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December 28, 2011

NYT's Jeremy Peters accuses GOP of 'Dog-Whistle Politics'

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NYT's Peters on the 'Dog-Whistle Politics,' Subliminal Crosses of the Religious Right

By Clay Waters | December 28, 2011 | 16:36 newsbusters.org


New York Times media reporter Jeremy Peters was seeing things in Wednesday’s story on secret, “dog-whistle” religious appeals by GOP candidates past and present: “Appealing to Evangelicals, Hopefuls Pack Religion Into Ads.”

“Dog-whistle politics” is a derogatory term, often employed to describe what liberals consider to be coded, subliminal racist messages “pitched” too high for the general public to recognize. Peters, who seems suspicious of the idea of appealing to evangelical Christians, gets in a dig at Catholics to boot.
 

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