Let’s watch Judge Andrew Napolitano talk to Daniel Hannan, MEP:

*NOTE* This post describes the lewd act of ‘teabagging’ in an effort to illustrate the gravity of the comments by Anderson Cooper and others. Reader discretion is advised.

CNN golden child Anderson Cooper apologized to a group assembled at the Univervisty of California at Los Angeles for calling participants in the Tax Day Tea Party protests ‘teabaggers’ who engaged in ‘teabagging’, a suggestive term which describes a lewd sexual act whereby the testicles of one individual are placed into the mouth of another.

Cooper, who followed lock-step with the likes of MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow and countless anonymous liberal commentors on blogs, became the first to apologize for his immature and suggestive comments.

From the article:

Calling it a “stupid, silly, one-line aside,” he touched on the attention it received. “I think it’s an incorrect statement to say I was, in any way, trying to disparage legitimate protests,” said Cooper. “I don’t think it’s my job to disparage, or encourage, which oddly other networks seemed to be doing. Protest is the great right of all Americans, and it’s not my job in any way to make fun of people or disparage what they’re doing.”

Cooper said he regretted making the comment. “If people took offense to that and felt that I was disparaging their legitimate right to protest, and what they were doing, then that is something I truly regret, because I don’t believe in doing that,” he said. “Having this discussion just takes away from the real story.”

According to a Rasmussen survey, 51% of Americans polled hold a favorable view of the Tea Parties, which were held in over 500 cities in all 50 states last Wednesday. 32% of Americans hold a “very favorable” opinion of last week’s events.

The political elite, on the other hand, still don’t seem to get it:

While half the nation has a favorable opinion of last Wednesday’s events, the nation’s Political Class has a much dimmer view—just 13% of the political elite offered even a somewhat favorable assessment while 81% said the opposite. Among the Political Class, not a single survey respondent said they had a Very Favorable opinion of the events while 60% shared a Very Unfavorable assessment.

Check out the story above to see how the rest of the numbers break down. It’s pretty interesting.

Congressman Gresham Barrett (R – SC) gets boo’ed for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES at the Greenville, South Carolina Tea Party this weekend. Proof that Tea Partiers are angry at both Democrats and Republicans.

RT: Kleinheider