John Dingell Learns About Teabagging: 'It's funny and I'm going to keep using it.'

[kpete]

John Dingell Learns About Teabagging
One more tidbit from Do Not Ask What Good We Do by Robert Draper, courtesy of the Daily Beast:

"John Dingell is the longest currently-serving member of Congress (and the third longest-serving ever). The acerbic 85-year-old Michigan Democrat had long been contemptuous of Tea Partiers. He found them unruly and difficult to get along with. Dingell tended to refer to them as 'teabaggers,' a phrase that has an alternate sexual meaning. This normally wouldn't have been a problem in the hall of Congress, but when Dingell was booked to appear on The Daily Show with John Stewart, his staff felt the need to finally warn and educate him. When his chief of staff shared the other meaning of 'teabagger' with Dingell, the Congressman went through three different stages of reaction. At first, he said 'hah,' then said 'that's disgusting,' and finally the octogenarian congressman reached the plain of acceptance and said, 'It's funny and I'm going to keep using it.'"

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/04/26/john_dingell_learns_about_teabagging.html

[calimary]

1. That's why I keep using it, myself!

Because it's funny and terribly pejorative, especially when you consider what sexual prudes and prisses they are!

BESIDES:::::
I will call them whatever I damn well feel like calling them. Until/unless their side stops calling us "the Democrat Party."

[KansDem]

2. Didn't the "TeaBaggers" name themselves?

I seem to recall members of the Tea Party calling themselves (affectionately) "TeaBaggers."

So now they get upset when others use this term in referring to them?

Maybe if one of the earliest "TeaBaggers" had conducted a simple 30-second search on Google, they would have save themselves a lot of grief.

[SomethingFishy]

3. Better that they didn't.. it was hilarious watching them

sink further and further.. Got to the point where they were hanging teabags from their hats. Just fucking clueless.. I laughed for weeks when they came up with that shit.

[madinmaryland]

4. Remember the lady who was "teabagging for Jesus"

ETA:

[renate]

7. words cannot express how much I love that picture n/t

[Bozita]

8. That's right up there with the "Moran" photo!

[abolugi]

13. **still wiping the tears off my face**

That picture is priceless!

[pacalo]

29. Priceless.

[progressoid]

6. "proud to be a teabagger"

[Warpy]

5. I use it for two reasons

First, it's what they originally named themselves. Second, since one of them finally went to Urban Dictionary to find out why we were snickering at them and spread the word, they hate it.

Pissing off the right people is one of my life projects.

[LASlibinSC]

9. What is the Moran photo? Who is Moran?

?

[Canuckistanian]

10. THIS is the moran pic

It's well-known here

[Vanje]

11. This guy

[hifiguy]

12. This intellectual titan

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from, IIRC, the Terri Schiavo flap in '05.

[LASlibinSC]

14. Sorry!

I'm new here, but should have known. It just didn't click! Thank you for the clarification. Headsmack!

[Bake]

16. Welcome to DU!

And any excuse to trot out the "Morans" photo is a good excuse!



Bake

[csziggy]

20. There's a smilie for that

[Scuba]

22. We're all learning. Welcome to DU.

[AnneD]

15. God only knows.....

his reaction when he finds out the meaning of Rick Santorum's last name. Hope someone has the nitro tablets handy.

I too enjoy many a laugh at the expense of RW ignorant fools, but then I am easily amused.

[LynneSin]

17. I still remember when some dumbass at FR posted "We should call ourselves Teabaggers"

[longship]

18. I grew up in his district

Well, when I was born, it was prior to his House of Reps service. But when I graduated from HS in 1966 he was my rep, and for over a decade before then.

[JI7]

19. they named themselves TeaBaggers , everyone should continue to refer to them as that

[notadmblnd]

21. Yup, that's what they started calling themselves, they need to own it.

teabaggers they are

[Scuba]

23. Am I the only one who finds it ironic that the congressman in question is named Dingell?

[Auntie Bush]

24. Do I dare ask what the other meaning of teabagger is?

[backscatter712]

25. Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

But if you really want to know...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=teabagging

[Auntie Bush]

27. Unfortunately I didn't take bliss...wish I did.

[Oilwellian]

26. Remember when they wore their teabags proudly?

[groundloop]

28. Damn that looks like Max Klinger

[TheKentuckian]

30. That is what they named themselves and no mercy on assholes because they are ignorant