Politicked Off: Tea Bagging
When I was in high school, I was the sports editor for the school paper and I got in trouble for not preventing the publication of a report that was laden with double entendres. The writers focused on one girl on the JV lacrosse team and wrote about her stick handling and how she liked to let everyone score. Admittedly it was a stupid moment of juvenile behavior and I learned my lesson.
Apparently, that's not a lesson that MSNBC has learned. A couple of days ago, I watched as Rachel Maddow giggled through a report on the Republican Tea Parties. It seems some of the protesters referred to their protests as "tea bagging" and, needless to say, they were completely oblivious to the alternate meaning of the term.
While Maddow was kind of silly, Countdown took it to a whole 'nother level. I'm honestly stunned that MSNBC let this go. Just watch the first two minutes and forty-five seconds of this clip.
Honestly, I might have learned my lesson in high school but that doesn't mean I don't think that's funny. On the other hand, I kind of think that it hurts some of MSNBC's credibility. Can you really mock Fox News' coverage in the middle of a three minutes dick joke? (Although the Million Man March thing is one of the cases in which Fox just makes stuff up. Also, if you've seen the clips of Cavuto, he simply can't bring himself to mention the Million Man March without also stating that it wasn't actually a million men. It's kind of sad. Then again, I'm blogging on a site called SoulHonky.com so I can't really act too holier than thou either.)