Biden's "coded message"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Bet you didn't know Joe Biden was talking in "code" when he used the word
"malarkey" last night:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/loaded-message-behind-biden-malarkey-172910935--election.html

Another "dog whistle" detectable only by the initiated?

Should we others be turned off by his hifalutin use of an obscure and
arcane, even pointy-headed, dictionary term?

JL

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