Jake Tapper decries Obama use of "teabagger" then admits it's a coinage of Tea Party folks

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Annals of Etymology
Josh Marshall | May 4, 2010, 9:30AM
Jake Tapper notes that in an interview in Jon Alter's new book The Promise President Obama refers to Tea Partiers as "tea baggers". I actually heard the president use the same phrase once, and was a little surprised myself.

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

But this isn't true, though a number of conservative pressure groups have tried to claim as much. The phrase "tea bagger" was originally a coinage of the Tea Party folks themselves. Their opponents picked it up from them after they chose it and continued using it after the right-wing activists ditched it in favor of "Tea Partier" since 'tea bagger' can be taken as a reference to a particular sexual practice.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/05/annals_of_etymology.php?ref=fpblg

Tapper's blog:

President Obama: GOP Opposition to Stimulus 'Helped to Create the Tea-Baggers'

Three days after he decried the lack of civility in American politics, President Obama is quoted in a new book about his presidency referring to the Tea Party movement using a derogatory term with sexual connotations.

-snip

UPDATE: Some liberal bloggers, taking issue with this post, have noted that some Tea Partyers coined and embraced the term "tea-baggers." That seems true, and I didn't address the coinage of the term above. But it was fairly soon, by April 2009, when anchors on CNN and MSNBC were employing the term with mocking innuendo, as seen in the links above, and pretty quickly after that Tea Party activists began taking umbrage with it. It's now a common way for some on the left to mock Tea Partyers.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/president-obama-gop-opposition-to-stimulus-helped-to-create-the-teabaggers.html

Oops, Jake...looks like there's a little egg on your face.

Yet again.

But now that I know it bothers them, I'll never stop using the term. :evilgrin:

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I know I shouldn't laugh..or should I? :rofl:

that ehy promote and spew everywhere they go, they have no leg to stand on regarding what the rest of the world labels them.

:nopity: I've seen the signs voicing their so called concerns..as President Obama said once.."they should be thanking him for cutting their taxes".

tapper knows the TEABAGGERS are fueled by the malicious lies of fauxsn00ze.

I use the term teabaggers bc they aren't the real thing and baggers is descriptive.

I seriously doubt the President even knows it's a sexual connotation. I wouldn't if I hadn't read it on DU.

tapper finds the most inane issues to whine about.

at the same time they stop referring to the Democrat party... Fuck it, I like calling them teabaggers I'm not stopping.

Conservatives Debate: Is 'Teabagger' Their 'N-Word'?
Evan McMorris-Santoro | December 3, 2009, 6:11PM

In the latest issue of National Review, Jay Nordlinger details the history of 'teabagging' and reports on the conservative debate about what to do about it. But it's not what you think -- no, really, it's not what you think.

Nordlinger's article isn't about tea bagging in the fun sense, nor is it about the long-term effects on the GOP from teabagging in the tri-corn hat-and-time-on-your-hands sense. Rather, it's the story of how conservatives are trying to fix the mess they made when they first decided to call for the "teabagging" of Nancy Pelosi with a straight face.

The key moment in the early history of the tea party movement, described by Nordlinger in his article Rise of an Epithet:

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.

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/to-teabag-or-not-thats-still-the-question-for-conservatives.php?ref=fpblg

Call them what they are or STFU.

There that should settle this verbiage issue.

Don

made teabags their symbol by hanging teabags on their hates and signs. Who could ever forget the woman with the sign "Teabagging for Jesus." What a bunch of cry babies.

That is teabags hanging off their hats not hates.