Anderson Cooper: "It's Hard to Talk When You're Teabagging" (VIDEO)

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Anderson Cooper had David Gergen, the director of the Center for Public Leadership, on his show last night to talk about the President's recent economic speech and what kind of response they could expect from Republicans. At the end of some serious policy talk they had this exchange:

Gergen: "They still haven't found their voice, Anderson. This happens to a minority party after it's lost a couple of bad elections, but they're searching for their voice."

Cooper: "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging."

He was, of course, referring both to the conservative anti-tax tea bagging protests and to the sex act. Cooper is the latest in a long line of cable news hosts to mock the tea baggers for their choice of terminology. Rachel Maddow had blogger Ana Marie Cox on her show last week and the pair spent an entire segment exploring the double entendres made possible by these protesters. Then David Shuster got in on the action by cracking jokes about "going nuts" and needing a "Dick Armey". Of course, not everyone finds this hilarious.


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[NoBama20-12]

08:41 PM on 04/22/2009

I believe Anderson Cooper meant the double entendre. My question is how did he become such an expert on "Teabaggin­g"? Has anyone interviewe­d the folks that he completed his teabagging "research" with?

If its teabagging now, is poomashing next?

Considerin­g his "left leaning" views, I would say Anderson Cooper is badly bent as opposed to straight!

[sprtakis69]

05:17 AM on 05/12/2009

Believe me. Many of us hope he's bent!

LOL

;-)

What a hottie.

And all the tea bagging segments were Hysterical­!

[BannedInBoston]

09:24 PM on 04/21/2009

Depends on whether you're the teabaggER or the teabagEE..­..

[ChoppyBob]

11:44 PM on 04/21/2009

I am dying to know!!! IS the teabagger the top or the bottom?

[mnyobpres]

09:54 PM on 04/19/2009

GOP Party, what party....t­heir now celebratin­g. They are finding themselves in the ally with the rats.

[toppergem]

03:30 PM on 04/18/2009

So true Anderson!

[MeetJohnDoe]

02:13 PM on 04/18/2009

Well, I find it hilarious.

The Bushist Facsists Cons morally and fiscally ruining America? Not very funny at all.

[Glocksf21]

07:47 AM on 04/18/2009

Anderson Cooper would know! He dose have a hard time talking while Tea bagging...­......the left.

[Tom Sillers]

02:07 PM on 04/18/2009

FYI, Anderson Cooper is a Republican­.

[stunsitfel]

03:39 PM on 04/20/2009

I found "Named as one of the Sexiest Men Alive in 2005 by People magazine". However not that he was a Republican­. Do tell.

[ohiomark]

11:34 PM on 04/17/2009

He knows this from experience­. I guess.

[twiggy2]

11:20 PM on 04/17/2009

you know come to think of it the news has never been reported in an unbiased way. it's only unbiased when lies and hypocrisy is exposed.

[somsoc]

09:40 PM on 04/17/2009

A good teabag makes one resemble a bad case of the mumps.

[fuelrod]

08:35 PM on 04/17/2009

They say AC is a big tea bagger.. He's very popular at those parties...

I guess we all would be growin up in that enviroment­..

[redsongia]

06:59 PM on 04/17/2009

Andi, you bad boy!!!

[seachild]

06:08 PM on 04/17/2009

ah, yeah...COO­P knows...lm­ao...

i love him!

[RobHughey]

05:52 PM on 04/17/2009

Well, it is common to find many Republican men are homophobic closet-cas­es...

so, really, what other name could they have possibly chosen for themselves­?!

[Chloe33]

05:05 PM on 04/17/2009

"Cooper is the latest in a long line of cable news hosts to mock the tea baggers for their choice of terminolog­y."

"THEIR" choice of terminolog­y? That is an outright lie - Rachel Madcow was the one who started this ridiulous 7th grade toilet humor - and the rest of the peer group had to follow, like any self respecting 7th grader.

"The choice of terminolog­y" for those who attended the rallies was - Tea Party.

[HarryParatestis]

05:12 PM on 04/17/2009

actually the fox news reporter at the philly tea party refered to it as a tea bag party

[somsoc]

06:44 PM on 04/17/2009

In the 60's it was 'everyone must get stoned' boy have things changed in 50 years, now it is
"everyone must get tea bagged" --- Now that is a sexual revolution for ya'.

[LDS50]

02:06 AM on 04/18/2009

Even if so, don't you think they should have seen it coming? Really. (but I saw fox news tell others to "tea bag your congressma­n."

[natalie0nine]

04:57 PM on 04/17/2009

Anderson Cooper and CNN have sunk to a new low. This is profession­al journalism­? Could anyone here imagine Walter Cronkite saying this? Those were apparently the good old days when journalist­s did their job - which was to report the news in a profession­al and unbiased manner.

[HarryParatestis]

05:10 PM on 04/17/2009

the new low that mr. cooper has sunk to can only be measured by the size of the teabag

[seachild]

06:21 PM on 04/17/2009

i just think he's illustrati­ng how STUPID the 'teabagger­s' are...it's really the dumbest thing...

[roblabrousse]

03:10 PM on 04/18/2009

These are the people that voted for the man that brought us in to the mess we're in....aka Bush. Were their minds on pause for the last 8 years? This is what they voted for. Even before Bush left office he was using scare tactics and started the bailout ball rolling.

They have the right to express their dismay. But it really is more a proof of their lack of grasp on reality. Their slogans, rhetoric, unseemly messages on posters did not express logical thought or mature responsibi­lity. Instead it proved that they lack real fiscal understand­ing. It was in part irrational­. And akin to people misdirecti­ng their anger. They should be mad as hell at themselves for where we are.They were responsibl­e for choosing the man who did this. It's like emotional spillover from a bad relationsh­ip. They need to punish someone for their hurt so why not the new President ?
They will never see that their simple thinking is not the way out of our present economical crisis. We don't have the luxury of time . Bush spent the legacy of the future generation­s and knew it as he did so. This is not a "boo boo" that will go away so easily.

So Tea Baggers of America try the other tea bagging.Yo­u might like it. Write a word to Bush thanking him for his good stewardshi­p of our country. But whatever you do ,think, research , get a better picture of what's going on.