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Oxford Dictionary Lets MSNBC Off The Hook For Teabagger Abuse

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  • ImNotBlue

    What’s really funny is that the folks who have joked this into existence, are about to joke it back out again. When it was a rare term, it was funny… but now it seems that the “Tea Party” definition is about to usurp it, thanks to KO, Maddow, Schuster, and the like. They will have effectively redefined the term AWAY from a humorous naughty thing… and into a more serious and adult term. How very interesting…

    I wonder if they have time to look up the word, “backfired.”

    (Oh, and I guess I’m supposed to throw in a pun too… a personal specialty of mine, and I’ll throw down with anyone at anytime…) If this comes full circle, I can’t imagine the folks on the left will be too happy, realizing their juvenile antics have essentially legitimized a term they were using disparagingly. I bet whomever came up with the strategy gets… sacked.

  • dmbream

    This is news?

  • rmbltmbl

    Very easy to see Rules for Radicals when it comes to ‘teabagger’ and I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the folks at New Oxford are liberal all the same as their buddies in academia.. why on earth would they have tackled this otherwise?

  • ImNotBlue

    rmbltmbl says:
    November 18, 2009 at 1:10 pm

    Well, it was a big term this year… a new word, that shows how a (as some would claim) small “mob” of “radicals” went mainstream.

    But by including the word “teabagger,” in the dictionary, and only providing a definition that refers to these folks… not to the other meaning, they are essentially taking away the juvenile-left’s toy. As I said before, the attacks have backfired.

  • libra blue

    Frankly this is the type of juvenile bathroom humor that is usally reserved for immature teenage boys. I find it amusing that there are so many supposedly “mature” men and Maddow, who is obviously suffering from a severe case of penis envy, who are obsessed with it.

  • black leclere

    I’ve never really associated “teabagger”, as used in the modern vernacular, with its more vulgar definition. To me, it means “someone so ignorant as to protest tax increases when they’ve actually been cut, or to pretend that since they didn’t vote for their current congressional representative, they don’t have any representation whatsoever and are therefore suffering under the terrible yoke of unbearable tyranny”.

    see also “Fox News Viewer” and/or “imbecile”

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