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David Neiwert adds David Freddoso and James Taranto to the list of cryptoracist code-talkers, for calling Obama “audacious”:
It’s kind of clever, really — take a keyword from the title of one of his books and use it to call him “uppity” without actually saying it. But then, the dog-whistle components of this campaign, as we’ve seen, are becoming increasingly sophisticated.And the Rorschach inkblot reactions from the Left are becoming increasingly bizarre.
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