LOLcats, fight for your right to NOM NOM NOM! Also, teabagging FAIL! @nomtweets can suck it #savenom
My mom-in-law and sister will be wondering what this is about if she happens to read this post. Where to start?
It’s just this Internets thing, you know?
Maybe I’d better put the rest of this behind a “MORE” link. See you after the jump, as the cool kids say…
Here’s a few links to some recent blog posts and news stories to explain things a little.
@nomtweets is the Internets Tweets persona of someone who is against gay marriage, who seems to speak for the National Organization for Marriage, based on older posts showing images of famous conservative assholes arriving to buttonhole people and tell them that gay marriage makes the baby Jebus cry. I won’t link to them, but I will link to the inevitable parody persona, @nomnomtweets, and the TOTALLY AWSUM @nomnomnomtweets! LOLcats go to war to SAVE NOMNOMNOM!
Pam’s House Blend:: Why the National Organization for Marriage ad failed
Rachel Maddow and Behind the Scenes of the NOM Video
Even better, this excellent mashup of the NOM Video with their audition tapes, and Keith Olbermann…
This is what got me started on the whole #savenom thing:
@dceiver OPERATION CUTE OVERLOAD. We shall raise a mighty LOLCat Army, of astounding NOMiness, to fight for gay marriage.
And then there’s the whole “teabagging” debacle, as gleefully reported by @maddow and @anamariecox
[kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/OLsKt4O4Yw8" width="425" height="344" wmode="transparent" /]Mixed in with the archly delivered phrases (“Who wouldn’t want to teabag John McCain?”) are some interesting questions – following the money would probably be interesting, as FOX News is heavily involved in promoting the “Tea Bag Party” phenomenomnomnom. They also speculate as to whether the conservative movement might be ready to split away from the Republican Party (ie, fiscal conservatives and moderates vs. social conservatives), although Rachel Maddow demurs, citing network standards before a discussion of “fiscal teabags” breaks out.
Wonkette ran with this amusing
image of potential teabaggers proudly stating their right to look like total douches on the Internets tubes:
But the really very hilarious problem is that “teabagging” does not mean what the fundits and the Glen Beck-crazed conservatwits think what they mean, and neither does their new “Two Million For Marriage” (2M4M) acronym, either.
Bob Cesca’s Goddamn Awesome Blog! Go! helpfully posted a screencap of joyful, uplifting FAIL on the part of one hapless teablogger’s post: it urges patriots to mail or fax IMAGES of teabags to their Congressional representatives, since actually mailing real teabags meant big delays as the sachets of herbs had to be checked for anthrax… and linked to a Google image search on “tea bag,” which yielded on the first page this fabulous, yet family-friendly image of what “teabagging” really means.
The very next image on the search page shows somebody being teabagged, although there is no nudity. An actual “send your teabags to Washington” picture is several images farther down on that page, although I expect that the weeping Beckys and puling Paultards will try to move it farther up with a lame attempt at Googlejuicing.
Attention, Christianist conservatives!! You have once again made complete fools of yourselves by co-opting precisely the wrong catchphrase. It is only a matter of time before you are forced to change your silly National Organization for Marriage’s abbreviation (NOM) to something else, it is only a matter of time before you finally realize that your 2M4M acronym is similar to a well-known abbreviation for male-on-male anonymous sex in chat rooms and personal ads, and no matter how FOX News promotes your National Teabag Party events, you will be mercilessly mocked.
