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Right.
It was ok for them to use the term to attack the White House, but then the tea baggers get all pissy when its thrown back at them.
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The problem here is this. The TEA Party (everyone keeps telling me) is mostly made up of old white people who are completely out of touch with popular culture and norms. People like that aren't exactly going to be "hip" to the meaning of the term, especially since they were very obviously applying it to the act of mailing a tea-bag to a legislator. The folks who've since applied the term -to- them, such as Mr. Cooper, are -very- much aware of the word's meaning and have used it as such. One was a malapropism, the other is an insult, and a fairly obscene one at that.
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And I guess its ok for the tea baggers to wave pictures with Obama/Hitler comparisons.
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Of course it is, just like it was ok for anti-Bush folks to wave the same signs with Bush's face.