Bill Maher "I will stop calling them teabaggers when they stop calling it Obamacare"

[HolyCity2012]

Run time: 10:28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0xioVJMTCk   Posted on YouTube: April 26, 2011 By YouTube Member: indigenous2logic Views on YouTube: 964   Posted on DU: April 26, 2011 By DU Member: HolyCity2012 Views on DU: 2605

 
"I will stop calling them teabaggers when they stop calling it Obamacare"
By Sahil Kapur
04.26.11

Bill Maher went on yet another rant against the tea party movement Monday night, calling them “sad unfortunate people” who are “corporate America’s useful idiots.” The comedian and HBO host said he’d “have more respect for them if they knew a thing.”

“I don’t have any respect for the teabaggers, and I do call them teabaggers, even though they hate it,” Maher said during an appearance on David Letterman’s show. Then he made them an offer: “I will stop calling them teabaggers when they stop calling it Obamacare.”

CBS silenced out the word “teabaggers” each of the three times Maher said it.

http://www.rawstory.com/rawreplay/2011/04/maher-i-will-stop-calling-them-teabaggers-when-they-stop-calling-it-obamacare/

[tclambert]

1. "It's hard to tell what's on Sarah Palin's mind."

Well, now, Bill, you just need one o' them Scanning Tunneling Microscopes. It's good to 0.1 nanometer resolution. OK, you still need to squint.

[BOHICA12]

2. Both labels have stuck ....

.... and there is no un-sticking them.

[Randypiper]

3. I was shocked they censored teabaggers

and I was wonder if it was my local station that censored it three times.

[RoccoR5955]

4. I'll do the same as Bill.

Sounds like a sane point.

[caraher]

5. I love that they censor the word.

It only calls attention to it.

It also shows whose sensibilities the corporate media respect.

[szatmar666]

6. I'll stop calling him Boner when he stops calling us the "democrat party"

[Populist_Prole]

7. Clairvoyance! Exactly what I was going to say.

The whole "democrat party" used to be uttered by just a few RW pundits and mouthpieces, now it's said by actual members of the house and senate. Very unprofessional and just shows the petty spitefulness of the far right these days.

We should ( and I will ) hammer every righties sore point all the harder with insults. So they don't like "teabagger". Tough shit. They're the throglodytal ( is that a word? ) jackasses that applied the name to themselves in the first place. You've painted yourselves into a corner you screaming pot bellied imbeciles.

[szatmar666]

9. this whole topic btw, as funny as it is, it's also a real distraction it was designed to be

"Divide and conquer"! while infantilizing a whole nation.

[The Wizard]

8. I'll stop calling them teabaggers

when they all die.

[bjobotts]

10. Good one.-ha lol for the Wizard's comment.This vid was a treat.

[bjobotts]

11. Palin wants the GOP to learn to "fight like a girl".while she keeps trying to be a man.

[szatmar666]

12. LOL! lot of sexual confusion in that tent ;)

[Ken Burch]

14. And that gives the word "tent" SEVERAL different meanings...

(use your imagination, people)

[JHB]

13. I call them "teabaggers for three reasons...

1) That's what they called themselves until enough people were laughing at them over it;
2) That other definition isn't really part of my world either, so I'll spot them for not knowing it. Won't let them off the hook, though.
3) Because what they're doing bears no resemblance to the Boston Tea Party and its participants. The Boston patriots destroyed a lot of valuable property of one of the largest and most politically well-connected corporations of its day, and act that could very well have turned into a violent confrontation, and did precipitate a military crackdown by an authoritarian government on the whole population.

They had a word for people like the "Tea Partiers" back then: Tories.

[HolyCity2012]

15. Tea Party Has Political Agenda to Ignore Science

From Tea Party activists to the Koch brothers, conservationist Ellie Cohen speaks out against opposition to environmental reforms. Cohen argues that the evidence supporting global warming is sound, and encourages scientists and environmentalists to continue fighting for political action on the issue.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x575686

[Keith Bee]

16. Easy K&R on that one

[democracy1st]

17. K & R

[FourScore]

18. WTF? That was completely unnecessary censorship. n/t

[Quantess]

19. Waah! Can't say "teabagger"

K & R