And nwahs comes to Colmes's defense in three... two ... one ...

So, according to Colmes it's the conservatives' fault that they're being called "teabaggers" because they picked a name that could be "conflated with a distasteful sexual term". 

Never mind the historical significance of the name; it's all our fault.  It's not a problem that liberals have no respect for history, or that liberals have a pre-occupation with sexual phrases: it's the conservatives fault for picking a word that might be twisted to mean something else.

Typical liberal "it's not our fault" logic.  You have no integrity, Colmes.

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

Does he read what he writes?  Doesn't he realize how unconvincing he sounds?  A synonym????  Hey, Alan, guess what... the word "teabagger" doesn't appear in my dictionary, and none of the definitions on urbandictionary.com are very complimentary.  So, not sure what else you could've meant?

BTW... you were always pond scum - but at least you were tolerable. 

After watching Alan as part of the duo for a number of years, it is so sad to see him become one of the blind liberal mounthpieces he acknowledged were not a productive part of our national discussion.  I guess he needed Sean to keep him centered and reasonable.

Welcome to the lunatic left!  Sooner or later it seems that even the reasonable ones fall prey to the hate.

Let's be honest.  He did this so someone would read his rediculous blog.  If he were not distasteful then no one would take the time to go over there.  What an idiot.

Alan Colmes response to criticism was a self congratulatory package wrapped in smugness and tied with bow of pretentiousness.

Colmes - "....they may have brought this upon themselves, choosing a symbol that could easily be conflated with a distasteful sexual term."

C'mon Alan, get your mind out of the gutter, man-up and stop blaming others for your perverse mindset or Madam Bugeyes might just ship you off to rehab - "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility."  Nancy Pelosi

Here's a question: So any time someone refers to a tea party participant as a "teabagger," it's with sexual overtones?

Anyone who watched Hannity & Colmes saw this behavior from him on a regular basis. Colmes would say some wildly absurd thing that had no basis in fact.  A conservative guest (often Ann Coulter) would come on with well prepared facts and nail his skinny butt to the wall.  He would curl up in a fetal position and whine "Why are you so mean to me."

One of my favorite Colmes moments was when a poll came out on some issue.  The same day an intelligent blogger proved that the poll had wildly oversampled Democrats by something like 80% and that fact had been the headline on Drudge.  Colmes goes on the show that night claiming the poll numbers were the will of the American people.  One of his guests mentioned how ineffective the poll was due to the oversampling and Alan became argumentative saying that the guest just wanted his own opinion.  What a maroon!

I wonder what the reaction of these so-called adults would be should their children, or any child, ask why it's so funny to call people by this name?

I consider the depths to which so many people in society have sunk, as evidenced by their mental processes and language, profoundly disturbing. Calling them "infantile" is an insult to infants.

These people are unequivocally disgusting in my book. Period.  

 metaphorsbwithu

    Concentrate on the inane. Is this the new libtroll game of misdirection? 

"There is no awareness, it seems, of how they may have brought this upon
themselves, choosing a symbol that could easily be conflated with a
distasteful sexual term."

He should tell that to the original patriots.  Or, I suppose, we could just go back and rewrite all the history books, showing proper sensitivity toward a sexual practice by removing any reference to "tea bags" and "the Boston Tea Party" from history.

After all the original patriots just brought it on themselves, didn't they?

Now that's taking personal responsibility for your own actions!

Those Teabaggers bought it on themselves by emulating the Boston Tea Party at a time when disgusting homosexual acts of perversion have been made mainstream! /snark

It's obvious that Liberals really don't care about their own behavior.  They only care about their own feelings.  They also LIE about their intentions. This "tea bagger" insult highlights this perfectly.  

Here' we have Liberals deliberately insulting people by using a term theyKNOW is sexual in nature, resorting to vulgarity in order to demean those who don't share their ideals, yet they try to HIDE this vulgarity and their vulgar intentions by trying to raise questions as to the "true meaning" of the term.  Here's the thing:  the Liberals KNOW what they're saying.  They use the term to INSULT people, so what other meaning can there be for the term?

So, liberals, stop resorting to vulgarity, or atleast admit that you ARE vulgar.  Anything less is undignified. 

The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States.
The US Constitution

Unless you're a fetus.
The US Supreme Court

Thought Colmes had more class than that.  Guess all these Libtards are about the same.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

So it's ok for Alan to be coarse but people are hateful when they call him on his lack of class?

If anyone would know about being "teabagged" it would be Colmes! Know what I mean? <wink,wink>

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

Never had an original thought in his life.  His arguments with Hannity when they had their show together all came directly off the Democrat's Talking Points.

As far as the Tea Party Patriots "choosing the symbol" of "teabaggers", that term was supplied by the left-wingers, primarily Anderson Cooper on CNN, and Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow on MSNBC (I can understand Cooper being "intimately" familiar with that term, but I have no idea how Maddow would even know it's a possibility).

Maybe Colmes and Cooper can hook up (I mean, team up) and do their own show.  Instead of "Anderson Cooper 360" it can be "Anderson and Alan 69".