Dog Whistle –
the new direct response marketing tool! It works like MAGIC! Sometimes.
The road to hell. It takes a lot of
good intentions to pave that sucker. It takes a few bad intentions too. Take
the Dog Whistle for example,
Dog Whistle
Noun
1.
Politics. a political strategy, statement,
slogan, etc., that conveys a controversial, secondary message understood only by
those who support the message:
His criticism of welfare was a dog whistle
appealing to racist voters.
Believe it or not, Dog Whistle App, Google
Picture this: A new infomercial shown on your media of
choice at all hours of the day and night. The product being sold? The Dog
Whistle. It is the perfect product for our sound-byte craving media and
political classes. Especially for our 24 hour news and entertainment media which
love to blow things out of all proportion. Need something or hope for something
to happen politically to satisfy your need for “Gotcha” politics? Dog Whistle
is perfect for that!
Dog Whistle is perfect when going “wall to wall” covering
the latest demonstration, die in, and “societal victim crusades”. The dog
whistle is blown in sitcoms, news shows, sporting events and you name it, and
you know it even finds a place in “reality” TV shows. Face it some folks are
responding to Dog Whistles and not even know it. Dog Whistle is different from
a “meme”. “Meme” is coordination of thought (posturing) toward a specific political purpose.
A Dog Whistle is an appeal to those who are not yet part of the “meme”. Lets
call them the “uncoordinated”. Purveyors of the “meme” blow the Dog Whistle to
encourage action, outrage and donations, murder and/or mayhem from the “uncoordinated”.
Dog Whistle is the tool everybody in politics and media loves
to blow. Some folks aren’t even aware that they are blowing one! Take a look at Facebook. Look at that! Another political commercial, how about that? Facebook
is wall to wall commercials for all things political – even things that we weren’t
aware had a political context. Some Facebook
users sure love to blow that whistle! How many times were you dared to “like”
or “share” a post that you couldn’t give a very firm crap about? I get a lot of
those too. I get so many that, in the future, I will encourage all political Facebook
users that they should post that dreck on their own blog, and quit posting political
crap to Facebook. PEOPLE START YOUR OWN BLOG FOR CHRIST SAKES!!! Jeez, with
some people – they just don’t get the hint!
Not all dog whistles when blown are equal in their
effectiveness. Nor do most Dog Whistles when blown predict future action on the
listening dog. Unfortunately some do. And they have had disastrous results.
Climb into the Time Magazine machine with me and take a look
at this Dog Whistle. We need to go back to 2010, when Time blew the whistle on
dangerous right wing militias. Time posited militias as the police officers
deadliest threat! Time put the whistle out there for those dastardly militias
to get a clue and start attacking police. Didn’t happen. Not all Dog Whistles
are worth the paper they are printed on. And since Time requires a fee to read
their tripe, here is a copy that doesn’t involve money, but does involve
visiting dailycaller.com. How
about that warning involving, “two main dangers of a mass-casualty
attack: that a group of armed radicals will strike out in perceived
self-defense, or that a lone wolf, trained and indoctrinated for war, will grow
tired of waiting”…
Or remember that failed Dog Whistle Sarah Palin was accused
of blowing? Placing democrats in crosshairs! How dare her. Somebody could get
hurt. Of course, the person who did shoot rep. Gabriele Giffords was a looney leftist
who worshipped Marx and the Communist Manifesto, and loved Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
Even the New York Times had trouble, much to their chagrin, linking Loughner to
anything remotely related to militias or the right in general. So there were no
high fives passed around the news rooms that day. Call that Time Magazine "meme" a fail. Dog Whistles do fail to achieve
their hoped for results.
Sometime Dog Whistles do work. And the results can be
devastating. Former Mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani has commented
specifically on President 0bama’s use of racial Dog Whistles of late. Giuliani
was too kind to the president in my opinion, but that’s me. He accused 0bama of propaganda. He accused 0bama
and his administration’s propaganda at stigmatizing sworn police officers and duly
appointed grand juries in the town of Ferguson Missouri and New York City.
The results of the Dog Whistles blown lately with such extreme and continual force by
President 0bama, Attorney General Holder, Reverend Albert Sharpton and a litany of race baiters, media types and pundits have finally born poisonous fruit. Police
officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos were ambushed and killed by a
black muslim enraged at what he perceived as injustice to blacks that has been
promoted 24 hours a day by the media, the president, the mayor of New York, and
the usual race hustlers who clamor to any camera or microphone. The murderer
took his own life shortly after executing the officers in their squad car.
My heart goes out to the family of ambushed NYPD police
officers. Words cannot express my sadness. Those men did not deserve this fate.
If you had been paying attention dear blog reader these
deaths were sadly predictable. I have a heavy feeling that those blowing the racial
Dog Whistle these past months were silently high fiving each other when they
learned the tragic news of the officers deaths.
As I understand it mayor di Blasio is not welcome to attend
the officer’s funerals. That makes perfect sense to me. He makes a habit out ofblowing the racial Dog Whistle. Now it makes sense why di Blasio decided to
enlarge the fence that surrounds Gracie Mansion in New York. I’m sure the citizens
of New York now know more than any of us the value of Dog Whistle politics.
Please allow me my turn to blow the Dog Whistle. Martin
Luther King’s holiday will be observed January 19, 2015. I hope that the fine
men and women of the NYPD do not choose that day to protest mayor di Blasio’s
blatant disregard for their lives by calling in sick. Dr King always promoted
protest by non-violent means. I am afraid of that January 19, 2015 would become
a date of violent infamy if the police of New York City choose that day for a
bout of blue flu. I hope that will not come true.
Not a Dog Whistle, Cub Run Cave, Cub Run Kentucky
Not a Dog Whistle, Cub Run Cave, Cub Run Kentucky
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