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Teabaggers Attack Rachel Maddow On Twitter
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02/09/2010- by Natasia Langfelder
Yesterday Rhodes News and a small contingent of follows attacked Rachel Maddow online. It seems that the Tea Bag party members object to Maddow using the term “Teabaggers” to describe them. It seems that they object to this term as it implies an explicit sexual act. I won’t get into the details, but go watch the episode of Sex and the City to see how this term launched into the American venacular. Maddow was not the first person to coin this term or to apply it to the rising conservative tea bag party. She is also not the only media figure who refers to them as Teabaggers.
However, yesterday on Twitter they attempted a pathetic attack on Maddow.
The offended Teabaggers wrote:
WeThePeople1st: RT @victoria_29: RT @RhodesNews: If @RachelMaddow insists on calling us “Tea Baggers,” is she thus gving us implicit permission 2 call her “dyke”? #p2 #tcot 1 day ago from TweetDeck
victoria_29: RT @RhodesNews: If @RachelMaddow insists on calling us “Tea Baggers,” is she thus gving us implicit permission 2 call her “dyke”? #p2 #tcot
CoachDB18: MadCow! Nuf' said! @RhodesNews @RachelMaddow calling us “Tea Baggers,” …thus giving us permission to call her “dyke”? #p2 #tcot #lcot
nana49: RT @RhodesNews: If @RachelMaddow insists on calling us “Tea Baggers,” is she thus giving us implicit permission to call her “dyke”? #p2 #tcot #lcot
WeThePeople1st: RT @RhodesNews: If @RachelMaddow insists on calling us “Tea Baggers,” is she thus giving us implicit permission to call her “dyke”? #p2 #tcot #lcot
RhodesNews: If @RachelMaddow insists on calling us “Tea Baggers,” is she thus giving us implicit permission to call her “dyke”? #p2 #tcot #lcot
With this attack the Teabaggers are firmly cementing their reputation as nasty, right wing nuts. It goes without saying that no, there is no implicit right that can be found in any situation that would make it ok to call someone a dyke. Dyke is a pejorative term that people have used to attack the LBQ community both verbally and physically. Women have been called dykes by people who have stabbed them, raped them, killed them. There is no comparison between calling someone a Teabagger and calling someone a dyke.
As the Republican party decides whether or not to embrace the Teabaggers, one can only hope they take the overwhelming hatred and bitterness of this radical faction into consideration.
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Gail
February 10, 2010 at 7:05 pm
You should follow RM’s twitter stream more often. This is not new, it’s everyday and night, and often times it’s worse..
Kaz
February 10, 2010 at 2:01 pm
What a nasty, rude little man. And kinda dense to not even get her Twitter name right. Therein lies the difference, Rachel checks her facts. Also, she wouldn’t stopp so low as to start making personal attacks. I think it was Mrs Thatcher who said that when someone starts making personal attacks she knows she’s won the argument as they have nothing reasonable left to say.
Tracy Coyle
February 10, 2010 at 8:10 am
Maddow is a housewife.
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Sam
February 9, 2010 at 2:47 pm
“Dyke” is one of those words where the person who is one can use it, but no one else. DYKES ON BIKES leads the San Francisco LBGT parade every year. My opinion – let the tea-baggers call us whatever they want – we’ll still use tea-bagger!
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CanuckJacq
February 9, 2010 at 1:46 pm
It really is so perfect that they got her bloody twitter name wrong.
a.
February 9, 2010 at 9:02 pm
my thought exactly!
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