Yes, exactly. And I'm pretty sure you aren't HitlerJ
Andy Wolodkin
From: Paul C Bernhardt [mailto:pcbernha...@frostburg.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:34 PM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: Re: [tips] How To Watch Your F'n' Language
Then, almost certainly you would be interested in the Rally to Restore
Sanity
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/
In the announcement video he calls out not only FoxNews talking heads,
but also MSNBC talking heads.
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-16-2010/rally-to-restore
-sanity
Paul C Bernhardt
Frostburg State University
Frostburg, MD, USA
pcbernhardt[at]frostburg[d0t]edu
On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Vincent Wolodkin wrote:
Well, I guess I was half right (perhaps much more than half). Maddow
was the first to use it derisively, and she certainly had the largest
audience. But as you point out, there was ONE guy with ONE sign at a
rally in February that used the term teabag and there was a libertarian
website that used the phrase Tea Bag as a verb in a headline for a
story that advocated mailing tea bags to elected officials.
Perhaps the one guy with the sign was in on the joke, but none of these
folks referred to themselves as teabaggers - ever. And though the
article you provided says that early tea partiers embraced the term,
it's only real evidence is the one guy with the one sign - oh, and an
NRO column wondering whether Tea Partiers should embrace or reject the
term.
So, I think I'll stand by my opinion of Maddow.
But the point here, hopefully not to be lost, was that ALL of the major
news networks promote incivility not only from their talking heads and
their opinion programs, but from their quote-unquote news programs also.
Rutgers faces an extremely uphill battle when even NPR is uncivil -
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047 I wish
them luck, but rather than focus on their student's behavior, they might
have a bigger impact by acting as a Civility Ombudsman, of sorts, to the
news media.
Andy Wolodkin
-Original Message-
From: David Epstein [mailto:da...@neverdave.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:02 AM
To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)
Subject: RE: [tips] How To Watch Your F'n' Language
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Vincent Wolodkin went:
As I recently upbraided some friends about their persistent use of
the term teabagger to describe those who associate with the
Tea
Parties, one might wonder where that term started? I think it
was
Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, those gleaming icons of
objective
journalism;-)
That's not the way I remember it. I'm pretty sure it was like this:
http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-b
agger
|The grassroots movement didn't always consider tea bagger a slur:
|Early Tea Partiers innocently embraced the term until they discovered
|its vulgar connotations
--David Epstein
da...@neverdave.com
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