Women of Cover.

[Laurence Horn]

At 8:02 PM -0500 10/11/01, Mark Odegard wrote:
>Bush said 'women of cover' twice in his press conference. The first time, I
>thought he had mangled 'women of color'. The second time, I started
>thinking, and speculated he was talking about veiled Muslim women. CNN later
>suggested this was indeed the case.
>
I'm quite impressed (with whoever suggested the expression to him).
But is 'women of cover' a veiled insult?

larry