Matthews: "Is there a dog whistle sounding out there on radio?"

Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All

- by Conchobhar (June 12, 2009 6:38 pm ET)
  3
  
  If you have to ask, Tweety, you're a sl-o-o-ow learner.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
- by juliajayne (June 12, 2009 6:46 pm ET)
  3
  
  Use of dog whistle politics gives the speaker plausible deniability. See how well it's employed by a multitude of righty talkers/pundits and even "bow legged" presidents.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
- by TheThief672 (June 12, 2009 7:16 pm ET)
  3
  
  And they wonder why people are going to alternative news sources.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
- by pete592 (June 12, 2009 7:22 pm ET)
  3
  
  Gun owners who hate everyone and everything are not suffering from a shortage of infotainment right now.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
- by congero6189599 (June 12, 2009 7:22 pm ET)
  2
  
  It is truly amazing that Chris Matthews can sit their and act like this is some new phenomenon and one that he is not a part of. How many times has he had on Pat Buchanan presenting him as if he's some legitimate voice and not the white supremacist msogynistic mental pygmy(sp)he is. Allowing him to blow his whistle with little if any refutation and sometimes agreeing with him, now he wants to pretend he didn't know what he was allowing? I ain't buying. But then another part of me says hummm...suppose he thinks those views PAt B. exspouses are legitimate,that his "real" people slip gave us a deeper look inside Matthews then we knew at the time.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
- by canaanxing9025 (June 12, 2009 9:21 pm ET)
  2 2
  
  The dog whistle analogy was a good one. Although, most people feel passion for one issue or another, most people don't hear, or react to a call to violence. Sadly, some do.
  
  Is the right wing media, or the left wing media, accountable: to some degree, yes. If I live in an environment (a loner) where everything I think is affirmed by who ever it is I feel comfortable listening too, and the rhetoric is appealing to my most base emotions, they will be prone to do things that most wouldn't.
  
  Reply Report Abuse
  - by juliajayne (June 12, 2009 10:52 pm ET)
    4
    
    Sorry for being a bit nitpicky here. But the term "loner" is always misapplied by the media and people in general. Loners like being alone. I know this subject very well as I am such a lone wolfe. I keep my own counsel and I like my own company and am at my best creatively when alone.
    
    I am a married person. Most loners are in fact married. But we are very, very choosy who we let into our exclusive world, as people drain our energy. And loners are usually very well balanced, creative individuals. So don't go lumping us in with evil doers that feel misunderstood or whatever the going hypothesis is.
    
    Please note loners will never have a loner's convention. We don't want to meet other people in groups of any kind, usually, unless they're large impersonal groups. And we are rarely lonely. So please save the label for us happy and well adjusted loner individuals, and not unbalanced individuals who seek to do others harm.
    
    Signed cordially,
    JJ, the very friendly for a loner loner
    
    Reply Report Abuse
    - by robyn20094113 (June 13, 2009 5:48 am ET)
      1
      
      JJ, when people ask me how I can stand to be alone so much, I reply "I must be good company" I know many people who will hang out with people they hate before they will spend time alone. I find that very sad.
      
      Reply Report Abuse

Matthews: "Is there a dog whistle sounding out there on radio?"

Most Popular Tags

RSS Feeds


	Username or Email Password Forgot your password? or Create An Account Email Username (required, for posting on forums) Zip Code Click here to subscribe to Media Matters action alerts and newsletters. or Log in to an existing account

Matthews: "Is there a dog whistle sounding out there on radio?"

Most Popular Tags

RSS Feeds

Connect & Share