Anderson Cooper’s sexual-innuendo-laden slur for the Tea Party movement has reached the Oval Office. The New York Times reports:
Mr. Obama, during his private pep talk to Democrats, recognized Mr. Owens election and then posed a question to the other lawmakers. According to Representative Earl Blumenauer of Oregon, who supports the health care bill, the president asked, “Does anybody think that the teabag, anti-government people are going to support them if they bring down health care?
(Emphasis mine.)
In offensiveness, this is basically on a par with a hypothetical Republican president adopting Rush Limbaugh’s “feminazi” slur for extreme abortion supporters.
(Via the Corner.)
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