...people will not understand this phony "protest". This "Tea Bagging" party is nothing but a bunch of cowardly, zero information voters exposing their blinding hatred for Obama thru total ignorance regarding what the President is attempting to do for them.

Celebrate 'Tea bag' day....by drinking tea all day long....if you happen to go by one of these moronic & history ignoring 'events'...please remember to shout the following: "Get A Job!" "Go to work you lazy bums" "Treasonous Pigs" "Fascist lunatics" (return the favor that they 'in kind' shouted during our protests of the hundreds of crimes perpetrated on this country during the 8 years of the Bush Crime Family)
For details, see the hundreds of crimes here - http://www.netrootsmass.net/hughs-bush-scanda...
Check out #400 - Of the 2922 days Bush was President he spent all or part of 1,020 on vacation (35% of his time in office). This includes 487 days at Camp David, 490 at his ranch in Crawford, and 43 days at his family’s compound in Kennebunkport. If there is one word which typifies this and Bush, it is AWOL. The man has been AWOL his whole life.

really crazy that anyone can look at watch that station and think that they are "Fair and Balanced". These guys have been pimping this thing non-stop for weeks now. Grass roots my ass.

As shameful as it is to admit, I have actually teabagged a Republican before. That's what he gets for not being able to hold his liquor -- and puking all over my bathroom!

We should come up with a special definition for "Fox Tea Bagging"
To define how a Fox tea bagging would be done.

I get what they're going to show on TV for the first 3-5 minutes, but from what I've seen, today will be "The Fox News Channel 24 hour Tea Party." What the heck are they going to show? I mean, I guess all their talking heads have the ability to ramble on about socialism and how "Obama is a fascist" all day long, but won't it get really repetitive quickly?

Will they be brave enough to interview any participants live, without any pre-screening? Or do you think they are smart enough to realize that the probability of getting a birther/gold-standard/miltia nutjob type are just way too high?

I can't wait until May 15th, when its been a month and nothing has changed and nobody cares about the stupid teabaggers anymore.

Numerous times in my life I've seen hundreds of thousands gather, march, and protest for or against a cause, with little to no affect. Its disheartening, and sometimes I feel silly for even bothering to try to protest the powers that be.

But, this is just silly. A bunch of loons who are simply bitter that their crazy party with their crazy VP candidate lost the election and they honestly act as if the other few hundred million of us who live in America should stop everything we're doing to cater to a few dozen gunnuts, jesus freaks, and conspiracy theorists.

Very amusing but you can't rip into someone for lousy or non-existent journalism and then present a five minute montage in lieu of a report. Even the "fake news" Daily Show puts more effort in.

I know this was the throwaway item at the end of the show but I do expect a little better from something that proports to be a newscast.

The Teabag Party. Gingrich/Palin 2012!

If ya can't beat 'em, mock 'em.

...here's Cartman's tea party from South Park...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JchKa8Ox3Hs

Obviously those teabagging today must be so comfortable that they don't have to worry about missing a day's pay from work...must be nice...

Me? I gotta work. I'm gettin to one of them. It's funny. We never talk, and when we do it's always cordial. But for some reason, this one guy is starting to get weird.
They don't like to talk politics with me.
This one guy in particular won't even talk to me now.LOL.
Well, it's off to work. I wonder how this day will play out?
See Ya'll later.

talk about sending Tea Bags to Washington through the mail and they don't even notice the irony of using the "Socialist" post office to to get their message against "Socialism" to Washington. These people should really try thinking for themselves sometime.

I apologize if someone has raised this point before, but I've never seen it mentioned on any blogs dealing with the teabagging situation.

The reference is to the Boston Tea Party, and the (assumed) protest is against taxation. That isn't what the Boston Tea Party was about. It seems that the right wingnuts are distorting history once again.

The Boston Tea Party occurred because Lord North was trying to dump inferior East Indian tea into the colonial market -- a misguided attempt to stave off bankruptcy in the East India Company. The glut of "fire sale" tea threatened the profits of American merchants -- of which John Hancock was one of the largest -- and since several of the American radicals were already angry at Parliament for other intrusions such as the Stamp Act, etc., the Boston Tea Party occurred. But it was not a specific protest against taxation.

The result of the Boston Tea Party was almost total condemnation by most Americans -- Ben Franklin was one of the most vocal Big Names who condemned the action. The Fox zombies don't seem to understand any of the dynamic that created the Boston Tea Party, and who came out in protest of that event itself.

No wonder we scratch our heads over the actions of these sore losers.

...has John Waters been through all this?

He should be at one of the parties with Ed Furlong, signing copies of 'Pecker',...

...the real strategy meeting between Roger Ailes and Glenn Dreck

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqEcLlp_Big

"All necessities provided,
all anxieties tranquilized,
all boredom amused."

That gay guy from "Morons in the Morning" knows what teabagging is.

person (if you aren't one already) and keep pushing a shopping cart into the center of the rally, trying to maximize your exposure on TV.

When do the South Park kids show up and tell the irrational mob the whole thing is a phony scam and Fox News hosts are aliens?

it's difficult for teh Faux News shills to keep up the facade of "hundreds of thousands" of protesters.

In stark contrast, I was at the first protest against the illegal invasion of Iraq, and watched in amazement as camera crews scanned the sparse edges of the enormous groups of protesters there that day. The camera shots I later watched on television clearly promoted the MSM meme that only 'tens of thousands' of people were protesting.

I guess I'll wait until this evening's news to see how "fair and balanced" the coverage will be...

No! This is NOT a slap at Obama! This is America crying out for some semblance of sanity in an insane situation.

These people are patriots who are concerned that the Constitution of the United States is being trampled on. They are sick and tired of being robbed of their tax dollars and realizing this money is going to greedy, incompetent, corporate fatcats who have more money than they could possibly need to live a comfortable life. My god, people. They are exercising their first amendment right....

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances".

Where were these teabag folks when Dubya was in office? That president had some core beliefs that were impervious to any empirical qualification.

A case in point: Lower taxes were always good, regardless of the economic climate. In his campaign, Dubya defended his tax cuts as a way to ensure that the burgeoning surplus he inherited would not be swallowed up by government. When the economy sank in the wake of the bursting tech-bubble and 9/11, Dubya defended the tax cuts on opposite grounds: they were necessary as a Keynesian demand stimulus in a contracting economy. When deficits soared in his first term, Dubya cited keeping the tax cuts as a way to prevent a new recession, and thereby prevent future deficits. It soon became apparent that the tax cuts were simply a matter of faith, unrelated to any empirical context or consistent rationale. Even if you supported the tax cuts, it was impossible logically to support every argument Dubya made in their defense, because they were mutually contradictory and constantly changing.

Try this experiment: Under what circumstances would Dubya actually raise taxes? Not for war; not for soaring deficits; not even with annual growth nearing 4 percent. Only one thing you could say for sure: Dubya never defended cutting taxes as a way to curtail the power and scope of government. Nor did he ever insist on balancing the government's books to keep the next generation out of perilous and mounting debt. That sort of conservatism was over. The proof of that came in the staggering expansion of government power and spending under Dubya.

And most of Dubya's tax cuts were back-loaded, with their real costs shunted a few years into the future. The same could be said for Dubya's championing of a dramatic new expansion of Medicare, the government health-care program for the elderly. Put those together and peer toward the horizon and the bankrupting of the American government comes into sharper focus. Barack Obama didn't cause the current day problems; he inherited this mess.