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iceweasel7/14/2009 4:00:00 am PDT

re: #215 BatGuano

Not necessary to dig up video: I’ll take your word for it. I hope those people didn’t know they were using word used by Maddow to disparage honest citizens who wanted this socialist madness to stop.

No, I’m sure they didn’t intend that. They were using the word before Maddow did that piece. They should have run the word through google or urban dictionary.com.

(TeabagObama was a tag some were using on Twitter to organise, apparently. There were signs saying “tea bag the liberal dems before they teabag you.” Just embarrassing.)

This was just a bad, bad misstep by some of the people involved in organising the idea. The liberal blogs picked it up first and mocked it ferociously, and then Maddow did that piece. i didn’t expect anyone in the MSM to mention it, frankly.

As I said above, anyone who wants to invent a neologism (or an acronym) now has to run it through urbandictionary or google. As far as I’m concerned this choice of words just shows bad planning.