Media Stop Using "Exotic" as a code word for "Not American Enough"
This Week With Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
posted @ Daily Kos I blasted Cokie Roberts in yesterday's weekly, "This Week With Barack Obama" because she deserved it. She put that red-herring, smoking gun word usage out that Obama is vacationing in some "exotic" place, called Hawaii and that he needs to go to Myrtle Beach, which implies "more American". I have held my tongue on the media using this word exotic, coding for "Obama is not
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