In early 2009, angered at the rapid growth of governmental interference through its “housing bailout” plan, CNBC commentator Rick Santelli stated on the air that it was time for a “Chicago Tea Party” to voice outrage against the socialization of the American capitalist system.  The subsequent nation-wide, grass-roots movement of protests has been dubbed the “Tea Party” movement, and its participants as “tea partiers”.

The Left, unable to summon an intelligent response to the tea party movement, and caught off guard by the ferocity of the reaction of conservatives to the creeping socialism of the Obama administration, followed their typical strategy - childish crudeness.  In reaction to the movement, Leftist “personalities” introduced the use of a borderline pornographic phrase to describe the participants in the movement as “teabaggers”.  So why is this a problem?  I’ll leave the details for below the fold…

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In Pennsylvania, the unions are rallying to support card check, or what they like to refer to as the “Employee Free Choice Act.”

Some local business leaders are going to be rallying with them. The news media there notes

Business leaders will gather in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, this afternoon in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.

The roundtable will be held at 5 o’clock this afternoon at Airport Pizza, 3360 Airport Road, and attendees will express support for federal legislation pending before Congress that will give workers the freedom to form unions and hold corporations accountable. U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, D-Pa., has indicated he wants to hear feedback on the act, and the business owners intend to let him know they support it and he should too, according to a news release.

One of the most vocal local business leaders is a guy with the delightfully adult film-ish name of Erv Fetherman. Mr. Fetherman is cited in the Express-Times as the owner of some business called the “Mail Room,” which is a unionized company already.

They probably could not, in a mainstream news outlet, write about Mr. Fetherman’s other business.

Well, at least I assume Erv Fetherman who owns the Mail Room is the same Erv Fetherman that owns “Erv’s Girls” some 39 feet away from the Mail Room (and yes, it is the Mail Room, not the Male Room).

Erv’s Girls — no word on if it is unionized — claims to be a BYOB strip club where you can’t touch the ladies, but couples are always welcome. If it is the same Erv Fetherman, he’s also been arrested for selling drugs to his strippers.

Perhaps the union representatives should find more upstanding businessmen to support their efforts to destroy private enterprise.

ABC News is excited about porn. At least excited by the “fact” that conservative and religious states have the highest levels of porn usage in the country. This, ABC says, is according to a study by Benjamin Edelman at Harvard Business School. Yes, it’s another one of those dime-a-dozen studies.

ABC trumpets the bare “facts” in its February 28 piece titled, “Porn in the USA: Conservatives Are Biggest Consumers.” In its first few paragraphs the report claims that, “Those states that do consume the most porn tend to be more conservative and religious” than states in the more liberal areas of the country. But there is a problem with ABC’s heavy-handed claim. Even the Harvard researcher doesn’t put too much emphasis on the “conservative states” aspect because his data doesn’t show a very wide gulf between states, conservative or not.

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