Read my article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about the fault line in America today, a forerunner to a session I will be chairing at the Sydney Writer’s Festival at Sydney Town Hall on Saturday May 22 at 5.30 pm. For further information and bookings go to www.swf.org.au
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Dear Anne. Interesting article about the tea-party people. One thing though – I think you’ll find that they certainly don’t call themselves “tea-baggers” – that is a name used for them in a pejorative sense. To a young generation of Americans “Tea-bagging” is a particular types of sexual practice (google it) I’m sure there is no way that the spin-meisters of the tea-party – which folksy-rhetoric aside is entirely a manufactured phenomenon – would let them inadvertently make fools of themselves by calling themselves that. Cheers Keith
Keith
I am very aware of this – and laugh every time I see the phrase!
Anne