Merged Franken and the Tea Bagger...

tyr_13 said:
Again, I'd never even heard that it was tied to homosexuality until these message boards. It seems pretty broadly sexual to me.
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Probably the first widely known mention of the practice was in the Waters film "Pecker".

Later it became a form of hazing for people who had passed out at parties.
 
I think Franken handled that well, and yet at least three of the people in that video seemed determined to the point of blatant cognitive dissonance to disagree with him no matter what he said. Personally, my own opinion is more like the guy narrating/reporting in the video on this page (the video is good, regardless of one's thoughts on HuffPo).
 
Are people in wheelchairs supposed to be protected from being heckled at health care town halls? Everyone else gets heckled.

Oh right, its an emotional appeal. Nevermind.
 
Hmm.. you're complaining about appeals to emotion while defending the tea-baggers.....Nice.:rolleyes:
 
thaiboxerken said:
Hmm.. you're complaining about appeals to emotion while defending the tea-baggers.....Nice.:rolleyes:
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Point out where I defended them.

I said:
1. the term "tea baggers" is juvenile and probably should be moderated on this forum
2. someone being in a wheelchair getting heckled is just as bad as someone who is standing getting heckled

Neither of those means that the town hall griefers are good people. If you read those as a defense of those people, that's just your blinders at work. If you bothered to read past threads on the subject, you would see that my opinion is that disruptive people should be thrown out on their rears.

Just keep working on it Thai. One day you'll get it.
 
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corplinx said:
Are people in wheelchairs supposed to be protected from being heckled at health care town halls? Everyone else gets heckled.

Oh right, its an emotional appeal. Nevermind.
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Your ridiculous tu quoque aside, I pointed out the video, not the Huffington Post commentary. Considering the heckling of the woman in the wheelchair is only a small part of the point in the video. So, great job in dodging the point.

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Yeah, I globbed your two posts together as I was reading the thread. My bad.
 
corplinx said:
When the term was coined, it was pretty clearly done so with a smirk and grin because of the sex act mostly performed by male homosexuals.
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[citation needed]
 
boloboffin said:
They are the ones that came up with the idea of mailing tea bags to members of Congress (click here for a representative posting). That's where the whole idea to call them teabaggers came from.

And I really hate how funny you are when you aren't picking on me.
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Additionally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teabagging#2009_Tea_Party_protests

The protestors started using the term and didn't bother to ask a 12 year old boy. Folks who still use the term are making fun of them for having a marketing strategy as poorly thought out as McDonald's infamous "I'd Hit It" campaign.
 
corplinx said:
Are we still referring to deficit protesters, health care protesters, and LaRouche voters collectively as a homosexuals?

This "tea baggers" thing is kind of juvenile.....
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THe woman who started the questioning in the video was wearing a Tea Bag Party shirt...

I don't disagree with you point, it was just an easy label to grab
 
You also have to hand it to Franken - I've been in a few of these sorts of situations myself, and the very first order of business is preparation. He knows the arguments, if not all the technicalities, cold. You have to have examples and contrary positions already worked out and waiting to be called to the front, as he shows. He has to have prepared himself to concentrate on the conversation and not ever loose focus, regardless of the left field comments, but he still has to be listening. Part of this is, of course, standard training for any on-stage show business type, as well for any politician. Here they compliment each other.

Also, it's one thing to shout at a politicain at a podium 30 feet away. It's another to do it when he's standing right next to you, with friends and neighbirs standing around. The crowd dynamics are strikingly different.
 
corplinx said:
1. the term "tea baggers" is juvenile and probably should be moderated on this forum
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Moderated?!?! Your faux outrage just went from pitiful and annoying to unbelievable.
 
Perhaps an unsuspected talent!



I don't know about anyone else, but to me (I do a lot of geographic database work) that's an impressive talent.
 
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