[Vision2020] the whole tea party thing

[keely emerinemix]

After Nick's retelling of Tea Partiers reading from the Gospel of Matthew as a preamble to another absurd, not to mention tiresome, call for the President's birth certificate, and Tea Party sweetheart Sarah Palin's explaining that she and God both use palm-inscribed crib notes, I'm relieved to read something intelligent.  Thanks, Dan.

When the whole Tea Party movement hit the national stage, we on the Vizz debated the term "teabaggers," which, actually, I had not ever heard before.  Turns out it's, ummmm, icky.  And rude.  Which makes it a perfect pejorative, and I agree with Dan that we ought to be able to discuss the movement without resorting to such . . . ummmm . . . naked ad-hominens.  

There's enough in the movement to object to, and enough bad behavior on the part of some of its adherents to earn them scorn.  But I think Dan makes a good point.  

Keely
www.keely-prevailingwinds.com




> From: areaman at moscow.com
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 15:28:04 -0800
> Subject: [Vision2020] the whole tea party thing
> 
> Maybe it's just me, but doesn't the term "tea baggers" seem a bit childish
> and petty?  Sounds like something I'd hear from a bunch of Jr. High kids or
> fraternity dinks (no offense meant to those non-dink fraternity members). 
> 
> I cringe every time I see it used, because -- to me -- it seems that while
> trying to insult the tea party movement as a whole, the person using the
> term is stooping to a lowly ad hominem attack, trying to minimize the tea
> party message by using such a euphemism to describe the whole movement.
> 
> I'd think the educated and enlightened masses that partake of the Vizzz
> wouldn't stoop to such a level.
> 
> Again, maybe it's just me, but words mean things.
> 
> (of course, someone will come up with the reciprocal version used by the
> "other" side, and I'll tell ya, I don't like that either)
> 
> Your pal
> 
> DC
> 
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