Monday, November 28, 2005

Carefully Chosen Words

This practice of catch and release has been the government's policy for decades. It is an unwise policy and we're going to end it. (Applause.) To help end catch and release, we need to increase the capacity in our detention facilities.

It wasn't an ad-lib, inadvertantly revealing the contempt il Ducetto feels for those not blessed by God, as he was, with a birth on third base. It's in the White House text of his comments. It's a deliberate appeal to their racists base. In a previous century politicians employed such dehumanizing rhetoric. The reasons why people talk like this are clear. We know the consequences of such speech. We do not wait for the Republicans to denounce this language with bated breath.