Teabagging

Only a lobbyist-inspired and Fox-promoted event like yesterday's anti-taxation demonstrations would take on the rather ambiguous and sexually charged name of "teabagging" without any understanding whatsoever of the innuendo attached to the word. As Rachel Maddow took viewers last night from one demonstration to the next was the entire audience chuckling?

The signs displayed at these rallies made me realize that indeed there is more than just one reality. TARP was from the Bush administration, remember, and I don't recall much fuss from the "grassroots" Republicans then, although the tone of the McCain rallies was getting raucous and desperate, and the folks showing up appeared more from the fringe. Everything appeared in code yesterday, like Bush's use of biblical terminology, letting people see and hear that they aren't alone. I don't know if I should be afraid, but Fox seems to be doing what the "yellow journalists" of the by-gone era did: making news instead of just reporting it.

Historically, America has always been divided, between North and South, between urban and rural, and then between urban, rural, and suburban, between races, between classes, although for some reason Fox refuses to admit the class aspect, as if class warfare is somehow worse than anything else.

Why? Because they promote it.