As you can see from its Urban Dictionary definition, Teabagging is normally understood as a heterosexual practice. That doesn’t prevent Scott Johnson of Powerline from interpreting it as a strictly homosexual practice and writing an entire essay about how cable networks were calling the Tea Party protesters ‘sissy-boys’ in a coded and underhanded way. It’s not surprising he’s got it wrong, considering this:
The star hosts of CNN and MSNBC news shows have notoriously derided the tea party demonstrations around the country with reference to the practice of teabagging (which I had never heard of before they brought it up).
Yeah, Scott? You still haven’t really mastered the meaning here. Whether you think of teabagging as a gross, disrespectful practice or merely as good fun between consenting adults, the point isn’t that it’s gay. It’s that everytime we see you idiots all we can think of is ball-play. You’re ridiculous.
A few years ago TIME magazine named Powerline as their “Blog of the Year.”
Oy, Oy, Oy….
Would that make parks where tea parties were held ballparks?
Scott is giving the left a good tongue lashing.
My original understanding of the term “Teabagging” before this conservative teabag party stuff came along was from the John Waters movie “Pecker.” In the movie, “Teabagging” was when the male exotic dancers at the gay bar would slap their (underwear contained) package against the forehead or face of a customer standing at the bar. This was strictly forbidden but they did it as often as they could get away with it.
And as luck would have it, someone else on YouTube remembers the scene…
Powerline – didn’t the main commenters there have some latently homosexual nicknames?
Like “Hindrocket” & “Big Trunk”, etc?
Isn’t this guy one of those guys?