Yes, exactly. And I'm pretty sure you aren't HitlerJ
Andy Wolodkin From: Paul C Bernhardt [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 12:34 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] How To Watch Your F'n' Language 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=13098.4de9b7822e0de81fc734bc5689ab6f03 &n=T&l=tips&o=5029 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-5029-13098.4de9b7822e0de81fc734bc5689ab6...@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=5033 or send a blank email to leave-5033-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
