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Rachel Maddow discusses Fox News' desire to "tea bag" Obama... John Waters has yet to comment

by
Lyle Masaki

Last night, Rachel Maddow indulged in her juvenile side with a snickerfest about protests to Obama's fiscal policy calling themselves "tea parties" with calls being made to "tea bag" Barack Obama, liberal democrats and more.

The talk about tea bagging is meant to invoke the Boston Tea Party, but to anyone who has watched the John Waters film Pecker, it calls to mind something that the go-go boys at the Fudge Palace performed on clients. Fortunately for humor, Fox News pundits and tea party organizers seem oblivious to this, leading Maddow and guest Ana Marie Cox to demonstrate how sometimes an unintended sexual innuendo can keep getting funnier the more you mention it.

As far as I know no one has asked John Waters to comment, but I'm sure he'd have some valuable insights to add. Check out the segment:

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    • Submitted by
    Lyle Masaki
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 11:06.
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    GeoNorth's picture

    ....

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    GeoNorth (613 points) (122 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 11:15.

    Can I please vote for Rachel in the AfterElton Hot 100?

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    Liz T's picture

    heh...

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    Liz T (8812 points) (1835 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 11:18.

    i saw this last night and i was cracking up, but only because every other word was "tea bagging" and i kept thinking "there has to be a reason why they keep saying this term every 5 seconds..."

    i had a feeling it had to do with something sexual, but eh, i'm slow.

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    Ed Kennedy's picture

    I'm so tired this morning

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    Ed Kennedy (6314 points) (1176 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 11:26.

    I blame Rachel Maddown for me being tired this morning.  I was laughing so hard at this segment when I went to bed (I'm old, I go to bed at 11pm now), I couldn't get to sleep.  That woman owes me a nap!  I generally switch over from Comedy Central at 11:30 so I can stop laughing and got to sleep, and there she was being funnier than Stuart and Colbert.

    I feel so sorry for Republicans on this - they don't even realize they're not in an an 11 year old joke.  Normally I'm all for them making asses of themselves, but I feel somehow sorry for them being so incredibly out of touch.  And they just keep going.  You'd think one of the Fox news staffers would be trolling pop culture blogs for something to get upset about and find out they're making fools of themselves, but no.  O'Reilly is actually going to have the on-air aneurysm we've all been expecting when he finally figures it out.

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    Allyndra's picture

    OMG, I laughed so hard. You

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    Allyndra (465 points) (94 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 11:58.
    OMG, I laughed so hard. You would think somebody would do a quick google search on the connotations of a phrase before adopting it like that.
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    Ed Kennedy's picture

    Or at least listen to their wives

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    Ed Kennedy (6314 points) (1176 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 12:12.
    I'd been thinking it was just a John Waters thing, so I was feeling sorry for them for being clueless.  But Daily Kos just clipped together all the Fox News Tea bagging covereage with a clip from Sex & The City explaining tea bagging (I love Samantha), so it's not like you had to be a fan of a gay cult movie to know.  I'll admit the TBS recbroadcasts probably edit that out, but surely a Republican somewhere has HBO?
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    Moi's picture

    Hilarious

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    Moi (92 points) (26 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 12:12.

    There was a segment on the Daily Show about this a couple of weeks back. How do these people not realize what they're saying?

    http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220573&title=indignation-populist-uprising

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    Aximill's picture

    The immature kid in us all is smiling

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    Aximill (166 points) (36 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 14:10.
    Hopefully the conservatives will never wise up to this so Maddow and others can keep snickering about it. Myself included.
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    Nukely's picture

    Teabagging: a short history

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    Nukely (3426 points) (1195 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 15:55.
    Sex and the city (youtube)

    I was always unsure of the Sex and the City explanation because I had thought that tea bagging had come to mean giving someone oral sex while he/she still had their under pants on.

    In the movie, it was described as a stripper, wearing a jock strap, bouncing his balls off of a customers forehead, something that is presumably just this side of legal in that city.
    T-bagging demonstration from the movie (youtube).

     

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    David Ehrenstein's picture

    It's very simple, really

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    David Ehrenstein (7805 points) (1725 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-04-10 16:18.
    "Conservatives" have no sense of humor whatsoever. And humor is one of our greatest weapons.
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    saracarrol's picture

    Yap I saw this… it was

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    saracarrol (10 points) (2 posts)
    on Fri, 2009-08-21 01:53.
    Yap I saw this… it was really hilarious…! I laughed so much that tear came to my eyes!! And David…nice saying… humor is the weapon and wealth of the republicans course!! Dogs for sale
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