Did you notice the dog whistle in the McCain concession last night?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

The bit where McCain blamed himself, and the crowd chanted "no!"

That's from the 1993 film Gettysburg. Robert E. Lee apologizing to his troops.

[SunsetDreams]

1. Dog whistle as in how?

I don't see it that way. What am I missing?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Dog whistle as in ran a racist campaign...

and underhandedly compared himself to Robert E. Lee to his racist loyalists.

[SunsetDreams]

3. I realize parts of his campaign that he ran was racist IMO, but

I don't see his concession speech or any part of it as being so.

I admire him for blaming himself, and not blaming others. Ultimately the blame rests with him, if he couldn't run his campaign, he had no business running the country. I don't see that as a dog whistle.

[mamalone]

5. I agree with you completely...

I think his taking the blame was perhaps the best part of a very gracious speech.

[Imperialism Inc.]

4. I don't see it that way. While I have disagreed with

McCain on many policy points I don't think he was the one behind the decision to go as negative as they did. He was pushed in to that by students of Rove. I don't think he is a racist and I think he tried several times to keep the more neanderthal of his supporters quiet during his concession.

[Uzybone]

6. You are hypersensitive

You think the GOP based knows anything about Gettysburg?

I agree he ran a racist campaign, but that part of the speech was no dog whistle.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I bet they love that movie.

[nxylas]

8. Nah, no Republican knows anything about the War of Northern Aggression

:sarcasm:

[PresidentObama]

9. His speech was gracious. Get over yourself n/t

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

10. His speech was lipstick on a pig.

He was a con artist, bilking just a few more gullible people. He was Jimmy Swaggart crying and begging for forgiveness.

[bookman]

11. Check out Marty Kaplan on the subject

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marty-kaplan/let-bygones-not-be-bygone_b_141467.html

[Boo Boo]

12. Wouldn't surprise me if he "borrowed" from that

McCain has been accused of plagiarizing the "cross in the dirt" story from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. Incorporating something he saw in a movie into his speech would be consistent with that. He has apparently embellished his biography with events that happened to others. He claims his airplane was struck by a missile aboard the USS Forrestal when it was actually the plane next to him. Next he'll be telling us he flew into Kosovo under sniper fire.

I kind of doubt he was trying to blow the racist dog whistle; he's just not a very intellectual or eloquent man on his own. Borrowing an idea from a movie doesn't seem like much of an offense to me. Of course it would be better if one could actually quote, accurately, with attribution, Robert E. Lee. You know, like, "My friends, as Robert E. Lee said at Little Big Horn, 'Do not go gentle into that good night...' and um... uh... don't get fooled again!"