Teabagging Humor Roundup
Thursday April 16, 2009
The anti-tax "Teabagging" protests held across the country were met this week with widespread mockery from all comers -- from cable news talking heads to the late-night comics to Internet jokesters.
The right-wing protesters who staged the rallies may have been oblivious to the true meaning of "teabagging," but that just made taunting them all the funnier.
MSNBC's David Shuster described the parties as "full-throated" and "toothless," adding that they wanted to give Obama a "strong tongue-lashing and lick government spending." He also joked that the GOP was "going nuts" for teabagging but would "need a Dick Armey."
CNN's Anderson Cooper helpfully observed that "it's hard to talk when you're teabagging."
MSNBC's Keith Olbermann wryly reported on the protests by noting that after all the "anticipation and buildup," the teabagging "exploded" all cross America," with teabaggers claiming high taxes have "brought them to their knees."
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox also had fun at the teabaggers' expense, with Cox asking, "Who wouldn't want to tea bag John McCain?"
Late-Night Teabagging Jokes
The late-night comedians also piled on with their own teabagging ridicule.
Jon Stewart noted the irony in people buying a million tea bags to protest wasteful spending, and pointed out the absurdity of FOX News becoming the voice of the people's revolution.
Daily Show correspondent John Oliver attended a tea party and discovered that Americans don't know anything about tyranny.
Stephen Colbert took issue with the gross misrepresentation of what teabagging is all about and said, "How dare these perverts sully the patriotic act of a taxpayer rising up, standing over his government, and delivering his opinion into the mouth of power!"
Jimmy Kimmel: "Some Americans did a very dumb thing today. They had tea party protests. They've been mailing tea bags to Congress to I guess express their dissatisfaction with taxes and government spending because nothing shakes a politician up like a complimentary bag of tea. 'Hey if you don't straighten up next year, crumpets, buddy.'" --Jimmy Kimmel
Jay Leno: "A lot of protests today. Thousands of people had these tea parties, during which they protested higher taxes. But here in L.A., it was called the Green Herbal Double Decaf Tea Party." --Jay Leno
Read more late-night jokes...
More Teabagging Insani-Tea
Teabagging Cartoons (About.com)
Down With Sodomy, Up With Teabagging (Daily Kos)
10 Most Offensive Tea Party Signs (HuffPost)
The "Tea Bag" Revolution's Unfortunate Name Choice (HuffPost)
Confused Adult Film Stars Attend 'Tea-bagging' Rally (Apoliticus)
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Comments
I nearly choked on my tea bag when I read that Andersen Cooper quote. Hilarious!
This may be the dumbest mass movement in the history of America. But I have to give a tip of the hat, because if it weren’t for all the deranged conservative wingnuts, who else would we have to laugh at?
You liberals just keep on laughing. The tea bagging was more of a success than you are trying to make people think. Laugh Laugh and Laugh but the people will come back and haunt all of you.
Interesting that you think conservatives don’t know what teabagging means, but apparently you didn’t read what TEA (TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY) stood for or remember your history of the Boston Tea Party (think back, surely you must have learned about it in school). You obviously don’t know what the whole TEA party issue was about. It wasn’t Republican sponsored, it was a conservatives’ statement and once-again, liberals don’t check the facts, nor did the media use fairness in reporting, but then I wouldn’t have expected anything else. It’s a shame that you think it’s okay to spend money we don’t have and that it’s okay to pile it onto future generations and the President signs off on it without reading the bill. That’s like handing someone a blank check and not even knowing how they will spend it. Crazy. Are the left-leaning so scared of opposition they must resort to crude humor and rudeness?
Two comments one to Grant and another to Maddox & Cox. The Boston TEA party was using “loose tea”. They never used the expression, “tea-bagging”. I would suggest that you google the expression and goto the first response. It could be the reason the McCain picked Sarah. It is amazing that when some people stick there foot in their mouth, don’t admit their mistake, but would rather stick the other foot in the same cavity.
It amazes me to be called a liberal by all these “tea party” conservatives . Who was it that left office with a 1.7 trillion dollar national debt ? Who was it that sat on his thumbs in the white house while knowing that Rome was burning and then issued blank checks worth Billions of dollars to wall street, AIG , etc. Who was it that knew our country was going into a deep ditch for eight years and now they dont want to pay the tow truck to get us out of the ditch and running again.. Are these the ones that are called “conservatives”, or(Republicans) ? Its my thought that they (the conservatives), stop their raving and ranting and realize that our president was elected by a majority of Americans , and by a large margin I might add . That must mean , in my opinion, they are (or were) fed up with “conservatives” who think they are right or know all there is to know. There are also many Democrats (liberals) who fall into the category as mentioned above ..
Its my belief and many other Americans ,that we should back our president and support him . If we think he has not done a good job , then in three years and seven months we can elect a new president .. Until then , lets just sit down and act like the great country we are instead of putting on ridiculous demonstrations like ,a tea party ?
LOL, the one thing Republicans are good for? Mocking. They’re so bitter; all they have is their tea bags. Jesus, are they amusing.
Yes, the crazed Right-Wingers (read Obama-haters/racists) WOULD be good for a long laugh IF they weren’t also psychotic and linked to the white-supremacist groups they SAY they’re not recruiting! That’s the scary part.
As for christy grant’s and others’ insulting of Liberals not knowing about the Boston Tea Party and making statements such as: “It’s a shame that you think it’s okay to spend money we don’t have and that it’s okay to pile it onto future generations and the President signs off on it without reading the bill”, uh…where were all of YOU when Dubya was doing JUST this…and a hundred times worse?! We are IN this mudhole because of HIS Feed the Rich administration! WAKE UP!
I wasn’t sure if I had left a comment previously or not but I’m the photographer who took the “Down With Sodomy Up With Teabagging” picture at the top of your post.
I’m glad you enjoyed it!
We got teabagged for the last 8 years, but somehow that was OK?
Now we get to say it to all you loud-mouthed neoCONS – WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA SO MUCH? And who ran up all this debt, anyways???
You would rather see us turned into a Somalia, so you could ride in and rescue us by turning America into another Iran! The Ayatola Cheney awaits your movement.
Hey bigchief, sure president bush may have left a 1.7 trillion dollar debt, barack obama has it sitting at 12 trillion now