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Agonist (via Melissa and Amanda) reports that “comma” is a dog-whistle code word that Bush used to signal to the Fundies:
The phrase is: “Never put a period where God has put a comma.” Which is to say – it ain’t over yet, and God may well make it better. So Iraq’s bad, but if we trust in God, he’ll make it better.
Mark Liberman of Language Log, after a couple of funny riffs on “comma”, starts digging into the dog-whistle theory and uncovers the antcecedents here and here.
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