Arlo Has a Cuppa

Cidu Bill on Feb 15th 2010

Jeff McAndrew sent this political cartoon that might be better suited for the Arlo Page than for the editorial page

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Filed in Arlo Page, Tea Party, comics, political cartoons | 11 responses so far

11 Responses to “Arlo Has a Cuppa”

  1. Catelli Feb 15th 2010 at 09:23 am 1

    Google just made this a CIDU. There are groups out there self identifying as Boston Tea-Baggers. So is the comic referring to them? If so how is it funny?

    I get what the joke is trying to say, but reality is weirder when the joke.

    Case in point, check out this newsgroups conversation title. Do these people not get the innuendo at all?

  2. Catelli Feb 15th 2010 at 09:25 am 2

    In case the link doesn’t work, the page I’m referring to is this:

    http://groups.google.com/group/alt.politics.bush/browse_thread/thread/d71e9bf4f83ddf6b/c37ac9c624fe58cf?#c37ac9c624fe58cf

  3. yellojkt Feb 15th 2010 at 09:43 am 3

    The Tea Party Movement stylizes themselves as anti-tax patriots in the tradition of the Boston Tea Party from 1773.

    Teabagging is a sex act first made popular in the John Waters movie Pecker (1998).

    Liberals like to use ‘teabagger’ as a smirky disparaging term for self-proclaimed tea partyers.

  4. yellojkt Feb 15th 2010 at 09:50 am 4

    The Tea Party Movement take their name from the colonial tax protesters. Teabagging is a sexual practice first popularized in the John Waters movie ‘Pecker’ and is a disparaging term used by liberals, often with a smirk.

  5. Bob in Nashville Feb 15th 2010 at 09:53 am 5

    Actually, it’s about the liberal strawman teaching revisionist history to put down the Boston Teaparty, after which the lunatic fringe on the right named their movement, as opposed to criticizing just the movement that flatters itself with the comparison.

  6. Nicole Feb 15th 2010 at 11:00 am 6

    here is a clip from the Rachel Madow show… yes I know she is a lesbian liberal, but embedded at about 53 seconds is a clip from Fox News talking about “tea bagging the White House” … Yes liberals do use it in a pejorative way, but that is because at the beginning of the movement the the right was using the term not really knowing what it meant. The left just ran with it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xrxGd7sKNE

  7. yellojkt Feb 15th 2010 at 11:01 am 7

    Catelli,
    The headline writer was clearly not the author of the article being cited. I suspect the multiple levels of entendre were deliberate.

  8. Rebecca Feb 15th 2010 at 01:50 pm 8

    I’ve heard and seen tea-partiers calling themselves “teabaggers”. Ultimately, who really cares about the scrotal double-entendre? It’s funny!

  9. Keera Feb 15th 2010 at 03:28 pm 9

    What cracks me up is when they start waving signs like “I’m teabagging 4 Jesus” (I’ll let you google so I don’t end up in the moderation queue).

    What would Jesus do? Keep his mouth SHUT! ;-)

  10. Kit Feb 15th 2010 at 04:42 pm 10

    “Teabagging” is also a gamer term for /sitting on the (face of the) corpse of someone you’ve PK’d.

  11. chuckers Feb 16th 2010 at 04:56 am 11

    Some of us aren’t up on the latest Arlo-esque patois (at least in English) so I wouldn’t have voted for an Arlo award. And sometimes a teabag is just a teabag.

    This interweb thingie is really educational but honestly, I could have gone my entire life without knowing things like “donkey punch” (learnt from another website mentioned in passing.)

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