The New York Daily News posted a collection of teabagging protesters’ grammar- and spelling-challenged signs (some of which I’ve already highlighted) and they’re calling the proliferation of sloppy English among these wingnuts “teabonics” — it’s perfect!
I can’t decide which is my favorite source of irony for the term teabonics:
- That a common theme among teabaggers is the anti-immigrant “learn English” sentiment while they’re repeatedly demonstrating their own poor grasp of their native tongue
- That much of the teabaggers’ rhetoric is subtly and overtly racially bigoted, making the play on words involving the term “ebonics” especially painful for any teabagger smart enough to pick up on it and especially full of sweet, sweet schadenfreude for the rest of us
I can’t play favorites, so I’ll just enjoy them both equally.
Meh. It’s amusing that the best Obama supporters can do these days is make fun of a few hastily-painted signs. (I take it as a positive; it means that even the spurious claims of racism are being seen as ineffective.)
By: dhydar on April 20, 2010
at 7:48 am
Did you not read the post? The signs underscore the hypocrisy of the tea baggers.
Have you not seen their explicitly racist signs? Have you not read their explicitly and subtly racist comments?
Take your head out of the sand.
And this is only one of MANY, MANY legitimate criticisms that not just the left but anyone with a brain can make of the tea baggers.
Read my blog, I’ve got lots of examples.
Listen to folks besides Fox News and Rush Limbaugh (once again, take your head out of the sand) and you’d know that.
By: Lisa Pampuch on April 23, 2010
at 5:59 am