Teabagging Party Query Confuses Innocent Supermarket Customer

These Tea Parties are really fun to cover and to blog about, but once you get so far inside the machinery of media and politics, it's easy to forget how isolated and insulating it can be, and that sometimes, just because there's a thing that's filling the newshole like gangbusters, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's a massively important cultural event. For what it's worth, Tea Party day remains a faddish phenomenon enjoyed by a tiny hyper-involved portion of the public. I imagine that most people out there in America, if they are experiencing the Teabaggasm in any way, are having the sort of day that The Bloggess is having, in what is probably the most hilarious and trenchant Teabagging post of the year:

Then when I was checking out the bagger asked me if I was "going to any teabagging parties today". Like, WTF? And the cashier was just looking at me waiting for my response and I was all "Uh...no" because I was too shocked to say anything else and then I got home and thought maybe teabagging means something else now but no, I googled it and it still totally means the same thing.

Yes. One truth will remain after Fox closes up shop on Tea Party Day: ask a person if they're going to come to a teabagging party, and that person will think you are a pervert.

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Comments

[lucite]

According to Larry David, teabagging is a lewd act.

[Shayrae]

The tea baggers are protesting wasteful spending by spending money on a million pounds of...tea?
Makes sense, in a Sarah Palin kinda way.

[Dalpine]

Yes, let's compare tea purchases to Sarah Palin!
Alaska has one of the lowest deficits, highest transparency and best tax states in the nation. Go figure.

[jl4141]

What a presumptuous cashier. He should be given the sack.

[ruffmama]

well I hope all of those teabaggers had a ball....or two.

[iala]

Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!!

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

"Oh mama, can this really be the end..."

[MRb1000]

What a bunch of idiots! These people must make more that 250,000 a year because real people would be at work or looking for a job on hump day. You have to be kidding me!

[BlackYowe]

Fox is perverted.

[AurigaRa]

as David Schuster says, "That's teabagging in a nutshell"

[texanna]

I'm really sorry the day is over, because this has been the most number of belly laughs I've had day in and day out for a good number of days in a row.

[mlaiuppa]

Like so much of what the old white GOP right wing whackjobs adopt, steal or borrow, they have NO idea what teabagging is. Then they're affronted when someone makes fun of them.

[Hillrick]

I'm sure some of the young Repubs do...if they saw the pictures afterward that is.

[mlaiuppa]

That would be the Log Cabin Republicans?

[robllawrence]

Top tea exporting countries in the world:
1. Sri Lanka
2. Kenya
3. China
4. India.

You know, these tea baggers are probably supporting some pretty unsavory people.

[AllenD]

(start wingnut parody)

How nice of them to help out Obama's native Kenya.

(end wingnut parody)

[JScott]

Most instant tea comes from tea grown in Argentina.

[Hopalongpoppyseed]

But all those countries have a very savory cuisine.

[eirrac]

I can't believe that the Republicans don't know what "tea bagging " really means! Reminds me of how McCain suggested that his wife should compete in the biker contest. He didn't have a clue about how raunchy the contestants get.

Maybe Eric Cantor goes to Britney's concerts to try to "educate" himself? Nah...

[mlaiuppa]

And wasn't their campaign slogan borrowed from a certain prescription drug?

Clueless. These people continue to be utterly clueless.

[Hillrick]

Either clueless or on a subliminal level something is manifesting itself. Something Penn an Teller did on abstinence se x ed and how in the end the people getting screwed up were Chris tian children.

[Bush-Rolled]

1773 calling, I want my tea bagging back!

[tlgeiger62]

I see a lot of old people at these parties. Looks like the republican convention all over again!

[SENCvoter]

Right on. And all whites too.

[JustLucky]

Check out Vanity Fair's article on Limbaugh:
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/05/rush-limbaugh200905

[STILLPISSED]

Hey RedERIC,

I believe in abortions.­..........­........

[RedEric]

Only trouble is, Jason, you are wrong.

Bush doubled the size of the federal government. Obama has doubled it again. This is why people are furious. It's not a partisan thing. The feds are out of control and need to be put in their place. It's called the Constitution, and the issue is liberty.

http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/tea-party-in-oregon/

http://allanerickson.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/my-tea-party-speech-41509/

[anthead]

"Bush doubled the size of the federal government. Obama has doubled it again"

you must be off your meds, please provide some numbers of how many goverment employees that were created by BHO or Bush for that matter.

[Durango]

And suspension of Habeas corpus? Not a big deal.

Violation of the 4th and 5th Amendments. We can applaud that.

Torture? no problem.

Quadrupling the national debt? After being left a surplus that could have all but eliminated the national debt by now? You were down with that.

But taxing rich people. Now there is an issue to get outraged about!

[trief]

Everything you listed is what we are mad about. For me and a lot of others this was not a partisan issue. I dislike republicans as much as democrats. You just don't get it. Bush has done many horrible things like you listed. If Obama comes in and reverses them, I will be very happy. Unfortunately, I do not see this happening.

[nonamenm]

Hey Eric, lookup "teabagging/ teabagger", you're missing the point of the article.
And no it isn't about the Constitution or liberty, it's about people being used by demagogues. You might have to look that one up too.

[wandering girl]

liberty? what exactly can you not do today that you could do last year? or 10 years ago? what Constitutional rights have you given up? which states' rights have been abrogated in the past 100 days? how much American history have you studied, and what grades did you get? and how are you related to Joe the Plumber?

[c2morow]

I have seen this comment and the signs about losing liberty. Please provide a list of the "liberties" you are losing or are afraid of losing? I am baffled by this. As far as I can tell, everyday when I wake up, I still have the same liberties that I had the day before, as well as the ones I had in 1961 when I was born.

Some of these have been infringed upon by Bush and his secret Presidential powers, but none have been taken away.

Please clarify for me.

[me4you]

NH is having a problem with it, on the state level

[roald]

What is the difference between infringed and taken away? Something like being a little pregnant? Why should I care only about the impact of Bush's actions on my rights and not those of my fellow citizens and those of non-citizens?

Some of those rights are due process, legal representation, humane treatment by the government, ability to face my accusers, separation of church and state, separation of powers among the branches of government, and reasonable expectations of privacy. The list goes on.