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Rachel Maddow defends her use of the word “teabagger” which has hurt the witty-bitty feelings of the wingnuts. Maddow points out that the teabaggers themselves first used the word, and says that the expression first came into the pop culture via John Waters’ 1998 movie Pecker. I don’t know about that, I dimly recall first seeing the word in the …

And they’re serious. Dig the “in a world…” voice-over.

A teabagger rally on a Fort Lauderdale street corner turned violent when counter-protesters from the pro-immigrant ANSWER group showed up. From the below clip shot by a teabagger (hence the inflammatory title), it’s hard to tell who started what, but this is just the latest in a recent spate of tea party protests that have gotten physical.

They’re suing each other now! Loves it!

It was a cavalcade of crazy on the steps on the U.S. Capitol yesterday as Rep. Michelle Bachmann led her fellow mental patients through the usual storm of “patriotic” talking points, including a botched reciting of the Pledge of Allegiance and a reference to the Preamble to the Constitution – which does not contain the quoted words, “We hold these …

“People wanna go against the word of God and live alternative, the media wants to crucify conservatives, just cuz we live by a set of principles, to me liberals are sick individuals.” And more stuff about abortion, gay marriage, etc. I do like the bit about “patriotic people throw your hands in the air and wave ’em ’round like you …

We love in-fighting amongst the crazies.

Another round of tea parties is coming! Get ready for even more hilariously misspelled signs and quotable redneckisms.

GOP pollster Frank Luntz says that Americans are “mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.” How original. Personally, I’m mad as hell at Luntz’ terrible wig. And I’m not gonna take it anymore!

Embarrassed by a widely circulated video showing a Fox News segment producer exhorting a crowd of teabaggers to scream for the camera, Fox vice president Bill Sammon has issued a stern warning to all employees. We do not cheerlead for one cause or another. We do not rile up a crowd. If a crowd happens to be boisterous when we …

Edward Kimmel of Takoma Park, Maryland took his life in his hands by marching into the teabaggers in DC waving a “Public Option Now!” flag. Park Service police had to rescue Kimmel and escort him out.

“I want the government out of my Social Security.” And of course, the guy who supports English-only has a misspelled sign.

“Conservative activists, who organized a march on the U.S. Capitol today in protest of the Obama administration’s health care agenda and government spending, erroneously attributed reports on the size of the crowds to ABC News. Matt Kibbe, president of FreedomWorks, the group that organized the event, said on stage at the rally Saturday that ABC News was reporting that 1 …

The headline on Free Republic about today’s teabagger protest in DC gloats: “Turnout estimated (by ABC News) at 2 Million!!” Well, not exactly. Here’s what ABC really says: Carrying signs depicting President Obama as Adolf Hitler and the Joker, and chanting slogans such as “‘No big government” and “Obamacare makes me sick,” approximately 60,000 to 70,000 people flooded Pennsylvania Ave, …

Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) who famously texted throughout Obama’s health care speech, knowing the camera was on him, came to the defense of Rep. Joe Wilson as teabaggers screamed their new battle-cry, “Obama lies!” In this clip, “head of the teabaggers” Mark Wilson claims Obama “knows that any ban on federal health benefits for illegal immigrants would never stand up …

Last night Keith Olbermann pointed out that Schmidt has previously denounced the birther movement publicly. “So she was either lying then, or she’s lying now.”

Using a quote from the thrice-married serial adulterer Newt Gingrich as its title, the teabaggers are claiming this as their “battle cry.” Lyrics recap: God, judgment day, revolution, guns, abortion, taxes, uppity Negroes in the White House. (The last is only implied, of course.) Note to teabagging subtitlers: it’s Capitol Hill, not Capital.