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Costello: A Whistle Only MSNBC Hears

When I was young, people who heard voices in their heads were confined to psychiatric hospitals. Today they're employed at MSNBC as primetime hosts. And what those voices in their heads are telling them is that Republicans are sending subliminal appeals to racists, using what liberals call "racial dog whistles." Distracting voters from the abysmal state of the U.S. economy remains the Democrats sole hope for survival this November. And for liberals, racism is like ketchup. It goes on everything.Of late, MSNBC's commentary has been dedicated to exposing the subliminal racist messages that only they heard during the Republican National Convention. The idea of the racist dog whistle (their term, not mine) implies that certain secret code words are inserted into seemingly benign messages that trigger visceral subconscious racism in the vulnerable listener. And as Democrats are happy to tell you, we are a predominantly racist nation. The odd thing about these racist dog whistles is that only liberal Democrats seem able to hear them/Michael Costello, Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Did you see a media bias toward Democrats during the recent national conventions?



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D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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