Obama Team Gay Bashing?
By Larry Johnson on April 15, 2009 at 4:25 PM in Current Affairs
“Tea-baggers.” Boy, that’s a fucking hoot! What better way to disparage those protesting rising taxes and out-of-control government spending then by labeling them as “tea-baggers.”
Tea-bagging, for those of you unschooled in the ways of urban slang, is the term for a man squatting naked over someone’s face and lowering his testicles into the mouth of his partner.
While “tea-bagging” can be a heterosexual activity, it is normally associated with what men do to each other in prison and also is associated with gay men. So my question is this–why are people who think the federal government’s financial house is out of order being labeled as folks eager to suck on a man’s balls? I think it is particularly unseemly that Rachel Maddow should promote a message like this, which is normally used as a smear against gay men.
Finally, these are called “tea parties” not “tea-bagger” parties.






















