Do the Tea Parties “hate” Occupy Wall Street?

I only ask the question because The Awl’s Abe Sauer has written a long piece…

…did I say “long?” I meant looo-ooo-ooo-ong piece…

…under that title, purporting to show just how unhinged Tea Partiers are about the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

We hate ‘em! Just hate ‘em!

Now: Abe links me, therefore he’s golden. Treat him with respect, you bunch of [censored]!

He also calls the infamous pink slip, expounded upon at length in these very electrons, a “pink dress.”

Dress? Dude. Was that just a misstatement, or have you honestly never seen a woman’s underclothes? And if so, couldn’t you just fake it? Just a little? Seriously, man, the rest of us bloggers have a hard enough time shaking the nerd-who-lives-in-Mom’s-basement image.

And, plus, if that’s a dress, then what’s a swimsuit, and could someone please get one for Gail to model?

While Abe ponders all that, let me ask the rest of you something: do I hate Abe Sauer? Absolutely not. I was amused by something Abe wrote that came to my attention, and I therefore made fun of it.

I do that sometimes.

So too with the Tea Parties and Occupy Wall Street. Hate them? What for? For making us look like the grown-ups in the room, despite the media’s attempts to depict otherwise? For providing us with hours of amusement? For congregating the Great Liberal Masses in geographically condensed areas, thus making the coffee shop lines that much shorter for the rest of us?

Why would we?

Hell, I’m all for the Occupy protests. I’ve always wanted to see what a real live dysentery outbreak looks like.

From a distance, of course.

Thanks for the link, Abe! This was fun!