Cokie Roberts of ABC News Says When Trump Calls Hillary ���Unhinged,��� He���s Using Sexist ���Code���

Have you noticed that one of the principal strategies of progressives now is to try to control language? Admittedly, it is a smart move. When you get to decide what words mean, even in contravention to what they apparently mean, then the principal mechanism by which thoughts and ideas are transmitted belongs to you.

 

The big thing in recent years is saying that one thing really means another, that when you use a particular word, it is ���code��� for something else. It is chiefly the province of the left, which breathlessly looks for any way that benign words can magically become ���code��� for expressions of racism, sexism, and assorted other ���isms and ���phobias.

As evidenced by ABC News��� Cokie Roberts this past weekend, many have simply gone ���full stupid��� with the concept.

In her appearance on ABC���s This Week on Sunday, Roberts actually said that when Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump publicly refers to Hillary Clinton as ���unhinged,��� his use of that word is code for the idea that a woman should not be elected President of the United States. As a matter of fact, Roberts is adamant that such is what Trump is saying; her exact words:

���About ���unhinged��� and ���she doesn���t look presidential,��� is totally code for we shouldn���t elect a woman. That is exactly what that is.���

I realize calling someone else ���stupid,��� which I did several sentences ago, is not the most charitable of things, but those who attempt to manipulate the national dialogue by disingenuously (Roberts knows darn well that such characterizations of Hillary���s demeanor are not code for anything beyond their most apparent meanings and references) playing race and gender cards are completely deserving of our ire.

 By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large