Thread: NPR Shows Everyone How to Speak 'Tea Bag' with OUR Money

NPR Shows Everyone How to Speak 'Tea Bag'... with OUR Money
January 5, 2010 at 8:56 am

It is surely true that everyone should have a sense of humor, and, of course, what's funny to one person is not necessarily funny to someone else. Politicians are mocked, caricatured, and ridiculed all the time. It's part of America's history to make fun of our leaders and to bring them down to our level.

But what happens when the so-called "humor" crosses the line? It's one thing to make fun of someone, but trying to discredit an entire movement of frustrated Americans and doing it with taxpayer money is something entirely different. How much longer are we going to continue to fund left-wing propaganda with OUR money? Just look at the NPR web site for their latest "humor" directed at the hundreds of thousands of "Tea Party" activists across the country.

Prominently displayed on the National Public Radio (NPR) web site is a new cartoon titled, "Learn To Speak Tea Bag." Of course, Tea Party activists don't ever use the term "tea bag," a phrase that refers to a sexual act and which has been used by the media to demean the entire tea party movement.



Click on the link to play the animation.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =120344047

Painting the entire Tea Party movement as a bunch of paranoid, red-neck, Nazis may seem humorous to some, but is this really where you want your tax dollars spent? If a private organization wants to spend money to post this cartoon on its web site, they have every right to do so. However, I don't think we have a say in what goes on the NPR web site, and we are the ones paying the bill!

This type of slanted propaganda has no place on a publicly-funded web site. Serving the public does not mean trying to target, label, and ridicule people who do not agree with a big government, socialist agenda. If this is our tax dollars at work, then something is certainly wrong with the system.

http://www.gopusa.com/theloft/?p=181

OPINION: New Animation: 'Learn To Speak Tea Bag'

Independent Syndicated Columnist Mark Fiore

by Mark Fiore
November 12, 2009

Watch now! Learning a new language doesn't have to be hard, especially when "Tea Bag" is so minimalistic! Mark Fiore created this animation. The Wall Street Journal dubbed him "the undisputed guru of the form." He creates political animation from an undisclosed location somewhere in San Francisco.

Learn To Speak Tea Bag

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =120344047