Tea-Baggers getting lazy

I don't know or care where you get your information from but "they" didn't choose that name.

Well you should if you want to contest it.

It originated on CNN during an on the air conversation between Anderson Cooper and David Gergen. Then it was continued on MSNBC by Rachel Maddow and Ana Marie Cox.

Oh dear, you are out on that vein by almost exactly a month.
So take the date of the Cooper piece take away a calender month and looky at what Fox was broadcasting and looky at Chad Peace of Teaparty.com.
Though you could go back a month before that too to get some even earlier coverage which puts your "origins on CNN" even further into the realms of fantasy.

In any case I'm sure you'll agree it is rude and uncalled for.

No I don't agree, like I said if they were worried about being ridiculed then they should have chosen better words.
If someone wanted a group pushing global warming called the Climate Research Associated Publishers then they shouldn't be surprisred when someone says they write crap.

BTW August if you do find the references from two months before you said they originated you will notice the teabagging posters were printed from the FreeRepublic.com website