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CNN lapdog adds ‘breadbasket’ to Handbook of Racial Code Words after hearing Paul Ryan speech
Twitchy ^ | 09/15/2012 | Twitchy Staff

Posted on 09/15/2012 11:37:50 AM PDT by nhwingut

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To: nhwingut

According to Merriam Webster, the colloquialism “breadbasket” originated in 1753.

Not sure what civil war the term breadbasket originated in, but it was not ours.

Seriously, the media is becoming a Saturday Night Live skit.


21 posted on 09/15/2012 11:54:22 AM PDT by magellan
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To: Tublecane

“Bread Basket” should be compliment. It conjures up visions of bumper crops and silos filled to overflowing.


22 posted on 09/15/2012 11:55:18 AM PDT by Ax
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To: Sooth2222

These people are insane.


Yes, they are, but so are a lot of the target audience whew opinions they are trying to sway with their propaganda.

Have to give them credit, they really understand their base and they really know how to appeal to that base.


23 posted on 09/15/2012 11:56:51 AM PDT by rdcbn
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To: nhwingut

I can see where HAMby might be offensive to muslims.


24 posted on 09/15/2012 11:58:11 AM PDT by Dartman
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To: nhwingut; skeeter; Sooth2222; Cruz; ClearCase_guy; wilco200

NPR also has some disgusting views on racial code words.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2931280/posts


25 posted on 09/15/2012 11:59:25 AM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: nhwingut

Double-secret code words...

Wednesday

apple

napkin

chair

lunch

gum

glass

tire

house

dog

writing

walk

go

table

bird

pen

You should immediately report anyone using such words to SPL to be declared a racist bigot.

It is your patriotic duty to The Won.

.


26 posted on 09/15/2012 12:00:46 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Drango

NPR had some stooges giving the DNC line about the Lybian fiasco. They were all attacking Romney and giving the meme about the video at fault.

No discussioin or consideration of Obama fault. Just “romney had no right to comment”

It is 1979 with the MSM covering for Carter.

NPR is desperatly trying to link obama to clinton while reality links obama to carter.


27 posted on 09/15/2012 12:04:06 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Ax

Okay, but solos overflowing with fuel for rebel soldiers. Which means Ryan wants Florida’s resources to feed a new secession. Is it any coincidence Ryan turned secessionist when we have a black president?/s

Ow, my head hurts from trying to think like this guy. I was used to “states rights” meaning seeking to reimpose slavery. The kool-aid and pb&j stuff was cute. But this doesn’t even make sense.


28 posted on 09/15/2012 12:06:13 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: nhwingut

So, it would be racist to use the phrase “punched in the breadbasket?”.

Also, back to the racist theme: It would probably be more racist to note that Zimbabwe used to be known as “the breadbasket of Southern Africa” before Mugabe implemented his land reforms than to relate the fact that Florida supplied food during the Civil War, and hence was known as the “breadbasket of the South.”


29 posted on 09/15/2012 12:06:20 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nhwingut

For some actual facts, a little googling indicates there were different areas referenced as the “breadbasket of the South,” prior of course to today’s events.

The main references were to the Shenandoah Valley of VA, with a number of references to various Georgia counties and even to Atlanta, which would seem to have been more of a “bread shipping point.”

Not one reference to Florida for the phrase in 50 Googles.

In any case, VERY little wheat would have come out of FL during the War, though it was a major source of cattle and salt. Which would seem to make it more of a “hamburger basket.”


30 posted on 09/15/2012 12:06:58 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Perception wins all the battles. Reality wins all the wars.)
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The Shenandoah Valley was the "Breadbasket of the South" during the Civil War.

Don't know if that was a contemporary epithet or something that historians came up with later.

They actually did grow wheat there, something Florida isn't known for.

Floridians may have had similar traditions, something about their state as the "breadbasket of the Confederacy" -- as do Georgians and Texans -- but it's silly to see this as "dog-whistle" politics.

31 posted on 09/15/2012 12:08:21 PM PDT by x
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To: nhwingut

Don’t even pay attention to it. This is designed to be annoying and create tension.

Call it what it is: Childish.

The Ukraine is also the Breadbasket. I guess that’s racist too.


32 posted on 09/15/2012 12:08:28 PM PDT by OpusatFR
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To: nhwingut
Laz A. Mataz ‏@MrLazamataz @PeterHambyCNN You do know that you are becoming a self-parody and everyone is laughing at you, don't you?
33 posted on 09/15/2012 12:09:18 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Communist Party = Democrats. Socialist Party = Republicans. WE NEED A CAPITALIST FREEDOM PARTY!)
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To: Pearls Before Swine

No, if you punch the breadbasket you’re punching Florida. Which means you’re the Union army marching on with His truth and so forth.


34 posted on 09/15/2012 12:10:04 PM PDT by Tublecane
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To: Tublecane

Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!


36 posted on 09/15/2012 12:15:20 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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37 posted on 09/15/2012 12:15:33 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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To: nhwingut
Any word in the dictionary that was spoken by a person in the south before passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is by definition racist.

Along with all words spoken by Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan.

/sarc


38 posted on 09/15/2012 12:20:39 PM PDT by Iron Munro ("In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit." - Ayn Rand)
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What can one expect from the inbread media?

Leni

39 posted on 09/15/2012 12:25:27 PM PDT by MinuteGal
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To: nhwingut

Racebaiters will always claim that any word can be racist. Ignore the deep-rooted racists!


40 posted on 09/15/2012 12:31:53 PM PDT by rawhide
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