Next to outrage, that is:
In a press release touting “unfriend” as the word of the year, the New Oxford American Dictionary may have unwittingly made a more controversial move than the New Oxford American Dictionary pretty much ever does.
No, it wasn’t another cutesy tech neologism: they included “teabagger” as one of their Word of the […]

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Punking the teabaggers. Hilarious and - surprise! - not real hard, either.

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After being nailed by Jon Stewart, for showing footage to suggest last week’s “Super Bowl of Freedom” was better attended than it was.
Will Bunch on why it’s important:
For Fox News, which has stepped up its partisan cheerleading for the right wing since Barack Obama became president, size — of anti-administration protests, that is — matter. […]

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You watch this stuff and it strikes you that a significant percentage of the teabag crowd, no idea just how many, were the people who had those “Thank you, President Bush” signs stuck in their lawns about this time last year.
And at about 3:27 Brad asks the question I asked in the print edition last […]

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Yeah, well, the teabag rallies are all running together for me too, so why not Hannity?

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Sullivan links to a Politics Daily story describing yesterday’s teabaggery:
The angry folks at the protest — which attracted several thousand conservatives — held up signs with messages of hate: “Get the Red Out of the White House,” “Waterboard Congress,” “Ken-ya Trust Obama?” One called the president a “Traitor to the U.S. Constitution.” Another sign showed […]

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Now this is interesting. The teabaggers have started storming the Bastille Congress - attempting to go shout at representatives who, you know, don’t actually represent their district - but are having a hard time getting in, and TPM is reporting some arrests (with teabaggers hilariously invoking “Letter from a Birmingham Jail.”) Your usual teabag outrage.
But […]

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I’m sorry, but this is just a plain lie:
House Minority Leader John Boehner addressed the tea party crowd on Capitol Hill today, telling them that health care reform is “the greatest threat to freedom” he’s seen as a congressman.
“This bill is the greatest threat to freedom that I’ve seen in the 19 years I’ve been […]

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Gotta say, the narrow victory for Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray really surprised me. I figured he’d win - but by more than a mere 313 votes.
That was pretty close to a repudiation. Dunno if Gray sees it that way - but he should.
The Donegal thing is kind of sad, too. The tax increases - $117 yearly for […]

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Lindsay Graham, of all people, at a town hall meeting where the right-wingers got all up in his face about supporting Sotomayor, among other issues:
“I’m not going to leave the Republican Party,” Graham said when one questioned asked him why he hasn’t yet joined the Democrats. “I’m going to grow it. We’re not going to […]

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“We covered the event. We didn’t promote the event.”
“That’s not what real news organizations are supposed to do.”
“We covered the event. I would invite you to look into the distinction between those two words.”
Come on, Rick. Fair and balanced!
CNN fell down on the job because it didn’t declare the teabag march TEH MOST IMPORTANT PROTEST […]

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Hilarious.
Says John Cole:
Some days I honestly think the current Republican party is little more than a long-running Second City comedy sketch.

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We’ve had a bunch of calls this week wondering why we EEEVIL LIB’RUL MEDIA TYPES didn’t lavish all sorts of coverage on the teabag protests this past weekend.
We gave them exactly as much coverage as we gave the far larger anti-war protests of 2002 and 2003. But see, that’s not good enough for the teabaggers.
Jon […]

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What percentage of these teabaggers, do you think, watch Fox News, and maybe Fox News exclusively?
99 percent? 99.5 percent? OK, OK, maybe that’s overstating it.
98 percent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UASS1qFAIQ8

As Hendrik Hertzberg notes here, the teabag movement is unique in American history because its leadership is entirely comprised of conservative media pundits:
The protesters do not look to politicians for […]

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E-mail this morning:
I read your column regarding healthcare for illeagles.
Do you believe that the democrats will deny care to illeagles?
Well, I know Donovan McNabb’s cracked ribs are going to be an issue, but I don’t think the team is going to ask the taxpayers…
Oh. Right.
First off, did I write a column about “illeagles?” I did […]

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I don’t know that I buy all of this, but portions of it ring a very loud, insistent bell:
Consider America. As good as we are, we have a dark side and our actions often have dark consequences. We are large and cast a large shadow. If we were a more mature people we would simply […]

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OUTRAGE!!!
Update: Hm.

You remember when that MoveOn ad compared Bush to Hitler, the absolute firestorm that erupted when right-wingers snarled, How dare you compare the president to Hitler?
It’s apparently OK now. Good to know.

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Via Kos, I’m against “amensty,” too.
On a related, and funny note:

Fact 1: There is no such thing as a smart angry mob
Do you get the sense that most of the people around you would not be able to provide an intelligent answer if asked why they are assembled? And that those remaining would have vastly different […]

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… it burns.
We got into this yesterday. More from Timothy Noah over at Slate.com:
Outside the school, the Journal’s Jonathan Weisman interviewed Diane Campbell of Kingston, N.H. Campbell’s mother has an autoimmune disease that “is treated with expensive transfusions of gamma globulin, paid for by Medicare.” Campbell’s sister, the story notes, “was born with no arms […]

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Arlen Specter is absolutely right:
Sen. Arlen Specter said Wednesday he thinks people who have been angrily disrupting town hall meetings on overhauling the health care system are “not necessarily representative of America,” but should be heard.
Tell me, how many of the town hall rioters do you think voted for Obama last fall?
***sound of crickets chirping***
Right. […]

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