Boortz stays classy: "Never known anyone named 'Blanche' who had any balls at all"
November 23, 2009 5:53 am ET by Media Matters staff
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Kinda makes Boortz' reference to balls seem mild in comparison.
At the very least, it shows liberals are only concerned about crude language when conservatives use it against Democrats.
Liberals tell other liberals to grow some balls, too. By your logic then, Neil Boortz was perfectly ok to say that about Blanche Lincoln.
Shoot, even liberal women have told liberal women to grow a pair.
Can you explain why it' ok for liberals-even Democratic presidents- to call Americans "teabaggers", but it's not ok for a talk-radio personality to chide a Democratic Senator's bravery using a common slang term that's far less offensive than what the act of "teabagging" is?
This thread isn't about what certain American's once called themselves. It's about a coward accusing someone else of cowardice.
It's quite likely because the tea party people are actually buying truckloads of tea bags and wearing tea bags on their tea-partying persons. Wear your tea bag proudly and unashamedly, as difficult as that must be.
By all means, please keep it up. Even encourage your president and ex-presidents to do it. Two down and one to go- have to keep working on Jimmy Carter. It reflects on liberals more poorly than it does the tea -partiers at this point. And it just makes it more of a joke when libs try to act like conservatives are the nasty ones when they complain about things like this comment by Boortz.
Why should everyone ignore the double entendre when the tea partiers themselves are applying it!?
They aren't conservatives, they are just loud-mouthed ignoramuses.
You can't unless you're just another blatantly hypocritical liberal.
True enough, but when taking delight in using the term 'teabaggers' I also have no reference to the sex act (wich You seem to be obsessed with), but only the stupidity of people who would give themselves a name and be so completely cluless about how to make sure they diddn't use a term any teenager would snicker at. Really proves the isolation and minority status of a group that claims to be so mainstream.
And you are referencing the sex act. You most definitely are.
No, you use it as a slur when the original tea partiers never did, and now you relish in saying it. It says more about you than it does anybody else. If you take pride in saying that people who used that term didn't realize the left would snicker about the sexual meaning, then so be it' it still doesn't absolve you of your perversity and vulgarity when you use it that way.
That was a poster that a barely 12 year old boy was holding up that Dave Weigel used to somehow give the ok to liberals to use it against Tea Party protesters.
You really want to use a 12 year old buy to justify being crass and vulgar? That's who you want to get down in the mud with, grade school boys and their humor?
Good grief. And then act shocked that Neal Boortz says a woman named Blanche doesn't have any balls. Yoi and double Yoi.
For all you know that young man as 17 or 18. Deciding that you think he looks 12 does not mean he's 12.
And you're missing the point here. The protesters were the first ones to utilize the double entendre of the phrase. THEY made signs that said "teabag the dems" or said "teabag the white house" (and Griff Jenkins isn't 12). You can't trash "liberals" for acknowledging the sexual connotation when the tea partiers did it first.
Furthermore, the photograph that is credited with being the origina of the label "teabagger" for the protesters was posted by David Weigel, a conservative/libertarian columnist. The photo is of a young man holding a sign that says, "teabag the dems before they teabag you" (or something like that).
That photograph, as I said, is the origin of the "teabag" label for protesters. You can't possibly tell me that whoever made that sign was unaware of the connotation.
If the protesters willingly applied that label to themselves, then why should anyone ignore it?
Or are you referring to income taxes? How do you know the teabaggers pay income taxes? Were they carrying around their cancelled checks, like that crazy town hall lady with her birth certificate in a ZipLoc bag?
How do you know that? Did ClusterFox say it so it must be true?
If these protesters are too stupid to research a name before they use it - well, now they know, don't they?
Hoosier: You're still a liar and a moran.
Because they don't understand history.
Neal, if you don't know a Blanche with balls, then clearly you're not aware of US history:
Blanche Kelso Bruce:
A Senator from Mississippi; born in slavery near Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., March 1, 1841; was tutored by his master’s son; left his master at the beginning of the Civil War; taught school in Hannibal, Mo.; after the war became a planter in Mississippi; member of the Mississippi Levee Board; sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar County 1872-1875; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881; was the first African American to serve a full term in the United States Senate; appointed Register of the Treasury by President James Garfield 1881; recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia 1891-1893; again Register of the Treasury from 1897 until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 17, 1898; interment in Woodlawn Cemetery.
Hmmm -- a former slave involved in politics in Reconstruction-era Mississippi. Trust me, Boortz -- this Blanche's balls were WAY bigger than yours.