After being mocked by left wing critics as “teabaggers” (the act of putting ones testicles on the face of another) for months, one filmmaker within the Tea Party protesters who are for reducing the size of government control and cutting taxes, is accepting and owning the term.

Michael Rostor reacts Yeah, OK, it’s a little rude to throw a bunch of wet tea bags (i.e. testicles) on a photo of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. But I think it’s fair of Tea Party members, a semi-organized political force in this country, to object to the dismissal of their political advocacy as ‘teabagging.’ At CPAC this year, Ann Coulter dealt with Anderson Cooper using the teabag slur (comment comes towards the end):