more on Name Calling in the Martin-Tate Statement on the AT&T-BellSouth Merger

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Glenn Fleishman <glenn () glennf com>
Date: January 4, 2007 2:40:31 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Subject: Re: [IP] Name Calling in the Martin-Tate Statement on the  
AT&T-BellSouth Merger

Rob Frieden <rmf5 () psu edu> on 1/4/07 at 2:26 PM wrote:

> (quoting Chairman Martin):
>          Importantly, however, while the Democrat Commissioners may

Even more interesting, that's a form of insult. They are Democrats or  
Democratic Party appointnees, but calling them Democrat Commissioners  
instead of Democratic Commissioners is a form of coded insult:

<http://mediamatters.org/items/200608160005>

And in the New Yorker:

<http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/060807ta_talk_hertzberg>

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