Gotta love Ann

I wrote about this in my recap of the OKC Tea Party, and Ann Coulter picks up on it in her weekly column today.

Coulter zeroes in on the "tea bagging" humor that has wafted dandelion spores from MSNBC to pretty much everyone who watches MSNBC, including too many people on my Facebook feed. What is so funny about the stupidity of the terms "teabag, tea-baggers and tea-bagging" is that it is is the perfect watermark to indicate, in person or online, you are hearing commentary from the hosts at MSNBC (and that includes you, Mr. A Cooper), only retold without credit by a person far less clever, which isn't saying much. Read it here. 

On MSNBC, hosts Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow have been tittering over the similarity of the name "tea parties" to an obscure homosexual sexual practice known as "tea bagging." Night after night, they sneer at Republicans for being so stupid as to call their rallies "tea bagging." 

Every host on Air America and every unbathed, basement-dwelling loser on the left wing blogosphere has spent the last week making jokes about tea bagging, a practice they show a surprising degree of familiarity with. 

Except no one is calling the tea parties "tea bagging" -- except Olbermann and Maddow. Republicans call them "tea parties." 

But if the Republicans were calling them "tea-bagging parties," the MSNBC hosts would have a fantastically hilarious segment for viewers in San Francisco and the West Village and not anyplace else in the rest of the country. On the other hand, they're not called "tea-bagging parties." (That, of course refers to the cocktail hour at Barney Frank's condo in Georgetown.)