MSNBC, Seriously?

Rachel Maddow thinks you’re as stupid as she is. In the following video she seems to imply that she has some special knowledge about the fairly well known alternative use of tea bag that she assumes nobody who is in favor of reasonable taxes rates and responsible spending would possibly know. Well if they didn’t know it before, they certainly do now – Maddow pretentiously proceeds to joke about “tea bagging” approximately 1,348,753 time in one segment, running a joke that wasn’t really funny into the ground. Never mind the fact that many of the people in the segment are clearly playing on the naughty word.

“Tea Bag Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You!” doesn’t even make sense without the word play.

I’m actually quite disappointed in Rachel. If she was going to run a segment with that amount of overkill on a stupid joke, she could have at least played off of the ironic name of her guest from that bankrupt radio station nobody listens to.

Two thoughts about the content of the segment though (if there really was any.)

(1) What is with all the mocking of people who want a responsible Government? You would think that would be in her best interest. The mocking has been quite coordinated across the media and especially at PMSNBC. Example here. The orchestration is getting kind of creepy, starting with the “Rush Limbaugh is the new leader of the Republican party” story that everyone ran with at the same time which was pretty much the most retarded ‘political’ news story of the decade.

(2) This talk of radicals. This talk of keeping tax levels at a manageable level is radical. Ummm, no. Maybe in the days of the original tea party that was radical, but it is now one of the basic reasons for the country’s very existence. The definition of the term radical seems to be ballooning.

From the Washington Times:

The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in “rightwing extremist activity,” saying the economic recession, the election of America’s first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias.

A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines “rightwing extremism in the United States” as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority.

“It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration,” the warning says.

So now we can include veterans, people who favor state’s rights as outlined by the founding fathers, people against the killing of children and people for law and under the ever-widening umbrella of “radical.” Nice.

** Update **

One of the world’s foremost experts on tea bagging weighs in with “it’s hard to talk when you’re tea bagging.”

Will the media ever address the protests or just continue to masturbate and backslap at their own double entendres?