tea nonparty - RE: radio

[Tom Zurinskas]

I have a problem with "tea party" as a political term.  It's not a political party at all as far as I know.  And if it is not a party then they are in reality nothing at all.  They're a tea nonparty.  If they're gonna call themselves a party, then they need to be one.  Right now they're party poopers.

Tom Zurinskas, from Conn 20 yrs, then Tenn 3, NJ 33, now FL 8.
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> Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2011 03:02:49 -0500
> From: aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM
> Subject: radio
> To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
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> Sender: American Dialect Society
> Poster: Victor Steinbok
> Subject: radio
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> Two pieces of conservative radio gems:
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> Earlier in the week, in a broadcast repeated today, Rush Limbaugh
> extended the term "democrat uprising" to the events in Egypt. Such a
> slip-up was inevitable, with the long-term concerted effort by some
> Republicans and conservative commentators to pretend that "Democratic
> Party" is an incorrect expression. Limbaugh did not hesitate or
> self-correct, although he did use "democratic uprising" in several
> subsequent sentences.
>
> Somewhat later--likely on a Hannity re-broadcast--two people were
> "debating" the relative merits of Islamic law. After one speaker
> suggested that his opponent was "angry", the other produced an angry
> tirade in response. "Don't you dare to diff... Don't you differentiate
> between anger and passion! I'm passionate about things that I am talking
> about!" Notwithstanding the tautology in the last sentence, the one
> before it contains an interesting use of "differentiate" that means
> exactly the opposite of what it normally means. [A considerable period
> of time passed since I heard the clip before
> I committed it to writing, so it may vary slightly in the false start
> and in the last bit, but the middle sentence is reported accurately.
> There was a false start and the last bit is substantially accurate, but
> I can't vouch for the exactness of those parts of the statement.]
>
> VS-)
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