Then, almost certainly you would be interested in the Rally to Restore Sanity
http://www.rallytorestoresanity.com/ In the announcement video he calls out not only FoxNews talking heads, but also MSNBC talking heads. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-16-2010/rally-to-restore-sanity Paul C Bernhardt Frostburg State University Frostburg, MD, USA pcbernhardt[at]frostburg[d0t]edu On Sep 21, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Vincent Wolodkin wrote: > Well, I guess I was half right (perhaps much more than half). Maddow > was the first to use it derisively, and she certainly had the largest > audience. But as you point out, there was ONE guy with ONE sign at a > rally in February that used the term teabag and there was a libertarian > website that used the phrase "Tea Bag" as a verb in a headline for a > story that advocated mailing tea bags to elected officials. > > Perhaps the one guy with the sign was in on the joke, but none of these > folks referred to themselves as teabaggers - ever. And though the > article you provided "says" that early tea partiers "embraced" the term, > it's only real evidence is the one guy with the one sign - oh, and an > NRO column wondering whether Tea Partiers should embrace or reject the > term. > > So, I think I'll stand by my opinion of Maddow. > > But the point here, hopefully not to be lost, was that ALL of the major > news networks promote incivility not only from their talking heads and > their opinion programs, but from their quote-unquote news programs also. > Rutgers faces an extremely uphill battle when even NPR is uncivil - > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120344047 I wish > them luck, but rather than focus on their student's behavior, they might > have a bigger impact by acting as a Civility Ombudsman, of sorts, to the > news media. > > Andy Wolodkin > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: David Epstein [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 11:02 AM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: RE: [tips] How To Watch Your F'n' Language > > On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Vincent Wolodkin went: > >> As I recently upbraided some friends about their persistent use of >> the term "teabagger" to describe those who associate with the Tea >> Parties, one might wonder where that term started? I think it was >> Chris Matthews and Rachel Maddow, those gleaming icons of objective >> journalism;-) > > That's not the way I remember it. I'm pretty sure it was like this: > > <http://theweek.com/article/index/202620/the-evolution-of-the-word-tea-b > agger> > > |The grassroots movement didn't always consider "tea bagger" a slur: > |Early Tea Partiers innocently embraced the term until they discovered > |its vulgar connotations.... > > --David Epstein > [email protected] > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13098.4de9b7822e0de81fc734bc5689ab6f03 > &n=T&l=tips&o=5026 > or send a blank email to > leave-5026-13098.4de9b7822e0de81fc734bc5689ab6...@fsulist.frostburg.edu > > --- > You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. > To unsubscribe click here: > http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263003&n=T&l=tips&o=5028 > or send a blank email to > leave-5028-13441.4e79e96ebb5671bdb50111f18f263...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=5029 or send a blank email to leave-5029-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
