When the Truth Becomes a Dog Whistle
By: Rich Lowry - nationalreview.com -
There’s a school of thought that believes that every instrument that makes a sound is a dog whistle.
The MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan provided a remarkably telling example of this perspective a week or so ago when he objected to Bill Maher’s talking about the problem of murders in Chicago in particular and black-on-black crime in general.
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Hasan’s rant is worth dwelling on because it’s such a clear demonstration of how intolerable certain realities are to left-wing opinion, even when they involve black lives in the starkest way possible.
Hasan sounded as if Maher was the moral equivalence of Lester Maddox for retailing ...
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