Every once in a while, Matt Drudge churns up quite the scoop. Today is one of those days. He’s focused on health care, and that means a cluster of headlines, one of which is just… well, it’s just scathing!
Get ready to be indignant over how mean and offensive Barack Obama is to the gays, everyone!
In Drudge font:
Dem Congressman says Obama called opposition: 'Teabag, anti-government people'...
The link goes to a New York Times blog post, and quotes Oregon Congressman Earl “The Pearl” Blumenauer. According to Blumenauer:
[The] president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care? All it will do is confuse and dispirit” Democratic voters “and it will encourage the extremists.”
Oh snap! He called the tea party people teabaggers! Why would he do such a thing? Maybe there’s a clue in the same blog post?
In the [New York 23] campaign, Mr. Owens gave unabashed support to the pending House health care bill, despite the opposition of national conservative groups, including the new Tea Party Patriots, who backed Mr. Owens’s conservative rival.
Oh, so it’s because conservatives who are opposing — among other things — health care are calling themselves Tea Party Patriots. They’re also throwing tea parties, and, perhaps most importantly, they’re acting kinda ghey. Matt Drudge wasn’t the only one offended, though. Over at RedState, Robert A. Hahn called it a “disgusting gay-baiting slur.” He added:
Call me an old-timer, but I can remember when U.S. Presidents had class. They might have called their political opponents any number of things in private, but you would not hear of them demeaning American citizens.
It is a measure of how low-rent Professional Democrats have become that The New York Times reports this as though sexual slurs were not a new low in presidential discourse… merely another term that ‘progessives’ use every day to refer to their subhuman opponents.
The thing that’s lost on people like Hahn and secretly-gay Matt Drudge is that the Republican Party — not just fringe conservatives — has pushed the teabagger nonsense. They haven’t just pushed the actions and ideas; they’ve actually pushed the name.
From GOP.com:
So there. They’ve called themselves teabaggers, and they’ve encouraged Republicans to teabag Harry Reid, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. They’re all teabagging all the time!
Perhaps even worse, over at the National Review in September, Jay Nordlinger wrote that it was time for the beaten-down conservatives to take the word and make it their own. In perhaps the most tin-eared effort of his blogging career, he wrote:
It could be that conservatives will “own the insult” and use “teabagger” as a badge of honor. It could become some proud conservative N-word. President Reagan said, “I’m a contra, too.” Well, I’m a teabagger too — and the Anderson Cooper types can [go jump in a lake].
So they can call themselves teabaggers, but don’t anyone else dare use that word on them! That’s THEIR word!
For these imbeciles to say that President Obama lacks class is so ridiculous that I cannot really muster any sort of reasoned response.