"It's Hard to Talk When You're Teabagging"

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"It's Hard to Talk When You're Teabagging"

By SteveK on Apr 15, 2009 12:45 PM

Teabagging jokes — they're all the rage.

The double entendres seem to have started with MSNBC's Rachel Maddow and continued with her colleague David Shuster.

Last night, Anderson Cooper got in on the act, with a set up from David Gergen:

Gergen: "They still haven't found their voice, Anderson. This happens to a minority party after it's lost a couple of bad elections, but they're searching for their voice."
Cooper: "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging."

> Update: Click continued to see the clip (via Newsbusters)...

> Update, update: Red Eye's Greg Gutfeld weighs in on teabagging jokes by anchors: "Why is it the MSM finds it so easy to sneer at a group of protestors?"

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