Fauxgressive
Jane Hamsher is a hypocrite. So is Pam Spaulding, and Rachel Maddow, and just about every other member of the fauxgressive blogosphere/MSM. I point these three out in particular because they should know better than to use language that is degrading to both gays and women, especially after they have themselves been so critical of such language in the past.
Almost a year ago now, I wrote one of my very first posts as a blogger about then NC governor Mike Easley’s endorsement of Hillary Clinton in the NC primary. I even attended the event myself. During the endorsement Easley made a remark that Hillary Clinton’s strength made Rocky Balboa “look like a pansy”. Maybe the governor made a poor choice of words, but the context in which he said it in no way was meant to mock anyone, and did not appear to be a deliberate slur against gays. That didn’t stop the Obamasphere from smearing Hillary as being allied with a raging homophobe. This is what Pam had to say:
…so why didn’t our outgoing governor just go ahead and say “faggot”?
Note that Hillary, who was right there with the NC gov, said nothing about his remark.
Rachel Maddow was equally offended:
Towards the end of the 2nd hour of her Air America show tonight, Rachel Maddow denounced and rejected Governor Mike Easley’s
use of the word ‘pansy‘ in his endorsement of Hillary Clinton today. Maddow also noted her disappointment that her fellow
Self Righteous
commentators on MSNBC’s Race for the Whitehouse just chuckled at the joke Easley made.
Rachel made it clear that in her opinion, Hillary had just lost the ‘pansy vote’ of which she considered herself a part (though it doesn’t sound like she is ready to endorse Obama yet.)
This continues the pattern of Hillary or her surrogates dismissing, demeaning, or disrespecting the constituents that make up the base support of the Democratic party. Whether it is race-baiting remarks, slamming Move-On, calling Barack’s well off and well educated supporters elitist, or now “the pansy vote” it seems that soon the only voters that Hillary will treat as if they matter are the Fox News viewers she’ll be courting on the Bill O’Reilly show tomorrow.
That last paragraph is kind of superfluous, but I think it is a much needed reminder of the slanderous things that the obots were saying about us at the time. Not to mention the irony that they were accusing us of the very thing that Obama himself was doing.
But let’s move on. Teddy on Jane Hamsher’s blog Firedoglake got into the “Clinton is a homophobe” bashing as well:
Easley’s a lame duck, and with incredibly important down-ticket primaries keeping Democratic activists busy, his endorsement may not carry the weight of her gubernatorial endorsements in Ohio and Pennsylvania. His political machines’s operatives are probably otherwise engaged in the primaries for governor and U.S. Senate.
Still, can we get a little “denounce and reject” action from Hillary Clinton about Governor Easley’s use of the word pansy at her endorsement party?
Fast forward to this week and the extremely popular “Tea Party” protests that took place across the country yesterday. These same fauxgressives did their best to paint these protesters simultaneously as racist, right wing nutjobs and professional astroturfers. They pulled out all the stops to try to discredit them. They even did a lot of mutual back patting for being clever enough to use the term “teabaggers” to describe the protesters. If 10th grade locker room humor could be considered “clever” that is.
This is what Jane Hamsher had to say about the protesters:
…they swell with teabaggy pride at the thought that they’ve demonstrated their awesome “power” to cowering liberals. If people tuned in because they are genuinely concerned about government spending, they were most likely left scratching their heads and wondering what his was all about, because the message dangled before the public by the teabaggers was something quite different.
Hypocrite
And from Pam Spaulding:
Poor RNC Chairman Michael Steele- no one remembers that he is the leader of the GOP party and no one wants to teabag him. Although he claims that’s not true and is just a rumor- LOTS want to tea bag him! It’s all just a matter of miscommunication and timing…
But you might want to watch this informational clip provided by Rachel Maddow and guest Anna Marie Cox. I had no idea what teabagging even was, let alone that so many Republicans were into it!
Here is the Beavis and Butthead Maddow and Cox clip she was referring to:
You see, “teabagging” is a reference to a sexual act. It is almost always used to describe women, and particularly gay men, in a derogatory manner. The implication is that only a “slut” or a “fag” would do something so degrading (from their point of view). Of course these hypocrites would probably say that they are just having fun with a little word play, and that the term in no way is specifically meant to degrade women or gays. That is bullshit. Take a look at the examples of the cultural use of the term, from wikipedia:
One track on rapper Ludacris‘ 2004 album Chicken & Beer is a skit labeled “T Baggin’”. It is a parody of phone messages that require the dialer to press a number for a service. It says, “If you woke up with a hangover and a pair of hairy balls on your forehead, press “7″. You pressed “7″. You’ve just been victimized and introduced to a moral crime known as “teabaggin’”. We suggest you promptly hang up the phone, beat the ass of any white guys you hung out with last night, and find and destroy all photos before they appear on the Internet. Thank you for calling. Good luck. Goodbye.”
In the NBC crime-drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode “Heat”, a male murder suspect was said to have teabagged his college fraternity before being thrown out of it.
In the television show Kenny vs. Spenny during a humiliation, both Kenny and Spenny were teabagged by the crew members after a draw on a competition.
In the television show My Name Is Earl in the episode “Girl Earl,” a grocery store bagger (Played by Jon Heder) returns home to find his house vandalized, and robbed of all his furniture and belongings. He then sees spray painted on the wall across from him the line, “Teabagger, get it?”
In fact, if you follow the link in Pam’s post to what teabagger means it takes you to the urban dictionary definition of the word. One of the synonyms that it lists is “fagbag”, which is defined as such:
Another name for calling someone a faggot.
So Pam, why didn’t YOU just call THEM faggots? You self-righteous hypocrite. And there is no denying the context here. It isn’t just a poor word choice. It is meant as mockery and to humiliate the tea party protesters. You know, what homophobic, sexist terms like this were designed for.
I’m sick of these people trying to claim the moral high ground when they are just as nasty and mean spirited as the wingnuts they rail against. Pam Spaulding et al. are just the mirror image of the likes of Michelle Malkin and Rush Limbaugh. As far as I’m concerned they can all go to hell.
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