Lefty movie reviewer Roger Ebert has used the term tea-baggers to refer to the Tea Party protesters in several tweets on his Twitter account recently. Having caught flak about that, he recently tweeted:
I’m reminded the term Teabaggers is pornographic. Didn’t know that until the MSM told me.
But Retracto the Correction Alpaca over at BigHollywood.com has caught the porcine reviewer in a lie. Retracto links to a review of John Waters’ “Pecker” that Ebert wrote in 1998:
His sister Tina (Martha Plimpton) is the emcee in a male go-go bar, issuing dire warnings against such misbehavior as “tea-bagging.”
Big Hollywood also notes that Ebert reviewed, and presumably watched, the 2008 movie “Step Brothers,” which has a refernce to tea-bagging, so the phrase and the concept could not have been unknown to Ebert.
