Vitriol Espresso "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all." General James Mattis

It honestly boggles my mind the way people have been so incredibly insulted by being referred to as a 'Teabagger' instead of a 'Tea Bagger.' There is a huge difference, of course, but it's not the difference that the news media are hawking. The left uses it as a deroggatory insult. The right gets all puffed up at the affrontery at being called a deroggatory insult. When both sides couldn't be more wrong.

It is the world of FPS (First Person Shooter) games that coined the term 'Teabagger' in the first place. Sure, it was known as a sexual perversion beforehand, but was largely unknown. The ladies and gentlemen of the gaming sphere are the ones who took it to it's natural progression. You see, regardless of the gender of the small pixellated people on the screen they all have testicles. In uniforms such as those in Call of Duty or Halo or any number of other FPS games there are no females. They are all anatomically male. This isn't sexist. It's simply easier to make the game you want to make if you aren't worried about such things as gender and breast placement. Besides, it'd take away from the grandeur of battle as men and boys everywhere do nothing but turn on the game to look at female endowments. No, the developers want them to play the game.

Thus, in this genre of FPS gaming, the Teabag Maneuver was born. When a player has won in a fight against a weaker foe the common celebration is to stop and dip your avatar down onto the head of your fallen enemy. Teabagging the dead is a way to show superiority in the FPS sphere of gaming. A coup de grace. A denouement. The icing on the cake. You KNOW you lost the game when someone is doing the complicated finger moves to dip his character's buttocks down at your head several times in celebration.

Keeping this in mind while you watch Keith Olbermann and Tingles Matthews you might get a chuckle at them when they use the term 'Teabagger' in reference to the Tea Bag Movement. Because every time they say it, they mean that the Tea Bag Movement is aimed at their heads.

Every gamer knows this. And we're all laughing. HARD.