Tea isn't their bag

One way to tell that the "tea parties" last week his some sort of a mark is the escalating nature of the frat-house style mockery, hateful backlash, baseless accusations, biased, hypocritical reporting and perverted terms for those who attended the protests.

You've no doubt heard the left describe, ad nauseam, a person who goes to "tea parties" as a "teabagger." For those of you who don't know, "teabagging" is a certain practice that you'll grasp if you use your imagination a little bit or have the sheer courage to Google it – but, of course, liberals are using it as a derogatory term for tea partiers because "stupid doodie-head" sounded a little too sophomoric.

CNN's Anderson Cooper even got in on the fun last week when he said on the air, "It's hard to talk when you're teabagging." No comment.

The tea parties are only part of the reason for the deviation from liberal core principles (moving targets to be sure). Everything is flipped on its ear these days: The Left has turned into military hawks ever since Gen. George S. Hussein Obama's pirate put-down, they used to love protesting the government, but now liberal Democrats are flinging around accusations of "treason" and calling protesters "un-American" and "un-patriotic" ("protest" ceased to be patriotic on Inauguration Day). The Left now defends massive corporate welfare, suddenly isn't disturbed by ever-increasing debt, and, in an issue maybe Sean Penn can tackle in "Milk II," they're taking a practice often enjoyed by the homosexual community and using it as a disparaging term for "right-wing extremist" protesters. Being referred to as a "teabagger" in a disparaging fashion by an open-minded inclusive, sexually liberated liberal is a little like Planned Parenthood calling you a "baby killer."

Then of course there are accusations of "racism" – the last line of defense for any liberal who's losing an argument – which is why we hear the word so much. B-list actress, C-list comedian and D-list activist (or is it the other way around?) Janeane Garofalo made news last week for referring to tea partiers as "racist rednecks."

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Garofalo has identified several hundred thousand "racists" based on nothing but the fact that they showed up to a gathering that nobody – regardless of race, creed, ethnicity or religious conviction – was denied access or discouraged from attending. The African-American pastor who delivered the invocation at the tea party I attended last Wednesday may have been surprised to discover that he was encouraging racism against himself. Naturally, Garofalo would dismiss him as "self-loathing," as she did to RNC Chair Michael Steele.

There's a very simple question that I wish someone in the media would be willing to ask Janeane Garofalo the next time she's a guest on any of their programs:

"Ms. Garofalo, if somebody on the political right disagrees with America's first black president and calls him a socialist, you claim that critic is a 'racist redneck.' If somebody is on the political Left and disagrees with the first African-American chairman of the RNC and calls him 'self-loathing,' you say that critic is a 'progressive.' Do you believe that a white person deciding which blacks deserve protection and which don't is not a form of racism?"

Sure, Garofalo would come up with a wacky response that would make sense to her Skittle-brained, Chomskybotomized target audience, but I'd at least like to see the question asked.

There are even those who even claim that the word "socialist" is a racist code word. People seem to forget that many of us referred to Hillary Clinton as a socialist – though I can see how condemning the political leanings of the common-law wife of the first black president could be construed as racist.

Last week's tea parties were almost universally reported as "anti-tax" rallies. This is false. As a matter of fact, the original Boston Tea Party wasn't an anti-tax protest – it was a protest of taxation without representation. You and I may have representation in Washington (very loosely defined), but our kids, grandkids and unborn future generations don't, and the government is spending their money right now and leaving them in a huge, perhaps insurmountable hole thanks to the insane notion that the government can spend its way out of debt via bills it doesn't have the time or inclination to read.

Here's just one example of the kind of government mindset that helps fuel consternation: Just last week, President Obama created even more government jobs. Why? To find ways to "streamline the government and cut costs." I kid you not.

Yeah, I know. See you at the next tea party.