NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard whines about conservative “tom-tom” outage at “how to speak teabag” animation

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The Tea Bag animation doesn’t fit with NPR values, one of which is a belief in civility and civil discourse.

NPR’s Ombudsman Alicia Shepard still decided to take shots at conservatives and those who are pissed about this “Animation” by Mark Fiore. Shepard does her best to mock angry e-mails by NPR and try and diminish the meaning of the phrase “tea bag” and “tea bagger” that liberals have suddenly latched on to.

Shepard goes on to try to excuse the phrase by using the “new” Oxford American Dictionary definition:

a “tea bagger” is: “a person, who protests President Obama’s tax policies and stimulus package, often through local demonstrations known as “Tea Party” protests (in allusion to the Boston Tea Party of 1773).” “Tea Bagger” was a finalist for the dictionary’s “Word of the Year.”

Yea, i’m sure liberals had this in mind when they came out with the phrase. Surely it has nothing to do with the real definition of Tea Bagging (from Wikipedia):

Teabagging is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion as in irrumatio. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.

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January 8, 2010 · Filed Under Liberal Media Bias, NPR


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