After 'victory for white life' comment, GOP campaign says rep. misread

[Jilly_in_VA]

Rep. Mary Miller, R-Ill., said at an Illinois Trump rally Saturday that the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was a "historic victory for white life."

"President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday," Miller said.

A spokesperson for Miller told The Associated Press the line was a "mix up of words."

"You can clearly see in the video ... she's looking at her papers and looking at her speech," Isaiah Wartman, the spokesperson, told the AP.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/gop-rep-miller-speaking-alongside-trump-calls-scotus/story?id=85726659

Sure, honey, sure. Whatever.

[Solly Mack]

1. Right. Sure. That's what happened.

She looked at her speech, saw what was written, or thought she did, and said it anyway. Because the sentence made sense to her and she had no problem saying it.

Someone who didn't agree with the sentiment would have not said it.

So, let's say for one second, she did misread - she still read it. Instead of refusing to say it, or objecting to it, she said it.

Because she had no problem with what she was saying.

But the fact is, she read it just as it was written, and she had to have read it prior to actually taking the stage. So she said exactly what she meant.

[LoisB]

6. Exactly.

[Effete Snob]

22. So why is she denying that was her intent?

So, correct me if I’m wrong.

When intended to say “white life”, did she also plan to deny that was her intent after she said it?

In other words, why is she trying to say that’s not what she meant to say, if it was what she meant to say. Why not just bask in the publicity for having said it?

[yardwork]

24. Because it's a dog whistle to her base.

It's typical Republican tactics. Say what you really mean to your base, then apologize to the libs while smirking and winking at your base.

[Effete Snob]

25. I'm not sure you grasp the meaning of "dog whistle"

The idea of a “dog whistle” is that it emits a signal above the frequency range of humans, but still within the range of what dogs can hear.

In other words a “dog whistle” is something that is heard by the intended audience, but NOT HEARD by the audience for whom it was not intended.

Saying something in plain speech, instead of using trigger phrases from the “weird email mill” or other references known to the intended audience, and then denying having intended to say those words, is not a “dog whistle”.

[yardwork]

37. Looks like we'll have to disagree on this.

To me, this is classic dog whistle behavior.

[Effete Snob]

41. Merriam Webster

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/dog-whistle-political-meaning

Yet there's another dog whistle we've been hearing about lately: a coded message communicated through words or phrases commonly understood by a particular group of people, but not by others.

The whole point of a "dog whistle" is that it is not heard by others.

[yardwork]

43. But, when somebody says they didn't mean to say the words...

But their base knows they absolutely meant to say those exact words, that is a type of dog whistle. The "hidden in plain sight" type.

[Solly Mack]

40. Why do they always claim they misspoke after they say something hateful?

You think it is because they actually did misspeak? I don't believe her. You might. We disagree.

Why did Ron Johnson deny his racist comments about BLM were not racist?

And he's not the only one to do it.

They do it because they enjoy saying things like that and then denying it their intent. They get to say it out loud and then claim innocence.

[malaise]

31. Of course

[Solly Mack]

42. She of "Hitler was right about one thing"/"Our country must be guided by our Judeo-Christian

faith" comments didn't misspeak, she says exactly what she means and then later claims other people twisted her words.

[Aristus]

2. Was it supposed to be 'wha people'?

Like Foamy Santorum’s ‘blah people’?

[Ilsa]

13. Wypeepo? How is that spelled again? Wipeepoe? 😄 nt

[Celerity]

19. wypipo. nt

[BumRushDaShow]

30. Frothy also slid the "n-word" in a different appearance

"the government 'nigg-uhh-uhh'" @ 0.11"

That's also why Bob Casey Jr., is in that seat.

[CentralMass]

3. If it walks like duck.

[LoisB]

4. I have this fabulous beach front property in Kansas which is for sale...anyone interested?

That is one of the lamest excuses I have ever heard. Why would the word "white" have been in her speech at all?

[dalton99a]

5. Maybe somebody hacked her microphone

because the Illinois Nazi would never use such language

[LoisB]

8. That excuse would have made more sense than the one her spokesperson gave.

[LenaBaby61]

7. She said what she said .....

and meant EVERY white, reich-winged word of it

[ProudMNDemocrat]

9. Video does NOT lie!

This woman indeed said "white life".

[Novara]

10. These people are so goddamned stupid

White women will more likely have the means to get abortions. Black women and immigrant women don't. This isn't a victory for white people if it floods the country with unwanted babies of color.

[TheRickles]

36. Agreed, and that's why I'm willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on this one.

I know these folks often talk nonsense, but it really does look to me like an inadvertent stumble over a point that I've never heard a MAGAt or anti-abortionist make.

Bigger fish await frying, IMO.

[Vogon_Glory]

11. Mary, sweetie, once it's on tape and on the net, it's out there FOREVER

That is a lesson Democrats have learned through decades of experience. There is no special pitty-pat exemption for Republicans and “Conservatives” (reactionaries). Your words will be remembered for decades to come.

Isn’t that too gosh-darn bad?

[keithbvadu2]

29. Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....

Mission accomplished: they got the message out to their base....

Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...

Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter

Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[EYESORE 9001]

12. How can that phrase be whitewashed? Pun intended or not.

I can’t see any way to make that phrase acceptable to anyone but white supremacists.

[Vogon_Glory]

16. She probably thinks she can put white-out on reporters' notes.

Time and technology has moved on. Her words will remain around her neck for a lifetime.

And her plans to move on to bigger and better things in Illinois have probably been tanked. She might have to move to an overwhelmingly white-majority state if she plans to move on up. Maybe she should move to Iowa or North Dakota if she wants to run for Senator.

You know, someplace where the population is at least 88 percent white.

[sl8]

14. Which is why she immediately corrected herself, right? Right? nt

[JHB]

15. Bullshit. It may not have been on the paper, but it was in her head

That's not a phrase that just rolls off the tongue without pause unless one has had enough practice to be comfortable with it.

[haele]

17. If it was a mix-up, what happened to the word "to "?

White life is not an ooppsie for saying "Right To Life".
When you or anyone else says say it, the vocal stress is always on the "to" in that phrasing.
And it's not something to look down at your notes to say.
Lady talks about Hitler a lot. I'm guessing "White Life" comes out of her mouth naturally when she's in full screed, probably a lot more naturally than "right to life".

Haele

[onecaliberal]

18. If it was misread, please tell us what it should have said? Blah people? Yeah we know.

[Wounded Bear]

20. She obviously didn't "misread" the crowd of white nationalist assholes she was speaking to.

[tanyev]

21. Fraudian slip.

[TigressDem]

23. "Right to Life" IS "Right to WHITE Life" because once you're out of the womb, you're on your own.

And they don't care about any babies that aren't growing up into Reich Wing weapons of carnage and destruction.

[ecstatic]

26. They do that on purpose. Nt

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

27. I guess she, and others like her,

don't think persons not white ever get abortions.

[greatauntoftriplets]

28. Reminds me of the time that Chicago mayor Richie Daley was running for election...

and gave a speech in which he said "You want a white mayor". Afterwards, he insisted that he had said "you want a wet mayor", which made absolutely no sense.

Mary Miller, who has actually quoted Hitler, is a terrible person.

[malthaussen]

32. And who can forget "The police are here to create disorder?" n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

35. That was his father, Richard J.

Yeah, racism ran in that family.

[Efilroft Sul]

33. Now this sounds like a white lie.

[GB_RN]

34. Racist Says What?

I hate every single one of these assholes...and they can't give up their oxygen habit soon enough.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Nope

Link to tweet

[UTUSN]

39. K&R