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David Gergen Hears The McCain Campaign Dog Whistle Loud and Clear
Comments from Left Field —
Via TPM:
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Liss has more instructions for Jake Tapper on “how dog whistles work” (hope you’re taking notes, Taps).
Good For David Gergen
Newshoggers.com —
Via a TPM reader we have this:
George Will and Jake Trapper are claiming that St McSame is not using the race card and David Gergen of all people yells Bull Sh*t! It may be in code but it is racism in the finest Rovian tradition
David Gergen schools the panel on McCain's racist campaign
The Reaction —
By Creature (Via TPM/Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
Only Nixon could go to China
Brilliant at Breakfast —
And only Nixon's old speechwriter, David Gergen, could sit there and tell George Suckupagus that as a native Southerner, HE recognizes a racial dogwhistle when he sees one:
I hear their gentle voices calling Old Black Joe
SteveAudio —
It's been quite a week in John McMaverickypants' campaign, what with his latest insulting ads. Oh hell, here's the first: Celebrity? Young, vacuous, slutty white women? Of course, serious Villagers like Ross Douthat don't see it that way: That's the takeaway, so far as I can tell, from this Josh Marshall post, which starts with the dubious claim that this McCain ad - which Ramesh and John Weaver rightly call childish - is actually playing on white America's subliminal fears that ...
Gergen identifies code for ‘He’s uppity’
Political Animal —
When it comes to identifying loaded campaign rhetoric, David Gergen probably isn’t the first media figure that comes to mind. He’s a Republican, and has been a member in a good standing of the DC political establishment for quite a while.
And yet, when he sees Republican “code”-attacks, Gergen isn’t afraid to call them out, as he did yesterday on ABC.
As Sam Stein reported, Gergen told his roundtable colleagues, “There has been a very intentional effort to paint him as somebody outside the mainstream, other, ‘he’s not one of us.’ I ...
Gergen talks about code for ‘uppity’
Crooks and Liars —
David Gergen may be a Republican, and he may be a long-time member of the DC establishment, but he knows loaded language when he sees it.
Sam Stein has more.
Spot the Republican
Daily Kos —
John McCain's attack ads were a topic of the Sunday blab fests. They were a study in contrasts between McCain's surrogates and honest folk. Here are two such, first from Meet The Press: MR. BROKAW: Senator Lieberman, let me just share with you and with our audience as well what Senator McCain had to say earlier about the tone of the campaign. (Videotape, April 14, 2008): SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): This will be a respectful campaign. Americans want a respectful campaign. They're tired of the attacks. They're tired of the impugning people's character and integrity. They want a respectful campaign, and, and I, and I am ...
David Gergen's Code for 'Uppity' Bitches, Ballbreakers, & Bimbos (Video)
Tennessee Guerilla Women —
As a native of the south, I can tell you, when you see this Charlton Heston ad, 'The One,' that's code for, 'he's uppity, he ought to stay in his place.' Everybody gets that who is from a southern background. We all understand that. ...
David Gergen was Right
Six Meat Buffet —
Racism bubbles just below the radar screen and we have proof.
Exhibit A: The lastest McCain Ad:
Proof of McCain's Racist Ads
The Jawa Report —
August 16, 2008 Proof of McCain's Racist Ads Racism bubbles just below the radar screen and we have proof. Exhibit A: The latest McCain Ad: By Gordo at August 16, 2008 01:21 PM | | l digg this
St. John McSame
d r i f t g l a s s —
denounces bitter, partisan rancor. Vows to end it... ...once he figures out where oh where it is all coming from. ...
