Ok, so I am not sure we have ever linked to Fox News, and this is a little juvenile, but hey, Doug Henwood posted it at lbo-talk. My three favorite bits: (1) The author sniggers about "teabagging," but then expresses fake scorn for "frat house humor." Meanwhile, I know about teabagging from a highly reputable source: John Waters' fabulous movie Pecker (a must see--Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Mary Kay Place, Lili Taylor, Mink Stole, Patricia Hearst, etc.). (2)This quote: "I think what that reveals is how worried they are that this might actually be something serious. You make fun of things you're afraid of, I'd say." (3) The spectacle of Anderson Cooper talking about teabagging with a straight face.
Incidentally, I saw some of the teabagger folks on the Blue Line in Boston on Wednesday (I was on my way back to East Boston; they were, I'm guessing, coming back from Fanieuil Hall or the U.S.S. Constitution or something). They looked like nice folks.
Anyhow, here's the whole article; or you can read it below. (N.B.: the link below, Click here to join a discussion on teabagging, was actually part of the FoxNews.com story. If you click on it, you will go to their site, which you might not want to. The comments in the "forum" on teabagging are actually pretty amusing, though.)
Cable Anchors, Guests Use Tea Parties as Platform for Frat House Humor
Click here to join a discussion on teabagging.
--CS