fly from the “Friends of Doug,” you know, the people in his own party or political interest group. This has several reasons for happening with absolute certainty: to gain favor with the “victim,” and as insurance they not be attacked themselves. Another disgusting reason “Friends of Doug” will abandon him is for his friends to gather up or get rid of any of the power structure Doug may have had a grip on.
But “shame on you Doug” doesn’t really work because the next instant step in victim hood is the next step up the ladder. The protectors of the victim ratchet up the counter attack and take aim at any perceived link to Doug they already had in their never relaxed sights.
In this recent case, the homosexual lobby has targeted the Republican Party Chair as being a Doug co-conspirator with a demand he apologize and/or denounce Doug, homophobia, anti-homosexual marriage beliefs, the hatred of Republicans – pick one or all, it never ends. It is the same old trick played over and over.
I for one feel Doug should have been smarter than to give the pudgy hate-filled victim in this case an opportunity to play the victim card along with all the other actors in his troupe because, quite frankly, they had little to cheer about until this gem appeared on their screen.
The victim’s Amen corner is upset because of their failures not because the victim was called a name. Catching Doug in an unguarded moment calling the Democrat Party paid hate monger a faggot was like hitting the political jackpot. Check out some of the video of the Dem Party Party Boy on YouTube in unguarded moments acting like a typical liberal.
I think Doug’s plight is a good time for NH Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porker to apologize for calling Tea Party Patriots a homosexual slur like teabaggers as Anderson Cooper had the smarts to do.
Rep. Carol She-Porker should man up and apologize if the Democrat Party Chair can’t.
Reader Comments (37)
You continue to represent the lowest behavior in politics.
So nice to see you slither out from under your rock to spew your ignorant venom. May you rise to become the spokesman for the NH far right fringe movement. It is great to put a face to the haters.
Complaining about the lowest behavior in politics? Is there any other level in this case?
By the way, until you mentioned it in this Blog a while ago, I never heard the term "teabagger" in the way that you have defined it, and I've been around on this planet about as long as you. I would wager that most people don't even know how the term is applied, at least in the way that you interpret it; but I sure know that for decades and perhaps longer, most know the "faggot" reference, and some have used it in the most cruel manner.
Jim, try yesterday?
Ed is a Democrat. The party already elevated their leader from the fringe.
But, I am not sure why you care about his behavior since NH residents have learned to live with the fact that Dems, including their leader, can get do anything, and get away without consequences.
Double -standard you know?
Mr. Splaine totally ignores the well-documented fact that Ray Buckley is the king of the double standard and routinely rails against people on the other end of the political spectrum, often with vile personal attacks.
Finally, the gay community doesn't really have a lock on the word "faggot." In the UK, the term "faggot" refers to a vile tasting meatball currently being marketed as "Mr. Brain's Faggots". Moreover, one of the advertising lines says, "It's no wonder 100 million faggots are eaten in the UK every year!" http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2112/how-did-faggot-get-to-mean-male-homosexual
A black Tea Party Patriot was beaten by several SEIU members for handing out Gadson, Don't Tread on Me flags. That videotaped incident has been on FOX News several times and still no prosecution of the union thugs.
I was jumped by five black guys in Phoenixville Pa. when I was 18. I had to have my nose fixed. My nose has had over the years 12 stitches in it from various events like:
I have had knives pulled on me three times, once by one of two white teen agers, once by one of three Puerto Ricans, and once by one of two brothers I was in a fist fight with - what is your point? Oh, I remember, your a "victim."
Grow up. You gladly send your Democrat Party Chair, Mr. Pantload, out to slander and attack anyone on the right. It is his stock and trade. He is paid by the Democrat Party to do it. Doug fell into a trap of taking the fat, greasy, lonely, selfabsorbed, bait you guys placed on the Rat Trap of NH politics.
That is the real story here and you know it.
Its not really nice to call your friend Doug "fat, greasy, lonely, selfabsorbed". Or were you talking about yourself? If you were, you should have included "mentally unbalanced" too.
You set up quite an interesting comparison between the "teabagger" comment and the "faggot" comment. As a matter of rhetoric, it holds together nicely; but as a matter of truth, you either (1) are knowlingly being intellectually dishonest, or (2) are simply ignorant. I am speaking specifically about your suggestion that 'teabagging' is a gay or homosexual term.
It is NOT. REPEAT: IT IS NOT. That charge has been made, rather cavalierly, all over the net; but it is false.
About 5 years ago, I was with a group of college students on a trip (I am a college Prof.) The subject of teabagging came up way back then. Oddly enough, as a gay man with a pretty broad sexual vocabulary, I had never heard of this term. When I returned later and asked my gay friends, thay had never heard of it either.
So I asked my Very-Hetero sudents about it, and they explained the term. It was never explained in a homosexual context - in fact, they explained it in a completely heterosexual.context.
This is not a 'gay term,' it is a YOUTH term, and most people over 25, straight and gay, were equally 'in the dark' when it was first broadcast. But the Spin doctors jumped on it, and assuming Anderson Cooper is openly gay (he is not; he may be gay, but he has NEVER come out publicly), twisted into a 'nasty radical homo agenda thing" against the Tea Party protesters. And many people repeat this fiction....even if its not true - simply because it makes for nice Theater. But it's wrong...
YStop being such a .Drama Queen, Mr. Naile.
Now *there's* some gay slang you can identify with, huh?
Quick call Andy Cooper!! He must more of a homosexual. Is that possible?
(Why do you guys always try to tag me with your special desires? Just noticed it is almost mandatory in any flimsy response like yours.)
Thom has presented an argument strongly supported by the facts.
That's not flimsy. The flimsy response is your own.
Wilber
Democrat (typical) Congressman Carol Shea-Porker has not apologized yet for using a homosexual slur against Tea Party Patriots.
Maybe its time the Democrat Party Chair apologized on her behalf if Democrat Shea-Porker doesn't have the class.
I'm waiting.
When will these two man up and do the right thing for once and attempt to put to rest the endless personal attacks on average citizens who care about their country?
You're repeating yourself, dear.
Our guests will think your rattled.
Wilber
I think everyone knew what the slur 'tea bagger' meant... EVERYONE, which is why it's so appalling that those folks have had to endure it as long as they've had to. I can't believe you guys would claim not to know it was a slur.
We expected you to give RB a pass...
Gladney's beating was not the last... there was another one a few days ago, this time, they were carrying Che signs, which they used to beat the peaceful protesters, including a 62-year old, into submission.
Oh the hatred! We're about what, 5 for 0, with the lefties seem to be winning the war of physical violence? I'd say this has been fomented by the hatred shown in the overhwelmingly anti-tea partier media... they've whipped them up to a frenzy using derogatory language and false accusations of astroturfing, or being manipulated by those evil insurance companies, or this or that...
And a lot of those folks are older people too, putting their lives at risk, coming out for no other reason that they just don't like what is going on.
I've always respected Ed for being a real activist and not just an internet blowhard.
But geez tea? Ed can't even bring himself to write my name.
LOL
NH. Everyone? You've got to be kidding. I'm sixty and have a pretty well rounded street vocabulary. I had no idea what Ed was talking about. And when I looked it up, teabagging was explained in heterosexual terms.
You guys aren't just in the gutter--you are on the leading edge of vulgarity.