Emma Berry

“Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a type of political campaigning or speech making employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general population but has a different or more specific meaning for a targeted subgroup of the audience. The term is an analogy to dog whistles built in such a way that humans cannot hear them due to their high frequency, but dogs can. “  Source:  Wikipedia

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Dog Whistle politics were instrumental in the murder of Dr. Tiller last May .  I think that anti-abortionists use this technique a lot and most  of them know exactly what they are doing—inciting murder, but like the Jihadists, these people believe that God is on their side.  Ironic isn’t it, how much they have in common with each other. But the truth is that they are all murdering cowards, regardless their political or religious ideology.

EXAMPLE OF DOG WHISTLE POLITICS IN ACTION

A recent broadcast of Pat Robertson’s “700 Club” was used as an example by the Democratic Underground.  Author Eric Metaxas was being interviewed about his new biography of attempted Adolf Hitler assassin Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Metaxas’ book paints Bonhoeffer as a prophet of God who was doing holy work through his plot to kill Hitler.

The interview made it clear that the holy work of any good Christian to assassinate a fascist tyrant. Given that these right-wing media people have used those exact terms again and again and again to describe the president, it is a pretty short leap to realize the “700 Club”  message was that whoever puts a bullet in Obama will be considered a saint on the level of Bonhoeffer.

Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann and Glenn Beck employ Dog Whistle Politics daily.

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