1. As a generally liberal Democrat, could you PLEASE start posting links to these news stories from actual news websites? I can't see your videos, and frankly, you more often than not just twist the facts to make something sound more sensational than what it really is. You have a radio show - I know, I get it. I just want to read a damn news story and make my own opinion. Thanks.

K at 1:54PM on Aug 5th 2008

2. At last, the major and cable nets are saying the same thing. I published the code here right after Obama won the nomination


Arrogant - uppity

inexperienced - doesn't know his place

presuming the presidency - give a nigger an inch and he'll take a mile

empty suit - genetically inferior to the white man

vapid celebrity - give us a number, boy.

I was around when blacks bore the mark of cain, were born with tails and were the children of satan. That was the going fundamentalist opinion in the early and mid fifties.

I grew up in the middle of the bigot belt and listened to it daily in conversations and on the radio.

This is nothing more than than recoding the same age-old racial stereotypes. The fact is Obama is demonstrably smarter and more able than the dumb white guy to play the yadayada card, since wingers and the corporate media need everything on cards these days.

He has specific and brilliant workable plans to get us free from foreign oil in ten years! What's mcsame got? Tire gauges.

after he came out for offshore drilling, one of countless recent flipflops, his oil campaign contributions hit 250 thousand dollars in the first hour.

Clif Kuplen at 2:27PM on Aug 5th 2008

3. This is the usual slime tactics the GOP likes to use - George Bush tried to convince he was just like the rest of us - Bush, who never had to work hard a day in his life, born with a silver spoon in it. And McCain - married to a woman with a $100 million fortune.
Yup, they are just the like the rest of us....

David S. at 3:33PM on Aug 5th 2008

4. nailed it! best comment i've heard or read yet about the mccain underhanded race-card 'strategy'. gergen hit it on the nose, as did you. keep 'em coming!

Eliz.

Elizabeth at 3:39PM on Aug 5th 2008

5. 2. At last, the major and cable nets are saying the same thing. I published the code here right after Obama won the nomination

Arrogant - uppity
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Etymology:
Middle English, from Latin arrogant-, arrogans, present participle of arrogare
Date: 14th century
1 : exaggerating or disposed to exaggerate one's own worth or importance often by an overbearing manner

inexperienced - doesn't know his place
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lack of experience in a job or profession, ie inexperienced teacher.

presuming the presidency - give a nigger an inch and he'll take a mile
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Assumption of already posessing the office of President without an election (european, ME tour.

empty suit - genetically inferior to the white man
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no knowledge of substance in the field in which one is trying to convince others that they are knowlegeable in that field.
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vapid celebrity - give us a number, boy.
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Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Al Gore, 50% of hollywood and most tv anchors.

I was around when blacks bore the mark of cain, were born with tails and were the children of satan. That was the going fundamentalist opinion in the early and mid fifties.
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That was then and this is now...why do you keep wishing for the old days?
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I grew up in the middle of the bigot belt and listened to it daily in conversations and on the radio.
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Was this before or after high school, or did you just tune in to KKKR 666 radio?
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This is nothing more than than recoding the same age-old racial stereotypes. The fact is Obama is demonstrably smarter and more able than the dumb white guy to play the yadayada card, since wingers and the corporate media need everything on cards these days.
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Or on teleprompters to fill that stuttering problem Obie has when he gets distracted from the "Word?"
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He has specific and brilliant workable plans to get us free from foreign oil in ten years! What's mcsame got? Tire gauges.
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More BS..Obama offered inflated tires and a tune up, no plan to do squat aout 10 years ahead. So like he should furnish tire gauges and spark plug plus an air cleaner to make up for that missing oil.
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after he came out for offshore drilling, one of countless recent flipflops, his oil campaign contributions hit 250 thousand dollars in the first hour.
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Just goes to show you there's truth to fool's and their money soon parted. What's next for Obama? McCain says there's chese on the moon, Obie gonna tell us its cheddar?


Clif Kuplen at 2:27PM on Aug 5th 2008
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Loser @2:27 8/5/08 but hey, he's old, cut some slack jack!

Dedmanrisn at 3:58PM on Aug 5th 2008

6. More Cenk bullshit,

us po' folk down heah in da south neva heards a word like arrogant befo'. We's jus' know that whens da youngins go's off an gets them some edjecation that they always comes back home all uppity! That there missah mccain, i done heards him say missah obama is that arrogant word. I ain't sho' whats that means but i sho's don't like it!! Iz jus know missah obama gonna make one damned fine presadent.

This is the 60's type ignorance that Gergen & Cenk would have you believe. Isn't this the lowest form of "talking down" to the intelligence of voters on both sides? Isn't this a sign of desperation when groups have to mesmerize the general public into believing the twisted side of any interpretation? Are we all so stupid we need interpretors to understand common lingual exchange? Cenk says yes.

Where do we look for the truth anymore when every single uttered word suddenly has a "code" meaning dissolving the message? Is this propoganda or a subliminal test as to how far they can go to check America's reasoning capacity? This borders on mind control in an effort to confuse individual comprehension to sort out simple facts before them.

Take it & put it on the stove & reduce it to whatever suits your interest but when we totally succumb to this type of vagueness we help tighten the leash just a little more.

This shit has really become mind boggling....

Bobby at 6:31PM on Aug 5th 2008

7. Hey there Big Guy,

Uppity....? Nancy Pelosi said a few days on CNN that she wants to "save the world". Lets be honest bossman, nothing is more uppity than that.

Willet at 6:11PM on Aug 5th 2008

8. Thanks Bobby
Nothing ever changes with these people.
Maybe I should have phrased that differently?

JIM at 7:07PM on Aug 5th 2008

9. Typical liberal tactic: when you can't find anything wrong with the actual words in a discourse, you have to assign "codes" with alternate meanings so that it means what you want it to mean.

Eston Teter at 9:42PM on Aug 5th 2008

10. Cenk

Isn't there enough differences between the two candidates to debate or discuss? Is it necessary for the Democrats to make up "Code Words" and make it evil? Are the Democrats that desperate trying to figure out why Hussein Obama is not way ahead in the polls instead of being tied with McCain that they have to resort to non issues? Yo left wingnuts, go reload your gun and shoot yourself in the foot again. You did such a stunning job of losing elections for Gore and Kerry, go try it again.

Uppity-disposed to exaggerate one's worth-Obama say's he is on Senate Banking Committee during a campaign speech. Not what you would call a verbal/mental mistake. One certainly must remember if he was on the Senate Banking Committee while he was in the Senate.

Try looking up a code word for "spineless", "cowards" or "yellowbellies" for the Democrats in Congress, led by Pelosi and Reid, who should have and have not and will not impeach Bush and Cheney. In the just released book suthor states a forged letter was in part used to start the Iraq War. If they had the balls, sorry Nanvy, the Democrats would have acted on the Tax Cheat Wexler's Impeach Resolutions, many, and all of this would have been cleared up one way or the other.
I guess Code word for Coward could be Democrat.

Robert OKane at 9:57PM on Aug 5th 2008

11. Clif

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Robert OKane at 10:24PM on Aug 5th 2008

12. "The Code" in itself, is a code. It's liberal "code" language for; "If-we-can't-find-anything-wrong-with-you,-we-have-to-make-up-sh!t."

Lizard at 10:56PM on Aug 5th 2008

13. Hey, if you Dems think playing the race card in this election is a winner, keep playing it. Bullshit still smells like bullshit, no matter how you try to dress it up.

cmw at 11:17PM on Aug 5th 2008

14. The man is uppity. He owns a $1.5 million house in Hyde Park, with a wine cellar. I have a wine rack that holds 8 bottles, and there are more bottles of Sam Adams in my fridge than bottles of wine in the rack.

When Obama campaigns in Wisconsin, does he try to order a glass of Merlot, or does he do the sensible thing and order a Leinenkugal Red or a sweet brandy Old Fashioned with Korbel brandy?

Forget the fact that Obama is black. Anyone can be uppity, whether white, black, Jewish, Hispanic, Asian, or Cheesehead.

And Cenk, no one ever accused of George Washington of being incredibly intelligent. In fact, some thought he was the last person who ought to take command of the Continental Army, based on the debacle at Fort Necessity.

Washington was respected because of his integrity and his leadership. If anything, John McCain is like John Adams, who was also a bit of a hothead.

And most people thought that Lincoln was just a country bumkin lawyer from the backwoods of Illinois who was way over his head as President, especially McClellan. According to Liam Neeson, who will play Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic, Lincoln simply went with the country bumpkin lawyer persona and used it to run roughshod over everyone.

Kent at 11:31PM on Aug 5th 2008

15. Hey Cocaine,

You were answered by me on Post #129 on the last blog.

Look for things before you accuse people of not answering your questions.

Botts at 12:13AM on Aug 6th 2008