Rachel Maddow and her liberal cohorts are right that "teabagging" had a preexisting, crude, sexual meaning before the term was ever applied to political protesters angered by excessive government. It is extremely annoying however, for liberal television hosts to continue pretending that the conservative protestors chose this moniker. At the original protests, there were many bags of tea, but very few--if any at all--references to "teabagging." It wasn't "funny when these members of this emerging far-right protest movement started calling them teabaggers and threatening to teabag anyone who disagrees with them" because that's not what actually happened. As Alex Koppelman wrote for
The Truth About the "Teabaggers"
The Truth About the "Teabaggers"
The Truth About the "Teabaggers"
Rachel Maddow and her liberal cohorts are right that "teabagging" had a preexisting, crude, sexual meaning before the term was ever applied to political protesters angered by excessive government. It is extremely annoying however, for liberal television hosts to continue pretending that the conservative protestors chose this moniker. At the original protests, there were many bags of tea, but very few--if any at all--references to "teabagging." It wasn't "funny when these members of this emerging far-right protest movement started calling them teabaggers and threatening to teabag anyone who disagrees with them" because that's not what actually happened. As Alex Koppelman wrote for