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PoliPundit - “Dog Whistle” Politics

The phrase means “putting out a message that, like a high-pitched dog-whistle, is only fully audible to those at whom it is directly aimed.”

This naturally prompted ultra-lefty kook Kos to say:

we saw the Republicans employ that in 2004 to some degree. For example, Bush’s puzzling debate diss of the Dred Scott decision left the vast majority of people scratching their heads, but the anti-abortion movement knew exactly what he was saying. It’s Religious Right code for attacking Roe v. Wade.

Wow, and here I thought that Bush got slaughtered in that debate because he’s such a bumbling moron. And all this time he was so good he was deliberately and carefully targeting small sections of the population with every word he uttered. How unbelievably and astoundingly suddenly intelligent of him, Kos.