CNN: Cafferty spanking Dumbya

[kerry-is-my-prez]

He's outraged that Bush said "The Iraq War will just be a comma in the history books."

He brought up the soldiers who had been killed, etc.

[Catherine Vincent]

1. I heard that!

He said Bush said something very stupid. The comma comment.

[kenny blankenship]

7. A stupid remark, but an utterly revealing one

demonstrating not stupidity but total contempt for the suffering of those forced to carry out and prop up his insane, failed scheme for M.E. dominance.

[indepat]

16. And maybe indicating he has even more grandiose plans

[teryang]

2. Iraq war a "comma in the history books," Dumbya

Wow, Cafferty really unloaded on this stupid callous piece of shit frat boy.

[davidwparker]

3. That's what I like. Let * be *. Just give him a microphone and let him go.

*, you don't need any advisors, they're holding you back. Be free. Be you.

Your peeps want to hear what's on your mind.

[Ezlivin]

4. I'd like to see Bush diagram one English sentence

But I'd also like to see him frog-marched to prison in an orange jumpsuit.

I'm grateful that he knows what a comma is.

Now if he could learn the rest of his grammar....

[kerry-is-my-prez]

5. Now Ben Veniste!

asked Bush why he didn't go after Bin Laden.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

6. Bush interview was missing from the 9/11 commission report.

Veniste was outvoted by the other Commissioners.

[ProgressiveEconomist]

10. That important detail slipped by me. Do you have a link?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

14. It was on CNN - no link that I know of....

n/t

[POAS]

8. If it's going to be a comma why

does he proclaim it to be central to the war on terra today?

Edited to add, howmany people need to die for a comma?

[featherman]

9. Maybe he meant something else and misspoke.

What does a "comma in the history books" mean anyway? Kinda of a bizarre phrase.
Alternately:
"comment"
"coma"
"comet"
"commission"
"camel"
"caramel"
etc.
Who knows?

[americanstranger]

11. It's a code word for the Fundies.

I've pointed this out on a couple of other 'comma' threads today.

From The Agonist:

A lot of people have been slamming Bush for his comment that Iraq is "just a comma". As an e-mail correspondent pointed out, this is another case where Bush is using code words to speak directly to his Christian right base.

The phrase is: "Never put a period where God has put a comma." Which is to say - it ain't over yet, and God may well make it better. So Iraq's bad, but if we trust in God, he'll make it better.

This is the thing about Bush - he is constantly littering his speeches with code words and phrases meant for the religious right. Other people don't hear them, but they do, and most of the time it allows Bush both to say what those who aren't evangelical or born again want to hear, while still reassuring the religious right wants to hear.

...

The other name for this is dog whistle politics. When you blow a dog whistle humans can't hear it, but the dogs sure can. It's a pitch higher than humans can hear. When you speak in code like this, most of the time the only people who hear and understand what you just said are the intended group, who have an understanding of the world and a use of words that is not shared by the majority of the population.

http://agonist.org/ian_welsh/20060925/just_a_comma_dog_whistle_politics

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[edhopper]

13. You're probably right,

but he has such a poor grasp of English, that he used it in an imbecilic way.

[cui bono]

18. Fascinating. Thx for the link. n/t

[jimshoes]

12. Frankly I think he's just

a dunce that can't string a coherent sentence together to save his life.

[zauberflote]

15. It's up

at
<http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/09/25/cafferty-sometimes-politicians-say-really-dumb-things/>

[cui bono]

17. did you happen to notice

that he first said "Iran" and had to correct it to "Iraq"? So if Iran is the comma... :popcorn:

[Gabi Hayes]

19. Bush is just having his period

[tnlefty]

20. Welcome to DU. cui bono!

IF Iran is the comma - sorry I don't want to think about that right now! :hi:

[cui bono]

22. ty tnlefty

I actually joined a while ago, now I'm back...

[tnlefty]

21. Did you happen to see Cindy Sheehan on Washington Journal this am?

'My son was not a comma...'? I thought that she did a great job handling the occasional nutjobs that called to give her a hard time.