Matt Welstein
Digital Fellow
Obama for America
August 2012 November 2012 (4 months)Greater Los Angeles Area
Are you kidding me? So when Palin uses the idiomatic phrase “called off the dogs” (verb - ease up on after inflicting punishment) then the left uses this to claim she was referring to the subject group (in this case, thought to be BLM, although it really wasn’t clear who she meant) as dogs? Using that logic, I would need to stop reading Shakespeare, since the bard apparently thinks people in the military are dogs. After all, in Julius Ceaser he did write “Cry Havoc!, and let slip the dogs of war.
OK conservatives, if you want to play it safe, then I guess here are some more dog idioms you’ll need to avoid, so that the left doesn’t get to distort what you are saying. And that’s just on dogs - there would be so many others - maybe too many to remember. Maybe it’s safer if conservatives just say nothing. And actually, I guess that’s the whole point, since it’s what the left is trying to accomplish with its latest disingenuous smear on Palin.
Call off the dogs
Dogs of War
Meaner than a junkyard dog
Barking up the wrong tree
Throw me a bone
Lucky dog
Every dog has its day
Works like a dog
Go to the dogs
You cant teach an old dog new tricks
Let sleeping dogs lie
Put the dog off the scent
In the doghouse
Walking with his tail between his legs
The tail is wagging the dog
Top dog