Unhinged - today's right-wing word

[yardwork]

In the space of minutes, at least a half dozen threads opened with the word "unhinged" used to discribe Hillary Clinton. This is a textbook example of Karl Rove attack politics at work. Clearly messages were sent from a central source instructing people to post "Hillary unhinged" on message boards this evening.

Anybody using the word "unhinged" in a post this evening is suspect.

[Maven]

1. The coordination between them is amazing isn't it?

[yardwork]

8. All it takes is one email from a central source, and voila!

It's just like flip-flop all over again, isn't it?

[butterfly77]

41. I have been noticing all of the new posters for the past few months.

[LadyVT]

2. Great idea! Let's post the right-wing word of the day!

I bet there will be no shortage of them in the next few weeks.

[yardwork]

9. Let's make fun of it. It appeared from nowhere and now it's everywhere.

Kind of like flip-flop once was.

[grasswire]

3. women have always been demonized thus

"Hysterical" is just another word for "unhinged."

[yardwork]

50. It's the simultaneity of the SAME word that caught my attention.

One word - unhinged - used over and over again in the space of minutes.

And now....gone. It came and went so quickly. Didn't have the staying power of flip flop.

[Flabbergasted]

84. No it's not actually...

It's been used to describe many a people. For example: Bush

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1267

[yardwork]

86. Good work! You've now connected Hillary to Bush with one word.

Your handlers will be pleased.

[Flabbergasted]

Oh they are! We've been trying to make the Bush/Clinton unhinged connection for months.

[yardwork]

92. I salute you!

[Flabbergasted]

99. BTW did you notice the "Obama Supporters are a cult" campaign we pulled off? That was great!

[yardwork]

104. I did notice that. I noticed all your successful campaigns.

I also notice that they're always used agaisnt Democrats, never Republicans.

[TheDebbieDee]

88. I remember that the word "unhinged" was frequently used

by the MSM to described any critic of *.

The word went out of use just after the '04 Election.

[yardwork]

91. And now it's back!!! Can flip flop be far behind?

[yourguide]

4. OH STOP!

YOU are becoming UNHINGED!

It is flipping amazing when another democrat disagrees or criticizes your candidate it seems the HRC supporters immediately throw out - you must be a republican, or something along those lines, yours is no different, you just inserted right wing.

So, it is you're either with Hillary or with the terrorists? Is that it?

[yardwork]

7. Don't you find it remarkable that the same word - unhinged - appeared all over like magic?

Does it remind you of "flip-flop?"

Did you ever watch "Outfoxed?"

[yourguide]

11. It appeared all over...

because it accurately described her tantrum.

[yardwork]

21. Unhinged? Is that the latest overused term? I must have missed it.

I hadn't noticed that every second person I meet is overusing the word "unhinged." I hadn't heard it much at all and then suddenly it's everywhere!

It's just like one of those internet rumors that spreads like wildfire! Like "flip flop."

[yourguide]

25. Oh lord...sure

ok. I cant even respond to this. let me know when you guys decide you dont need your tin foil hats any longer.

[Forkboy]

96. Great entertainment, isn't it?

[rodeodance]

23. "So, it is you're either with Hillary or with the terrorists? Is that it?"--Where do you get

off with this crap. shame on you.

[TwilightGardener]

5. If Obama had barked, "Shame on you, Hillary Clinton!", I would call him unhinged too.

It's just a nutty thing to say in a campaign, when he didn't attack her personally. It's not like those mailers had Monica Lewinsky's photo on them or something.

[yardwork]

13. But isn't it a remarkable coincidence that that one word suddenly appeared everywhere?

Unhinged. Suddenly it's everywhere in GD-P - like.....magic!

Now, if a bunch of negative whiny-butt threads had appeared using *various different* slurs on Hillary, I'd say that was just business as usual. But what an amazing coinkydink - everyone decided to choose that one single word - UNHINGED - all at the same time!

[TwilightGardener]

85. I might have used it first today, I don't know. It's a word I like to use for

someone making an unfounded, irrational attack.

[yardwork]

89. You use it all the time, in fact? Just though it up, all by yourself?

You didn't happen to receive a message or anything suggesting that Hillary is unhinged? Didn't hear somebody else use it? You just decided, all by yourself, to use the word unhinged tonight in asssociation with Hillary?

Remarkable.

Even more remarkable - why are some posters trying so damn hard to make this go away?

[TwilightGardener]

95. Well, I'm the Lee Harvey Oswald today--I acted alone, under no

"orders from the top", if that's what you're saying. I'm not in any way in communication with anyone else--and your insinuations are frankly sounding a little...unhinged.

[yardwork]

117. Maybe you just got swept up in the joy of the moment.

Like all the folks who started saying that they liked Kerry but they worried that he flip-flopped on the issues too much.

[TwilightGardener]

118. I wasn't here then. I'm not in on any organized smear campaign. I just thought

her presser today looked bad. It was ginned-up outrage, like bad acting. Icky. And a little unhinged-sounding.

[yardwork]

119. Oh. Were you a Republican in 2004?

[TwilightGardener]

121. Odd question. No. I voted for Kerry.

[yardwork]

125. You didn't notice the word "flip flop" being used over and over against Kerry?

You must watch even less TV than I do! Good for you. Unfortunately, it was all over the place.

[TwilightGardener]

128. Sure. I noticed it. That's politics.

[yardwork]

129. So is this.

[yourguide]

22. you forgot the bitter lines about his big rallies

and speeches. she is imploding.

[existentialist]

6. Does that mean

you too?

Just joking. Actually I find your post interesting, possible, and well worth monitoring.

[yardwork]

14. By all means monitor me as well. I might be a double secret triple agent!

I mean, who can you trust these days?

[existentialist]

20. as the saying went back in the 70s

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you."

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

10. Anybody using the word "the" in a post this evening is suspect.

Come right out and say it.

[totodeinhere]

30. LOL.

[tabatha]

12. I hope Obama's team takes this opportunity

to calmly produced an ad that features other's comments about Clinton's misleading flyers about Obama. There have been many in the past. They can also add factcheck.org's comments about how Obama's ads were not misleading. That would be all they have to say - use other's calm, reasoned words. And the difference would be obvious.

And how is it Karl Rove-like to use the word unhinged, when Clinton supporters use the word liar against Obama - and many more words, bad or worse.

[tyne]

16. She unhinged

herself, today, by acting anything but presidential.

[yardwork]

And that's the word that you just thought up to use to describe her?

All by yourself you decided to use the word "unhinged" at the same exact minute that a dozen other people decided to choose the exact same word to describe Hillary Clinton, and you all posted threads using that word all at the same time?

Not "crazy," not "unbalanced," not "insane" - but "unhinged." Just that word. Unhinged. Kind of like flip flop.

[yardwork]

18. Flip flop.

[TheDebbieDee]

100. "How is it Karl Rove-like to use the word unhinged

when Clinton supporters use the word liar against Obama - and many more words, bad or worse."

It's Rove-like because "unhinged" is not a word that is commonly heard. It's not the first word to come to mind to described someone that's acting crazy, it doesn't fall easily off the tongue.

"Divisive" and "polarizing" aren't words that are heard commonly either to describe disruptive behavior, unless they are used to describe Sen. Clinton by people that I usually peg as right-wing tools because it's mostly right-wing tools use those words.

But liar is a common word. It's the first word that comes to mind to describe someone who isn't telling the truth. And it falls easily from the tongue.

[bunnies]

15. ROFLMAO.

Me, I prefer ballistic.

[rodeodance]

17. and one of unhindged threads is using dead Iraqi bodies to diss Hillary!

[MadBadger]

19. Like Cult?

[bunnies]

26. snap! nt

[yardwork]

29. Did "cult" appear all at once in the space of minutes?

If so, I'd say yeah, exactly like that.

[ErnestoG]

It's been going for months now.

So where is your outrage?

[yardwork]

42. No, no, darling. I believe you misunderstand.

It's the simultaneity of the word that captured my interest. Not outrage. Interest.

"Unhinged" is not a word that is often used nowadays, and in the space of moments, at least a half-dozen threads (including your memorable entry) appeared on GD-P using the same exact word to describe Hillary Clinton.

Now, that's remarkable. Flip flop.

[ErnestoG]

102. On the contrary. The reason "it" came up is because "it" is accurate.

[yardwork]

107. You're really working overtime to make this go away.

[ErnestoG]

113. I'm calling for sanity. Which is falling on alot of deaf ears on HU today.

HU = HystericalUnderground

And no, that was not meant as a gender slam. I guess we're going to have to start using qualifiers with our adjectives now.

[Scurrilous]

36. LOL

:thumbsup:

[Bluerthanblue]

24. well Fuck 'carl rove'- nasty politics existed before him, and will live

on long after him.

How many times have people used less than 'gentle' words to describe ANY candidate?

I'm sorry- "unhinged" isn't particularly 'sexist' or 'rovian'-

I'm ashamed that Hillary used the 'carl rove playbook' in her outburst against a fellow Dem.-

But she is the one that will have to face herself in the mirror in the morning.

A very good quote :

"Temper is a weapon we hold by the blade"
(James M. Barrie)


peace~

[yardwork]

31. Do you genuinely miss my point?

It's not the attack - its the peculiar use of a single word - appearing simultaneously - that raised my interest.

[emilyg]

49. They're all missing your point

too busy spewing their nasty words.

[yardwork]

54. I suspect that they have been instructed to miss the point.

I also suspect that the word "unhinged" got called home when some of us noticed its overuse.

One minute, the whole of GD-P is full of the word unhinged. Ten minutes later - all gone.

[Bluerthanblue]

67. well, you might just as well ignore my

questions to you in my post below Yardwork-

I was responding to you the person I am - an individual- someone who comes here to learn, share, and connect. I haven't been "instructed" by anyone- I'm just a weary middle aged single mother who has lived through a bunch of crap in my life, and who is not going to be around all that much longer- I would like- I hope that before I die- this country in hands that are the best possible ones to lead us out of the hell-hole we are in. My children and grandchildren deserve to have better leadership than they've had for much of their lives.

You obviously belong to some kind of orginazation that tells you what you should and shouldn't say- I belong to myself. It's not very thrilling- and sometimes I make an ass out of myself- but I represent only me- and answer to me-

I wish you well-
peace~
blu

[yardwork]

71. Yes, it's clear that I'm the enemy.

[Bluerthanblue]

60. unhinged- unglued- hysterical- the single word holds no

power Yardwork-

Use any word you like- she lost her temper in a way that was completely uncalled for- And the "shame" garbage is something I find completely unacceptable. She isn't "Parent" to Obama- who the hell is she to 'shame on' anyone- will she address us this way when she becomes frustrated with us? Bill has used the same kind of garbage language as well. There is far more un-spoken meaning in the words "shame on you" than there is in "unhinged"-

What word would you find 'acceptable' for anyone to use to describe her response today???

please be as blunt as you need to be- I WANT to understand your point- but I don't.

thanks-

[yardwork]

62. Are you really missing the point?

Did you ever watch the documentary "Outfoxed?" It showed how Fox News used the word "flip flop" over and over and over again against John Kerry. Eventually, the word just got inextricably combined in people's minds with John Kerry.

It's an old marketing tool. The idea is to use a single word or image in association with an object over and over and over again so that people are almost brainwashed into automatically thinking of that word whenever they think of the object.

The same word "unhinged" appeared simultaneously in a half-dozen threads about Hillary Clinton here on GD-P this evening. Not a variety of words. One word - unhinged.

Are you asking me to believe that a half-dozen unrelated posters just thought up the same word at the same time to describe Hillary Clinton?

No way. Somebody told a bunch of people to use the word "unhinged" in association with Hillary Clinton tonight. Either that, or this is a really remarkable coincidence.

If all those threads had used *different* words to describe Hillary, I wouldn't have thought anything of it. But the same word? At the exact same time?

[Bluerthanblue]

75. yes, I was completely

honest in my lack of understanding.

I think I get what you are saying- but I have to say that I personally don't see the word "unhinged" in the same light you do- I'm willing to admit it may be because I don't support Hillary- maybe you are onto something and I just don't get it- but I really don't see it.

The words "cult" and "empty rhetoric" " All words, no supstance" could fit into the same mo that you are talking about- wouldn't you agree? I don't think that either 'side' is without those who wish to manipulate others.

I found the "shaming' meme- to be very inappropriate- (which I've said before)- And maybe I'm not able to get past that.

thanks for explaining it so I can understand-

I'm actually glad that you answered my question -

peace~

[yardwork]

78. If the words "cult" or "empty rhetoric" appeared simultaneously

then I would also suspect that they were planted.

I actually suspect that about "cult." While it didn't appear quite so obviously simultaneously as "unhinged," it did appear all over pretty quickly.

This is b.s. no matter which Democrat is doing it. It's unworthy of Democrats. Planting words and planned smear campaigns are the scum-behavior of scum. Democrats are better than that.

[Bright Eyes]

27. I could say the same thing about the "Obama cult" and "Obama-Kool Aid"

A few weeks ago.

[yardwork]

28. Does that make it right?

Are you all comfy with it as long as the opposition does it too?

[Bright Eyes]

35. No, it's the selective outrage.

[yardwork]

43. Hm? Flip flop.

[Bright Eyes]

53. Oh, do explain!

How am I a flip-flopper? :popcorn:

[yardwork]

56. Oh I was just musing about the old phrase "flip flop." Haven't heard that in awhile.

Isn't it....funny....how a single word can suddenly become all the rage and then poof it's all gone?

[Bright Eyes]

61. I think what happened was; someone here used the term "unhinged"

And (for whatever reason), other people liked it and began using it. Same thing with the "Obama Cult". Not some Republican infiltration, just people not thinking about the words they're using.

[yardwork]

65. I'll be that you think that nobody could have predicted that bin Laden would fly airplanes

into buildings, too.

I guess that 2000 was just a series of unexpectedly disappointing events so that the Supreme Court had to step in and sort it all out and all. And nobody could have predicted that the levees would fail. And I'm sure that those WMD are hiding somewhere in Iraq.

I don't believe in coincidences anymore. I saw flip flop with my own eyes. I saw unhinged tonight.

[Bright Eyes]

79. Where do you get I

"think that nobody could have predicted that bin Laden would fly airplanes into buildings"? I don't recall EVER saying that (unless you can head my thoughts in which case, GET OUT OF MY HEAD :P)

Seriously though. There's evidence that the Government knew about the bin Laden threat. There's evidence that Bush and Brown were told of the possibility the levees would break. And there's shitloads of evidence that the WMD story was purely concocted.

What evidence do you have to support the claim that "messages were sent from a central source instructing people to post "Hillary unhinged" on message boards this evening."?

[yardwork]

82. The evidence that a single word - Unhinged - appeared all over GD-P in the space of moments.

That's either a remarkable coincidence or evidence of a planned coordinated smear against Hillary. The fact that the word disappeared as soon as some of us pointed it out is an example of an even more remarkable coincidence, or further evidence that its use was planned, and when it backfired, the plan was cancelled.

[tabatha]

64. I think you are becomng unhinged about the word unhinged.

Maybe it was used a lot because it is not gender-specific like hysterical, emotional, shrill, etc.

[yardwork]

66. Maybe it was used a lot because somebody told people to use it a lot.

Just like Fox News was told to use flip flop a lot.

[tabatha]

70. dream away - i think you are delusional in your fact-less charges

[yardwork]

73. I think that it's interesting how hard you're working to make this go away.

[ErnestoG]

32. Tomorrow's right wing word: Anything that Hillary doesnt like!

Pathetic.

[jgraz]

34. BINGO

:thumbsup:

[Forkboy]

98. I'm afraid you've stumbled onto most candidates defense theory.

[jgraz]

33. My bad. I'll switch to "crazy-ass wack-job"

Or maybe "desperate, pathetic loser". Your call.

[ErnestoG]

37. HA! I'll go with either.

[yardwork]

47. But, as you may know, it's much more effective if the SAME word is used over and over.

flip flop.

The Dean Scream.

[jgraz]

87. It's almost like they xeroxed it

[yardwork]

93. LOL! It is, isn't it?

[ErnestoG]

103. Like "Obama cult", I see.

[yardwork]

108. Yes, exactly like that, now that you mention it. Always used against Democrats.

But that doesn't seem to bother you. Interesting.

[yardwork]

44. Will all your little friends start using those terms at the same time?

Maybe ya'll just think alike. Yeah, that's the ticket.

Flip flop.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

114. That's it! Why it's keyboard vernacular telepathy!

It's simply amazing that among the infinite variety of phrases and words available to describe one's personal view of another individual that particular word was universally seized upon, all within seconds.

Simply amazing.

[high density]

38. So we call her unhinged, then you call us right-wing

And this helps because ....?

If you're going to be outraged about supposed name calling, you should probably refrain from doing it yourself.

[butterfly77]

39. Correct!

[rodeodance]

40. the Unhinged one using dead Iraqi bodies to diss Clinton is not locked.!!

[RaleighNCDUer]

45. Caveat: The RW word of the day only applies

if used in reference to YOUR candidate.

[Bluebear]

46. Don't forget "hysterical" and "wifey" nt

[yardwork]

48. I think that those might have been individual deviations.

Those posters are probably being punished right now for deviating from the plan.

No creativity allowed. Use the word we give you, when we give it to you, dammit.

[Bluebear]

51. I believe you're right. Hysterical has been used, and wifey was the word planned for 2/27

It's so hard to keep track! :silly;

[loveangelc]

52. unhinged.

OMG PuLEEZE!!! Can you imagine what would happen if Obama was waving a mailer around yelling "shame on you, hillary!!"

[yardwork]

55. Tsk tsk. You're behind. Unhinged has been cancelled.

Call the office. There's a message waiting for you.

[Umbram]

57. It's an odd word. Makes me think roid-rage, not so much politics. (nt)

[yardwork]

58. Maybe someone on roids thought it up.

[Quixote1818]

59. Unhinged is sometimes used to describe Bush. nt

Just one example:

http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=535

[yardwork]

69. Good work! You've now connected Hillary to Bush in one word.

[Quixote1818]

109. It's a word that fits the moment as it fits many moments for different people

I wouldn't try to see too much more into it.

[yardwork]

110. Ah! It's nothing more than the word of the moment. Like flip flop!

Like cult. Like Dean Scream. Like "some people say."

Geez, I don't know why these "words of the moment" are always used against Democrats, never against Republicans.

[Quixote1818]

112. Bush has lots of "words for the moment" For example

Stupid, Dumb, Arrogant, Idiot etc. etc.

I am not sure why you think it only happens to Democrats. :shrug:

[ErnestoG]

105. Exactly. It is a gender blind term, no matter what the frantic shrieks to the opposite proclaim.

[rug]

63. A good test of unhinged is to play the video and then read the responses.

[tabatha]

68. maybe we should all start using unplugged

[yardwork]

72. Is that the new word?

[tabatha]

106. no, a joke.

[DemGa]

74. People need to realize this stuff comes from the top down

Obama is in reality, one corrupt guy. HE sets the tone for these Obama-nasties: the sexism, the passive aggressive attacks, the use of right-wing smears on a Democrat-- all of it.

Barack Obama himself is the source of the divisiveness.

[yardwork]

76. I don't want to believe that, because I think he's going to be our nominee.

However, I will absolutely call b.s. when I see it, and I saw it tonight. I hope that Obama wasn't behind it.

[yourguide]

77. Take off your tinfoil hat please.

[yardwork]

80. No.

[yourguide]

97. If it makes you feel any better

I have my own tinfoil hats but I dont think the word "unhinged" warrants one.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

81. It's a perfectly good word... even Michelle Malikin uses it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4734503

[yardwork]

83. Oh verrrrrrry interesting.

[bigtree]

90. It looks like a typical, organized campaign (from Obama or republicans, I can't tell)

. . . despicable tactic. The only remedy is for Hillary's campaign to stay resolute and keep fighting forward.

[yardwork]

94. I believe it's the Republicans. I don't think Obama would stoop so low.

It is and has been a Republican tactic for many years, and the link to Michelle Malkin further suggests that this is the same swift-boating group we've heard before.

[greguganus]

101. Pssst...Operation Unhinged is now officially over.

Please monitor your email accounts closely for the next attack word.
That is all.


:tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat: :tinfoilhat:

[yardwork]

111. I thought it was over, too, but some of them don't want to let it die.

[maximusveritas]

115. You are aware that this makes you a suspect also, don't you?

That's right, hands against the wall.

[yardwork]

116. Absolutely! In fact, it's probably outed me for good.

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

120. Hey yardwork..You're famous!

:applause:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4734503

[yardwork]

122. I know! I'm just totally psyched!

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

124. You should be! You're totally on the Greatest!

:toast:

[yardwork]

127. I don't know how it happened. My threads always sink like stones.

I had to kick this one a million times to keep it afloat! lol!

[workinclasszero]

123. Anybody using the word "unhinged" in a post this evening is suspect.

Unhinged, unhinged, unhinged!

Are you going to turn me into the thought police now??:rofl:

Censorship much?:eyes:

[yardwork]

126. No, but I could try to turn you into a newt, if you like.