Poll: Fox News Tea bagging on national TV????

[WIUtomato]

Okay, so some how I missed this yesterday, probably on account of my sequestering myself to try to work ahead on spring break, but whatever, it really is worth a laugh.

Apparently Fox News was encouraging its viewers to attend "tea bagging" rallys yesterday on account of it being tax day, and they wanted to protest all the economic bollocks, I didn't really bother looking all of that up, I just got a laugh out of their repeated use of the term "tea bagging."

Being both a gamer, and former attendee of numerous drunken college rampages, I have a "special" knowledge of this term, and all its diverse meanings, but apparently neither fox news, nor the few score of angry white people they induced to turn out for these events understands the concept of humiliating your vanquished opponent and/or unconscious room mate by placing their face and your genitals (real or digital) in extreme close proximity... nice dropping of the 'ahem' balls there fox... LMFAO!

I mean, honestly, who wouldn't want to tea bag Katie Couric? Matt Laower? And who could forget them Gumbals??? (pardon my spelling on the names here, I really don't care how they are spelled.

Here is a good youtube link if you want to see the words tea bagging used a ton, and watching it, I really can't decide if fox chose the term knowing its other connotations or not, but I KNOW MSNBC gets it, so... who knows, just another confirmation that gaming culture is affecting everyone, whether they know it or not...

 

[WIUtomato]

oops, here is that link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLsKt4O4Yw8

 

[Sir Ollie]

Its Fox news! what do you expect, even i know about their stupid ideas and i'm bloody English

Edit - Funny though haha Teabag Obama on Twitter

 

[Tech Team FTW!]

It's Fox.
Enough Said.

 

[WIUtomato]

DEAR LORD! Watch that video, it includes the quote (no joke): "...though, if he is being tea bagged during his speech, the message may be a bit muffled..." Serious props to MSNBC for their sense of humor about this, and taking the piss out of Fox News for it, I haven't laughed this hard in forever!

 

[SimuLord]

Considering Obama's middle-class tax cut that is primarily working in favor of Fox News's slack jawed and un-moneyed clientele I find the notion of a tax protest disingenuous. It's bad enough the right wing's using religion as a cover to get the poor to support their exploitation by the rich, but now they're supposed to protest when a left-wing president repeals the tax cuts for their slave-master rich overlords in favor of a tax credit for working families?

I don't get poor conservatives.

 

[Seifen]

*sigh* how come Fox news is allowed to decry Gay rights supporters as anti-american for protesting. But then they turn around and encourage everyone to rally together to save their precious dollars. I really hate Modern Hypocracy in America.

oh wait Pi_Fighter had it right, I shouldn't have even wasted my digital breath...

 

[WIUtomato]

You do know the origin of the term right? You know... the whole boston tea party thing... before the term was stolen by immature little boys with homosexual tendencies.

yeah, yeah, I get it, it just isn't that clever from that aspect, from the humiliation aspect, its a bloody riot though, and the tea bag wasn't invented until 1903, the Boston tea party took place a little before that if I'm not mistaken...

 

[Flying Dagger]

thats brilliant.

 

[Ladie Au Pair]

I know Fox news anchors saying "tea bagging" shouldn't be funny, but I do chuckle a little every time I hear it. I mean, I feel like one person should have said "Hey, why don't we saying 'tea partying' or 'holding a tea party' instead?"

 

[WIUtomato]

I know Fox news anchors saying "tea bagging" shouldn't be funny, but I do chuckle a little every time I hear it. I mean, I feel like one person should have said "Hey, why don't we saying 'tea partying' or 'holding a tea party' instead?"

If laughing at this is wrong, I don't want to be right, you would think that someone over there would have gotten it eventually? like, maybe when Jim that 19 year old intern wet his pants after every news segment on it?

 

[TeaBaggin]

I AM NOW ICON ??

 

[brithou11]

This doesn't surprise me at all. If you watch Fox News for five minutes, they embarrass themselves constantly. These are probably the most biased and racist people on earth!

 

[kawligia]

I don't think the X-Box Live subculture is large enough or strong enough to lay any valid claim on that term.

 

[Doug]

Its like Resident Evil - any intelligence is there by accident

 

[WIUtomato]

I don't think the X-Box Live subculture is large enough or strong enough to lay any valid claim on that term.

? Thats been a pretty common gaming term since Counter Strike at least, does anyone know they exact origins of the tea bag (humiliation style, not to make a tasty hot drink)?

PS usually, I don't monitor my posts this closely, but I'm finding it much more entertaining to do this than write lesson plans... lol

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Notice how she can't even stifle her laughter.

 

[WIUtomato]

Notice how she can't even stifle her laughter.

I like where she yells at the people off camera to not laugh so she can get through the story...

 

[bad rider]

Teabag the fools in DC! Funniest fox story ever.

 

[kawligia]

I don't think the X-Box Live subculture is large enough or strong enough to lay any valid claim on that term.

? Thats been a pretty common gaming term since Counter Strike at least, does anyone know they exact origins of the tea bag (humiliation style, not to make a tasty hot drink)?

PS usually, I don't monitor my posts this closely, but I'm finding it much more entertaining to do this than write lesson plans... lol

Even if every multiplayer game combined used this term, its still only a minor subculture and is therefore the exception rather than the rule.