Code Words

From dKosopedia

Much of political discourse in the United States is conducted in a code designed to express a particular point of view to supporters, while being able to deny that implication to the rest of society. This practice is generally felt to be necessary when there is wide public agreement that the point of view in question is evil and unAmerican, as with slavery in the 19th century, and racism today, or with Capitalist Robber Barons, who have a separate set of Economic Code Words. No such restraint is required yet on the issues of gays, abortion, the mentally ill, the homeless, or immigrants.

Talking in code has been called dog-whistle politics, after the high-pitched whistles that dogs can hear but not people. This can be construed as Liberal/Progressive code for

Racist: Dog, i.e. non-human.

In Black culture, talking in code can be called "signifying", as illustrated in the song Signifying Monkey. "What he said about yo' Mamma made me mad." "Signifying monkey, stay up in your tree. You are always lying and signifying but you better not monkey with me."

Newspeak

The above is included in the definition of Orwellian Newspeak, as described in the novel 1984. The key code words in the novel were

Peace: War
Freedom: Slavery
Strength: Ignorance

The idea of Newspeak as a language is that its structure allows it to substitute for thought. One of the most important words in Newspeak is "doubleplusungood". "Ungood" roughly means "bad", "plusungood" "worse", "doubleplusungood" "much worse than that". In the Republican and White Supremacist contexts, we would have, approximately,

ungood = Democrat; N*****; Obama
plusungood = Socialist; N*****-lover; Obama!
doubleplusungood = AntiChrist; Black Supremacist; OBAMA!!!!

Any resemblance to any actual political regime or ideology is purely intentional.

Democratic Glossary

Contrary to all of the conspiracy theories, Democrats don't have that much of a hidden agenda. When a Democrat calls a far-Right Republican such as Rep. Michelle Bachmann or talking head Glenn Beck a Wing-nut, that means pretty much what it says: a Right-winger saying crazy things. "Echo chamber" is a metaphor for the proud Dittohead followers of Rush Limbaugh and others like them endlessly repeating the talking points of the day, but not secret code.

But there appear to be a few important instances, and a common theme in some of them. What if the Republicans carry through on any of their major threats? States aren't actually turning down stimulus money (though a few Governors went through a charade of trying), and Texas isn't really going to secede, for all the talk, but a recent book, In the President's Secret Service, by Ronald Kessler, says that Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, four times the number for his predecessor George W. Bush, and that the Secret Service is greatly overstretched. Four out of 44 US Presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, Kennedy) have been shot and killed. Ten to one odds are half as bad as one round of Russian Roulette (five to one with a six-chamber revolver).

Bipartisan effort: Enough rope for Republicans to hang themselves if they won't cooperate—Barack Obama
Dog-whistle politics: Republican code words, with the implication that racist Republicans are the dogs
George “W.” Bush Jr. III: Tyrant King George III of England, who inspired many clauses in the US Constitution—Dave Barry (W was the third US president named George, and the son of the second one)
Inflame anti-American opinion: (said of abuse photos) Inflame Republican opinion—Barack Obama
Move forward/Don't look back: Don't prosecute Bush Administration crimes, for fear of provoking racist paranoia to the breaking point—Barack Obama
Opt-out: In Health Care, lock-in
Reaching across the aisle: To Blue Dogs.—President Barack Obama, Sen. Evan Bayh D-IN; The Republican Party was fun while it lasted, but it is over now. It's hangover time.—Rachel Maddow, GOP in Exile
Repeal Don't Ask, Don't Tell: Change DADT in a sensible but undefined manner at some unspecified future date, but allow dishonorable discharges of gays in the military to proceed in the meantime. This is to avoid provoking Christian Right paranoia further and possibly derailing larger initiatives.
Shrub: George W. Bush being strictly Bush League—Molly Ivins
Summit of All Fears: Values Voter Summit; They're afraid. They're very afraid.—Rachel Maddow

Republican Glossary

When said by a Republican, these words and phrases commonly have the real meanings shown. For some of them, a particularly egregious or otherwise notable user is noted, or in some cases the source of the observation.

Abstinence-Armageddon

Abstinence-only sex education: Get AIDS and die, sinners.—Billy Graham
Accountability: Sovereign immunity—Dick Cheney
Actionable intelligence: Groupthink—George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld
Affirmative action: Organized discrimination against Whites—Pat Buchanan, Ward Connerly
Air quotes, Scare quote gesture in speech, using two fingers of each hand: OMG, the Democrats are using Code Words!—John McCain, speaking of the "health of the mother" exception in abortion laws.
Al Qaeda: Saddam Hussein—The entire Bush Administration and PNAC
Alarmist: Anybody who talks about the threat of Global Warming.
Antichrist, The: OMG, he's Black!
Anti-Semitism: Concern over Israel's war crimes and Apartheid policies—AIPAC; Israeli reaction to Goldstone Report, Jimmy Carter, Israel's own peace protesters
Apology: "I'm sorry you made me so angry."—Joe Wilson
Armageddon: OMG, he's Black!

Atheist-Black

Atheist: Adherent of any religion other than ours, including Darwinism, and also every other form of Christianity; Pres. Jimmy Carter, after he left the Southern Baptist Convention.
Average Americans: White, male, Christian Americans—National Republican Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh, commenting on Republican opposition to protecting female military contractors from rape by co-workers
Balanced budget: Trillions for war, but not one penny for social programs, except government health care in Iraq
Balance of powers: Meaningless impediments to proper government—Dick Cheney
Be afraid. Be very afraid: I didn't say that. You didn't hear that from me.—RNC Chairman Michael Steele
Beating the drum of defeat: See Quagmire.
Bipartisanship: "Date rape"—Grover Norquist; My way or the highway.—George W. Bush
Big government: Social programs for the poor and minorities—Ronald Reagan
Big tent: You can come in, but you have to stand over there and cheer whenever we give the signal
Black: N*****; The morally and intellectually inferior, tyrannical, vengeful, out-of-control ruling minority race that is Destroying Our Country just like we told you they would for all those years, and just like they did after the War of Northern Aggression before we took them in hand; The Sum of All Fears. However, President Barack Obama noted on the David Letterman show that he was Black before the election.

Brotherhood-Christian

Brotherhood: What have you done for me lately? See also Liberty, Equality
Bureaucrat: Malevolent and incompetent Democratic appointee, or benevolent and competent Republican appointee such as Michael Brown of FEMA. The benevolence and competence of Republican appointees consists in demonstrating that government cannot accomplish anything good, so that voters will realize the foolishness of entrusting anything to the Government, especially Health Care. Does not apply to health insurance company employees when denying claims or terminating customer coverage, because they are in the always-competent, always-virtuous Private Sector.
Canada: Soviet Russia under Stalin
Capitalism: Socialism for the rich, social Darwinism for the poor
Capitulate: Negotiate; elect Democrats
Celebrity: OMG, he's Black!—John McCain, the "wrinkly white-haired guy" in Paris Hilton's ad in reply
Center-Right: Center-White
Chairman Mao, Chairman Obama: OMG, he's Black!
Choice: In Health Care, the choice between having government bureaucrats between you and your doctor, or insurance company bureaucrats between you and your doctor; in the abortion debate, the choice to murder babies or abortion doctors
Christian: Intolerant, hypocritical, Dominionist Crusader—Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, Mike Huckabee, Blackwater/Xe founder Erik Prince, R. J. Rushdoony

Christian country-Conspiracy

Christian country (US): White Christian country--Christian Identity
Civil war: A fevered conspiracy theory of Democrats shouting down Republicans and starting fist fights at Health Care Town Hall meetings, but not the actual Texas secessionist talk, Republican death threats against Obama, or militants with assault weapons outside the meetings—Jon Voight
Clash of civilizations: Anti-Muslim Crusade
Class war: Oppression of the rich by the poor
Clean coal: It's as dirty as ever, but we sweep the dirt under the rug.—The coal industry
Commentator: Propagandist
Common sense: Obvious to any racist Real American
Communist: OMG, he's Black!
Compassionate Conservatism: Gentle rape—George H. W. Bush
Competition: Subsidies and other government favors—Adam Smith
Conscience: In the form con-science, Karl Rove's tested and verified methods for fooling almost enough of the people almost enough of the time, and making up the difference in voter suppression. There may be another meaning, but we wouldn't know anything about that.
Consensus: What we say we think
Conservative: Greedy, racist, or Dominionist; reactionary
Conspiracy: Any legitimate action by more than one Democrat

Constitution-Debate

Constitution: What Scalia said, or very likely something even sillier, like what Thomas said.
Contract With America: Contract on America—Newt Gingrich, as observed by President Bill Clinton
Controversial: Over the dead bodies of our most deluded followers and as many Godless, gritless liberals as we can get them to take out first
Corporate responsibility: Maximizing profit—Milton Friedman
Corruption: Acting in the public interest, rather than staying bought by corporations
Creationism: The religious theory that claims that Southern White males are not descended from monkeys, that is to say, Black Africans. Although you might be.
Culture war: "This is a Christian country! How dare you quote Thomas Jefferson?"; The oppression of the Christian Right by "Darwinist" atheists—Charlton Heston
Cut and run: Negotiate an end to an unwinnable war and bring the troops home, like those Pinko traitors Richard M. Nixon and Henry Kissinger, or refuse to get bogged down in Iraq like George H. W. Bush, who always liked Jeb better anyway.—George W. Bush, John McCain See also Beat the drum of defeat, Capitulate.
Darwinism: The theory (some say "religion") that all humans, including rich White Southern males, are descended from monkeys, that is to say, from Black Africans, even though we know that Adam was White, and Africans are Black because of the curse of Ham.
Death panels: OMG, he's Black!—Betsy McCaughey, Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Chuck Grassley
Death tax: Inheritance tax, when the government gets to tax your father's capital gains before you get hold of his investments.
Debate: Shut up and repeat after me—Teabaggers

Defense-Elitism

Defense: Hitting them back first—Project for the New American Century
Defense Department: War Department, its original name
Democrat Party: Traitors, terrorists, Black Supremacist racists, and of course rats, bent on Destroying Our Country
Democratic Party: Never heard of it
Destroying Our Country: OMG, he's Black! They're taking over! They'll murder us in our beds!
Diplomacy: Shoot first and refuse to answer questions later
Disputes, These kind of: It's GANG RAPE!—Sen. Jeff Sessions III, called out by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, 2009-10-15 for comments on Sen. Al Franken's amendment to bar the government from doing business with contractors that bar employees from suing.
Disaster planning: What, me worry?—Alfred E. Newman
Domestic terrorist: The ACLU, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the NAACP, any anti-war organization
Due process: The rules that apply only to Real Americans. And corporations, of course.
Economic policy: Tax cuts for the rich, which not coincidentally Starve the Beast.
Economics: Fairy tales, "Voodoo" Reaganomics, Market Fundamentalism, pie in the sky
Economist: Corporate shill—Milton Friedman
Education: Indoctrination—Prussian philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Elitism: Wanting everybody to get a real education

Empathy-Fiscal responsibility

Empathy: Palling around with the riff-raff
Enemy combatant: Your grandmother, if we say so; common criminal; inhuman monster terrorist not deserving of fundamental human rights such as Miranda warnings—Newt Gingrich
Energy policy: Drill, baby, drill!—Former Gov. Sarah Palin
Enhanced interrogation: Torture—Bush Administration Principals; state terrorism—Former VP Dick Cheney
Entitlement: Benefit for unworthy persons, who are not Real Americans, as opposed to tax cuts for the rich.
Equality: More equal for us—George Orwell, Animal Farm; more equal for corporations—US Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Application of Fourteenth Amendment rights for ex-slaves to corporations. See also liberty, brotherhood
European: Effete anti-American Socialist defeatist
Evidence: Lousy Liberal-biased facts
Evolution: Slander!! You can't tell me that I'm descended from Black Africans!
Executive privilege: "When the President does it, it's not a crime."—Former President Richard M. Nixon
Expert: Corporate shill; junk scientist; Rush Limbaugh
Facts: Ideology; lies; Biblical myths; canting hypocrisy
Fair and Balanced: We'll bring in people we don't agree with, and then ridicule them and shout them down.—Bill O'Reilly, Fox News
Family values: White male supremacy
Fascist: OMG, he's Black!
Feminist: Man hater—Charlton Heston; 95% of threat to marriage—Phyllis Schlafly (Gays are the other 5%.)
Fiscal responsibility: Cutting social programs for the poor and minorities

Focus on the Family-Great Communicator

Focus on the Family: Focus on gay rights and abortion—James Dobson
Forget the Code Words: Let's get straight to lying--Rudy Giuliani, Meet the Press, 2009-Sep-06
Foundation; Solid, workable, commonsense and realistic: Only measures that preserve oil and coal company profits—US Chamber of Commerce on Climate Change bill
Founders, The: The slave-owning members of the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention
France: Home of cowardly, elitist, cheese-eating surrender monkeys; enemies of Liberty, Equality, Brotherhood as defined here
Free and fair election: One that our candidate won
Free enterprise, free markets, free trade: In Voodoo Reaganomics, Free for corporations, not for actual persons—Milton Friedman
Freedom of speech, and of the press: When I want to hear your opinion, I'll tell it to you.
Gay agenda, the: The End of Civilization as We Know It--The Christian Right
Godless: Democratic, even if you taught Sunday school—Elizabeth Dole ad against Kay Hagan
Golden Rule, the: 1) He who has the gold makes the rules. 2) Do unto others before they can do unto you. 3) Expect others to do unto you as you have done unto them. OMG, he's Black!
Government-run: Incompetent. Here, let us demonstrate that for you.
Government takeover: Yankee government takeover that will force us to pay for Health Care for N*****s.—Neo-Confederate Rep. Joe Wilson
Grassroots organization: Subsidiary of lobbying firm—Former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey
Great Communicator, The: Ronald Reagan, the Great Prevaricator

Great White Hope-Inartfully worded

Great White Hope: Racist call for a White boxer to beat Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight boxing champion, in 1909; play and movie, both starring James Earl Jones; call for new leader of Republican Party in 2009—Rep. Lynn Jenkins See also Inartfully worded
Greatest country in the world, The: The United States—in the early 1950s, when Jim Crow was still the law, gays were firmly in the closet, abortion was illegal, and even most teenagers knew their place.
Habeas Corpus: In the Original Intent of the Founders, does not apply to riff-raff like Blacks and furriners
Health Care Plan, Republican: Don't get sick, but if you do, die quickly—Rep. Alan Grayson
Health Care providers: Health Care deniers—Frank Luntz, noted by Ralph Nader
Healthy Forests: No Tree Left Behind
High value detainee: Someone of high political value, someone we can torture a useful confession out of—Dick Cheney
Hippie: Drug-using N*****-lover
Honesty: Plausible deniability
Human rights: Rights of corporations; Property rights. Well, guns, too.—Project for the New American Century, NRA
Ideology: Democrat ideas; Socialist central planning—Sen. John Cornyn R-TX
I don't recall: I could tell you, but then they'd have to kill me.
Illegal immigrants: Immigrants; Natural-born Latino citizens; illegal, n. "A term used by descendents of European immigrants to refer to descendants of Indigenous Americans"—ricardomath on Daily Kos
Immorality: Sex education—John McCain
Inartfully worded: What idiot said what we meant?—Republican National Committee (Concerning a questionnaire that suggested the use of voter registration records for denying health care to Republicans in a racist "Democrat" Health Care plan); See also Great White Hope, The Truth!!, Michelle Bachmann

Independent-Law and order

Independent: From a company that is owned and operated by lobbyists—Dick Armey
Independent contractor: Employee with no benefits who can't unionize.—FedEx
Inflation: Rising wages for hourly workers—Alan Greenspan
Infrastructure: Pork
Issues: Abortion, gay rights, and OMG, he's Black!
Judeo-Christian Values: Racism, willful ignorance, theocracy, slavery, intolerance, Crusades, genocide, rejoicing at the sufferings of the Damned in Hell; also anti-Semitism
Judicial activist: One who holds that Constitutional protections apply to the riff-raff (particularly Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren, who should have been impeached) or even to terrorists
Junk Science: Science, particularly evolutionary biology ("Darwinist religion") and alarmist Global Warming
Just Say No: Thinking for yourself should be classified as an illegal drug. Wait, don't you get it? He's Black!!!
Keynesianism: The discredited theory of economist John Maynard Keynes that government spending is appropriate in a recession to stimulate the economy, when we know perfectly well that only tax cuts for the rich can ever stimulate the economy
Kill Grandma bill: OMG, he's Black!
Kinder, gentler nation: Practicing kinder, gentler rape—George H. W. Bush See Compassionate Conservatism
Law and order: Keeping the riff-raff in its place

Legal technicalities-Liberty

Legal technicalities: Constitutional protections and other fundamental human rights
Let me be clear and direct: Let me obfuscate and cherry-pick the data—AHIP
Let me be honest: Let my Nay be Nay, and my Yea also be Nay, and especially my "Let me help you with that".—Eric Cantor, Orrin Hatch, Bart Stupak, the entire Republican Party of No, the entire Mad Tea Party movement, the Congressional Blue Dogs.
Liberal: N*****-lover. Also,

Everybody on the Republican Heroes pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Ronald Reagan
George W. Bush, for admitting the reality of Global Warming
George H. W. Bush for raising taxes
Ronald Reagan, who signed the Convention Against Torture in 1988, during a period of much higher terrorist activity, and also insisted on applying the rule of law to them as common criminals. Thanks to Glenn Greenwald for pointing this out at Salon.com. Reagan also took a stand against banning openly gay teachers from public high schools in California.
Barry Goldwater, the anti-Christian-Right supporter of gays in the military
Richard M. Nixon, the tree-hugging (EPA), Socialist (Negative income tax to replace Welfare), Peacenik (ended Vietnam War) appeaser (trip to China)
Milton Friedman, but only during his brief Socialist delusion, when he thought that a Negative Income Tax to replace Welfare was a Conservative idea.
Anti-Socialist F. A. Hayek, author of The Road to Serfdom and Why I am Not a Conservative—"Experience has shown that separate never is equal and cannot be equal."
Edmund "Tax and Spend" Burke, who wrote "Parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be necessary for true economy."

Liberal bias: Any concern for facts or the riff-raff; empathy
Liberal media: Those biased by facts; Mainstream media
Libertarian: Believer in the right to do anything that does not harm anybody else of any importance.
Liberty: Property rights, gun rights, no regulation of business, the right to oppress the poor, minorities, and immigrants. See also equality, brotherhood.

Loony-Nazi

Loony Left: Moderate Republicans like Former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell, especially if they are Black—Rush Limbaugh
Magic of the market: "Rolls in, rolls in, my God, how the money rolls in, rolls in..."—Milton Friedman
Mainstream media: Right-wing media
Mainstream of American thought: American exceptionalism; White Supremacy; unfettered corporate greed; religious intolerance
Media conspiracy: Actual reporting
Medicare: How health care should be run—Not by the government. Right?—RNC Chairman Michael Steele
Medicare Advantage: An advantage for the insurance companies, at considerable cost to taxpayers, with no medical benefit
Messiah: OMG, he's Black!
Middle-East Peace Process: Armageddon, starting with Jews and Muslims wiping each other out—Christian Right
Moderate Muslim: One who pretends that Islam is not fundamentally intolerant and violent
Modernize: Eliminate, as in regulations, Social Security, Medicare...
Monkey: OMG, he's Black—Rep. Roy Blunt
Moral relativism: You go to Hell!
National security: Keeping the world safe for kleptocracy
Nationalize: Bail out
Nazi (National Socialist): Jewish, Black, who cares, as long as they're Democrats

Neoconservative-Original intent

Neoconservative: Edmund who?—Project for the New American Century
News: What it says in our press releases—Stephen Colbert
No Child Left Behind: No Child's Behind Left—George W. Bush; If we can keep them sufficiently ignorant, God will take them all up in the Rapture.
No New Taxes: No social programs—Grover Norquist, President George H. W. Bush
North Korean: OMG, he's Black--Andrea Tantaros
Nullification: No, we're not, and you can't make us.
Obama is a foreigner, Hitler, Stalin, the AntiChrist, etc: OMG, he's Black!
Obamacare: A Black witch doctor is going to be looking at your daughter down there!
Objectivism: Ayn Rand political/economic theory: Get yours, and the Devil take the hindmost.—Alan Greenspan
OMG, he's Black: And worse than that, he intends to be another Abraham Lincoln; The Sum of All Fears; Reparations and revenge
Oppressed minority: Rich White Christian males
Ordinary citizen: Lobbyist, campaign official, or Fox News employee
Original intent: In Constitutional law, slavery and exclusion of women and the poor from voting

Orwell-Principles

Orwellian thinking: Their policy debate, not our coded lies—Sarah Palin
Our Country: The United States—in the early 1950s, when Blacks, women, and even most teenagers knew their place and gays were firmly-closeted faggots.
Outside agitators: N*****-lovers
Outside the mainstream: N*****-lover
Ownership society: Way more for us with a few crumbs for you, if you vote our way
Partisan: Democrat
Patriot: Scoundrel
Person: Corporation—US Supreme Court; White male Christian—any White Supremacist or Southern racist
Personal responsibility: Do as I say, not as I do
Philosophical differences; The difference between Republican kleptocracy, racism, and bigotry, and Democratic attention to people's needs.
Pinko: N*****-lover
Policy: Tax cuts for the rich, intended to force budget cuts in social programs
Pork: Social programs for the poor and minorities; Science, such as volcano monitoring—Bobby Jindal
Pray for Obama, Psalm 109, line 8: "Let his days be few; and let another take his office." Line 9 continues, "Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow." Biblical anti-Obama slogan: Use of Psalm 109:8 funny or sinister?
Presidential contender: Leading panderer who has not yet been caught in a scandal; Dick Cheney—Dick Cheney; Ron Paul—CPAC
Principles, Conservative: "All for ourselves and nothing for other people"—Adam Smith

Problems-Reparations

Problems: Blacks and others of low caste who don't know their place—Strom Thurmond, Trent Lott; gays—Christian Right; terrorist Liberals—Ann Coulter; women—Phyllis Schlafly; OMG, he's Black!
Pro-Israel: Anti-Semitic; working to create Armageddon between Jews, Arabs, and Russia
The Public Interest: The interests of corporations
Public Option: Social program for the riff-raff; theft of almost all legitimate health insurance company profits. See also Single Payer
Public works: Pork, such as the Bridge to Nowhere
Quagmire: Walter Cronkite was a traitor! We could have won in Vietnam!—John McCain; No, no, Afghanistan is Obama's Vietnam. We have to get out now.—George Will
Quotas: Organized discrimination against Whites
Racism: Alleged Black and Hispanic hatred of Whites—Glenn Beck, Pat Buchanan; Liberal values—David Horowitz
Radical: N*****-lover
Reagan Revolution: Voodoo politics
Real Americans: White male Republican Christians plus Phyllis Schlafly, Ann Coulter, Michelle Malkin, and Sarah Palin
Reality: Cloud-Cuckoo-Land--Aristophanes, Will Rogers
Religion: Intolerant, racist, Creationist, Dominionist Fundamentalism—Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson
Reparations: OMG, he's Black! They want everything!—Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, called out by Stephen Colbert in Blackwashing

Reporter-Socialist

Reporter: Propagandist
Republic: Tyrannical oligarchy, as described by Plato in his book The Republic.
Republican Base: Abraham Lincoln was right on one thing, anyway. You can fool some of the people all of the time.
Republican hero: Pro-civil rights, pro-environment, pro-consumer Republican before the Southern Strategy began in 1964; kleptocratic, racist, bigoted Republican from 1964 on
Responsibility, individual: Collective irresponsibility
Right to life: Right to lie; Right of the unborn to be born, but nothing thereafter. In extreme cases, Death to abortionists!
Rule of law: What we say goes—John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, John Yoo
Running government like a business: Enron--George W. Bush, the first president with an MBA
"Scare" quotes: Be afraid. Be very afraid. See also Air quotes
Scariest words in the English language: "I'm from the Republican Party, and I'm here to help."—Ronald Reagan
Science: Creationism, in the guise of Intelligent Design, aka Cargo Cult Science
Secular Humanist: N*****-loving Darwinist who claims that we are all descended from Black Africans, even Southern White males
Sensible: Greedy, racist, and intolerant
Silent Majority, The: The shrieking minority
Single Payer: Social program for the riff-raff; theft of all legitimate health insurance company profits. See also Public Option
Shining city on a hill: White Protestants only—Ronald Reagan
Slavery: OMG, he's Black!— the coming enslavement of Whites—Glenn Beck
Small government: No social programs for the poor, women, and minorities—Ronald Reagan
Socialism: Theft of obscene corporate profits—Christian Reconstructionist founder R. J. Rushdoony
Socialist: National Socialist (Nazi)

Socialized Medicine-Tax cut

Socialized Medicine: Theft of corporate and professional profits--Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan Speaks Out Against Socialized Medicine; American Medical Association, Operation Coffee Cup
Southern aristocracy, the: White kleptocrats
Southern Strategy: The South will rise again! (Not really, but they won't know that.)—Sen. Strom Thurmond, President Richard Nixon, Sen. Barry Goldwater, President Ronald Reagan, Sen. Jeff Sessions
Sovereignty: The right to reject social programs; formerly the right to reject desegregation, and before that Federal restrictions on slavery
Special interests: The public interest—Dick Cheney
Start over with a blank sheet on Health Care: Abandon Health Care—Republicans at Health Care Summit
Starve the beast: No social programs for the poor and minorities—Grover Norquist
States' rights: The right to oppress their own people—John C. Calhoun, Richard Nixon, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan
Statesman: Naked opportunist
Stimulus: Porkulus
Strict constructionist: One who upholds slavery and exclusion of women and the poor from voting; one who maintains that the 14th Amendment protections for ex-slaves are primarily meant to protect corporations
Support the troops: Support the Military-Industrial Complex—George W. Bush
Tax cut: The solution to all problems

Tax protest-Trickle-down

Tax protest: OMG, he's Black!—Teabaggers
Terrorist: N*****-lover—Ann Coulter
Terrorist sympathizer: N*****-loving reporters
"That boy": OMG, he's Black—Rep. Geoff Davis R-TN, called out by Stephen Colbert in Blackwashing
Thanks, but no, thanks: I was for it before I was against it—Sarah Palin, on the Bridge to Nowhere
The One: OMG, he's Black!—John McCain, invoking the ghost of Culture Warrior Charlton Heston
Think tank: In the tank for groupthink
Thought police: N*****-lover—Charlton Heston
Thoughtful: I've thought about it, and I don't give a damn.
Tort reform: Protecting corporate and professional profits from the conspiracy of evil consumers and their lawyers
Town Hall meeting: Republican Party rally—Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. John McCain
Traitor: Democrat
Trickle-down: In Voodoo Reaganomics, gusher up; in horse-and-sparrow economics, corn that has been through the horse

Truth-War on drugs

Truth: What we say today, no matter what we said last year or even last week; but see The Truth!!
Tyranny: Civil rights, abortion rights, gay rights, and regulation of business; Federal taxes on alcohol enforced by Revenooers
Tyrant: OMG, he's Black!
UnAmerican: OMG, he's Black!
Unitary executive: King; theocrat—Dick Cheney, John Yoo
Unlawful combatant: Whoever we say, to be held during King George “W.” Bush Jr. III's pleasure
Unpatriotic: N*****-loving; in the case of former US Senator Max Cleland, having lost only two legs and an arm while serving in Vietnam
Unsound: Principled
Uppity: Thinking that equality applies to you—Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, R-GA, called out by Stephen Colbert in Blackwashing
Voodoo economics: Never heard of it—Vice President George H. W. Bush
Voter Fraud: Anything that lets more poor people and minorities vote—John McCain
War hero: John McCain, who got shot down over Vietnam by disobeying standing orders to evade the missile coming at his plane—John McCain; Not Max Cleland or John Kerry, however
War on drugs: War on Black society, epitomized by the slogan "cocainized N*****s".

War on terror-You lie

War on terror: Crusade against Islam—George Bush, who heard it from God
Waste, fraud, and abuse: Government spending on the poor and minorities
White house watermelon patch postcard: OMG, he's Black!
White Supremacy: See Inartfully worded
WMD: Weapons of mass distraction—Project for the New American Century, especially Bill Kristol
Worldview: You are either with us or against us.—George W. Bush; You are either a Bible-believing, born-again Christian or a Godless Liberal bent on the destruction of everything good and true.—The Christian Right
"You lie!": You lie, boy.—Spoken by Joe Wilson; translation by Maureen Dowd

External Resources

Frank Luntz is the principal architect of Republican code language. He has publicly praised the idea of Newspeak. See

Words That Work, Revised, Updated Edition: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
What Americans Really Want...Really: The Truth About Our Hopes, Dreams, and Fears
Candidates, Consultants and Campaigns: The Style and Substance of American Electioneering

George Lakoff has written extensively on this subject on the Democratic side.

Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives
The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand 21st-Century American Politics with an 18th-Century Brain
Metaphors We Live By
The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
Thinking Points: Communicating Our American Values and Vision
Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think, also available as Moral Politics: What Conservatives Know That Liberals Don't
Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

Words Matter, by Ralph Nader

The language used to discuss this subject is often intemperate on all sides. Not all of the following sites are objective or reliable sources, but they demonstrate the nature of the controversy.

None of this is new. Many of these demagogic practices are described in Aristotle's Politics (numerous modern translations), and in Prophets of Deceit: A Study of the Techniques of the American Agitator, by Leo Lowenthal and Norbert Guterman. Harper & Bro., January 1, 1949. ASIN B001P08ZEC (Out of print)

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