‘Teabagger’ Ranks as Runner-Up for Oxford’s ‘Word of the Year’

Oxford University Press: teabagger - a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773)

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November 17, 2009 at 9:58 pm - MSNBC
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SubjectoftheUSSA   November 17th, 2009 - 11:05 pm

Much rather be the bagger than the bagged

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stacy   November 17th, 2009 - 11:08 pm

Maybe someone should tell Oxford that this is a derogatory name and offensive to the people it is referring to. “Teabagging” is a gay sex term for ball su cking. I can’t believe any self respecting journalist would use this term.

It makes no sense and is only funny in a Bevis and Butthead kind of way.

TulsaMark   November 17th, 2009 - 11:10 pm

Teabagging: (verb) 1. A homosexual sex act involving placing one’s testicles onto the
face of one’s partner during sexual activity. 2. The use of the term by the
Leftists to disparage American’s voicing their concerns about excessive debts
and spending at the townhalls, rather than using the term “Tea Party” which
is an act of rebellion and protest against excessive government starting with
the Boston Tea Party.

Bubba   November 17th, 2009 - 11:11 pm

I’m a lefty, anti-war, pro-immigration, anti-bank, pro-universal health care, FREE enterprise loving, anti-capitalist, pacifist, who doesn’t believe in violence of any kind, unless you sucker punch me or say something about my mother. Then you’re going to the hospital!

But I still love and forgive you, and will even call an ambulance for you. That’s the difference between me and conservatives who are filled with hate. “Please line up for some karma”, I think is what my next rally sign will say.

stacy   November 17th, 2009 - 11:19 pm

Kieth Oberman and this guy did what the media loves to do “snowball”.

They were “Snowballing”.

Definition: When two talking heads pass back and forth offensive material they both enjoy but is repellent to most viewers.

Can we get that in oxford for next year?

Willie   November 17th, 2009 - 11:46 pm

If the conservatives ar the teabaggers, liberals must be the teabagees.

Veritas   November 18th, 2009 - 12:18 am

OMG, do all 3 of Olbermanns viewers agree with this?

jason   November 18th, 2009 - 1:59 am

So, it’s official then.
The tea party attendees have taken a term near and dear to the heart and scrotums of Liberal closet dwellers and have turned it into a positive thing and used it against the left.

Lovely, I think I fancy a cup o’ tea!

http://cafepress.com/rightwingstuff

DocinMPLS   November 18th, 2009 - 8:10 am

Olberman=anal sphincter

David ORama   November 18th, 2009 - 8:14 am

This gives them a sense of belonging to their mythical collective. They’ve slaved away unnoticed and forgotten, earning letters and degrees while learning everything there is to know about words – and nobody noticed. Now they’re making a statement. They’re in the “Yes we can!” club too! Imagine how snarkily they giggled when they came up with that. We should figure out how many trees were cut down over that company’s lifetime (to print these dictionaries,) then sick the environmentalists on them.

Lbfent2   November 18th, 2009 - 8:39 am

Leftists can’t function very well on a platform based on reason, hence the baseless name-calling when criticizing their opposition.

Tammy   November 18th, 2009 - 8:57 am

Bubba,

I’m a righty, pro-life, liberty-loving, God-believing, hard-working (no free hand-outs), pro-military (to retain the liberties I have), self-empowering woman who believes by empowering the government for free stuff, you create an enormous dictatorship that will ultimately kill the will of the people they dictate.

Conservatives don’t hate. Unlike most lefties who spend most of their time whining about what they don’t have, conservatives get off their arses and provide for the people they love. Yes, raise your head in prideful deliberation as you promote to squash what made this country different, what made this country great. Socialism didn’t invent electricity, Ford, motion picture, the computer, Kool-aid (which you seem gulp down quite a bit), and much more.

I just can’t understand why liberals insist on changing a country that has already been a place of refuge and comfort to those who have escaped tyranny.

And another thing, what makes for a better country is telling people they can be whatever they want to be (astronauts, scientist, jedi-warriors) and giving them the opportunity (not the money) to do it.

Rick   November 18th, 2009 - 9:07 am

Every liberal in this country needs a nice Hitler… Watch southpark.. Figure it out…

Yawn   November 18th, 2009 - 9:12 am

How immature. Oxford should be ashamed.

Rick   November 18th, 2009 - 9:13 am

Figures… Olberdork… No ratings… Bad glasses… Typical liberal smart azz… Never answers the questions the right poses.. Just make fun of them.. I bet Olberdork has penis breath..

hippieconservitive   November 18th, 2009 - 9:50 am

just goes to show ya
of you cant fight the message
shoot (or in this case try to belittle)
the messanger

GunnyG   November 18th, 2009 - 9:56 am

We’ll keep teabagging the Leftists as Chrissy Matthews gets his tingly crotch over Obummer.

http://noliberalspin.blogtownhall.com/2009/11/18/do_not_test_american_resolve.thtml

The Anti Liberal Zone

NEVER SURRENDER TEA BAGGERS!

Truth Be Told   November 18th, 2009 - 10:51 am

I never knew what tea bagging meant until Bill Maher said what it was on his show.I hope that’s not what you tea baggers do at your riots(oops)rallies.

Globalwarmer   November 18th, 2009 - 11:01 am

The stalker sphincter boy little keith olberscum is a sorry little boy that is nothing more than a walking talking Dick with ears. And when this un-American shows up on the most American ofm games ” I speak of NFL football ” on nbc I watch somthing else untill sphinter boy is gone. Which brings up the point that nbc should have no NFL.

Tammy   November 18th, 2009 - 11:12 am

Truth Be Told

Oh, yeah. Check out this video of your innocent cronies doing the rioting.

http://www.breitbart.tv/illegal-alien-amnesty-supporters-assault-tea-party-protesters/

Run along now.

Oxford Staff   November 18th, 2009 - 11:16 am

This just in: New words for consideration. accepting definitions. Haybagger-Harry Reid, brownbagger-Nancy Pelosi, Sandbagger- Barry Soetoro, Manbagger-Barney Frank, Doublebagger-Nancy Pelosi.

wendy   November 18th, 2009 - 11:38 am

If they can call us teabaggers, and say it on the air ALL the time, it’s time we call them what they are OAL’s (Obama A** lic*kers)

LvK   November 18th, 2009 - 11:48 am

I never realized that teabaggers where queers that hang bags from their glasses to simulate male organs dangling in their faces. But that does explain a lot…

craig   November 18th, 2009 - 12:04 pm

I love it!!! 6+ minutes on a derogatory word. Keith undeniably secures his place at the bottom of the barrel. No one better to marginalize Keith Olbermann then… well…. Keith Olbermann.

I am a little surprised that the homosexual community isn’t up in arms having to share their term-of-endearment with such sickening people as the the Tea Party Protestors.

XrayEye   November 18th, 2009 - 1:58 pm

Most certainly there are more REAL teabaggers on the left and in the democratic party

Cognitive Dissident   November 18th, 2009 - 2:07 pm

hahahaaahaaa teabaggers.

cowboybob   November 18th, 2009 - 2:12 pm

Obersuc is probably the worlds most prominent expert on “teabagging” in the context he uses it!

Richard of Oregon   November 18th, 2009 - 4:08 pm

I am proud to be an American teabagger for freedom!

Campbell   November 18th, 2009 - 4:19 pm

I am a proud tea party protester! Call me what you will, it does not matter that much, the louder and more vile are your protests, the more scared I know you are. But Bill Clinton, I have defended you, even forgave you your lying and disgraceful behavior during the Monica episode, but calling me a teabagger, well, you are no longer someone I respect. I am now as repulsed at you as I am the gutter-word you called me.

Dani Dimps   November 18th, 2009 - 4:24 pm

Hey–It is what it is. Call me a Tea Bagger. I do not mind—in fact I am PROUD of what I stand for regardless of WHAT you call me. But Bubba–I am not filled with hate. I am a loving and caring CHRISTIAN who forgives YOU for hating. I am—with the rest of the TEABAGGERS–exercising my God Given right to question our government’s spending us into bankruptcy, taking our rights away and destroying a country built on freedoms. It is because we are free that you can have the thoughts and feelings and publish them they way you do. Continue to hate and disguise it as love and Karma and you will be left with no rights, no freedoms, no choice and the government in your living room giving away all of your money…or maybe you are ok with entitlements. Maybe you choose NOT to work. Maybe that is why you DONT like capitalism. Just do me a favor…Do not spread my wealth around while you make your Karma Rally signs—-Spread My Work Ethic. And if you truly believe in Karma, and what goes around comes around….you should not be referring to conservatives as haters. We really would call the ambulance for you. Regardless of your beliefs, race, sexual choices or who you voted for. We would even call for Keith Oberman. Anyone???

Diego   November 18th, 2009 - 7:11 pm

Um… it was MSNBC that started the so-called joke. Actual tea party goers never used the term. Looking for some type of relevance, Olbykins and his ilk flooded the media with the name. Pretty stupid on his part, as usual.

Devin   November 18th, 2009 - 8:13 pm

I frequent a lot of conservative forums and listen to conservative talk radio, and have done so for years. Olbermann is flat-out lying. As Diego said, the only people to refer to Tea Partiers as “teabaggers” were the Left, after mainstream media anchorpeople – including Olbermann – deliberately and derogatively used the term in their scant, behind-the-times news coverage of the Tea Party Protests.

Olbermann is obviously quite pleased with himself for initiating this blatant smear campaign. Despite his self-satisfied grins and outright assertions to the contrary, the Tea Party protests have been a *uniting* force in the Republican base, not a divisive one.

Leave it to fools like Olbermann and his blow-dried, cosmetically-enhanced ilk to completely disregard the historical resonance of a political action, especially one that any schoolchild should be able to identify. It’s a sign of decadence, typical of the decayed values of the celebrity elite.

It’s also precisely why Americans are ignoring the mainstream media in droves.

Geoff   November 18th, 2009 - 8:14 pm

Everytime one of these mean spirited haters uses the term “Teabagger” he or she should be asked if the “have an obsession with scrotums?” or “Why do you refer to sucking a scrotum in this conversation?”

It would end in a heartbeat.

insolublog   November 18th, 2009 - 8:29 pm

I am proud to say I had no idea what the term ‘teabagger’ meant, until it was explained to me by a liberal pervert, who was personally familiar with the term, using it to insult me.

TheWorldIsBurning   November 19th, 2009 - 2:37 pm

You are all forgetting video gaming influence on this term. Teabagging and being a tea bagger, while rooted in a sexual act… really got popular in online gaming…. as a way of humiliating a downed opponent.

Teabagging: repeatedly crouching over a downed opponent in an online video game.

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