{"id":2866,"date":"2004-10-11T00:26:16","date_gmt":"2004-10-11T14:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/11\/bushs-dred-scott-reference\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:44:34","slug":"bushs-dred-scott-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/10\/11\/bushs-dred-scott-reference\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Dred Scott reference"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10079,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/10\\\/9\\\/16460\\\/5820&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20251114172909\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/story\\\/2004\\\/10\\\/9\\\/16460\\\/5820&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:54:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:54:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10080,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?q=%22dred%20scott%22%20abortion&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.google.com\\\/search?q=%22dred%20scott%22%20abortion&amp;gws_rd=ssl&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10081,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/abortion.netfirms.com\\\/whoseside.htm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20230601192212\\\/http:\\\/\\\/abortion.netfirms.com\\\/whoseside.htm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:54:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:467}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 00:54:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:467},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:10082,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\\\/eyv\\\/2004\\\/10\\\/dred_scott_is_c.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Remember when Bush made the odd reference to the Dred Scott case during his answer to what kind of Supreme Court justice he&#8217;d appoint in the second debate? It didn&#8217;t seem to make a lot of sense, and had a lot of people confused. Looks like one of the diarists on Daily Kos may have stumbled upon the answer &#8212; it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2004\/10\/9\/16460\/5820\" title=\"Dred Scott, Explained: It's About Abortion\">right-wing code for abortion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  The &#8220;Dred Scott&#8221; reference by Bush sent everyone at Atrios and other blog sites scrambling to historical tomes to figure out what on Earth Mr.\u00a0Bush could mean, short of saying that he wouldn&#8217;t appoint pro-slavery judges.<\/p>\n<p>  Really, we should have just done a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22dred%20scott%22%20abortion\" title=\"Google 'dred scott abortion'\">damn google search on the Internets<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>  Because it&#8217;s all there, plain as day. The Dred Scott reference is code language for abortion rights. Here&#8217;s how one anti-choice site describes it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    <a href=\"http:\/\/abortion.netfirms.com\/whoseside.htm\" title=\"Whose Side are You On?\">Stephen Douglas didn&#8217;t see Dred Scott as a person with rights because he was black; now Al Gore doesn&#8217;t see these children as people with rights because they are unborn.<\/a>\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>  &#91;&#8230;&#93;<\/p>\n<p>  In short:<\/p>\n<p>  <strong>When Bush made reference to &#8220;Dred Scott&#8221; he was assuring his anti-choice constituents that he would indeed only appoint Supreme Court justices who would remove abortion rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>  It&#8217;s unmistakable, once you know the code words. There&#8217;s no other reason he said it, that damned fundamentalist fascist.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/brokengoalie.typepad.com\/eyv\/2004\/10\/dred_scott_is_c.html\" title=\"Dred Scott is Code for Abortion Rights\">Lane<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DChaykin, Maury\/Jarmusch, Jim\/Stanton, Harry Dean%2526albumTerm=Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas%2526songTerm=Breakdown on Paradise Boulevard%26partnerId%3D30\">Breakdown on Paradise Boulevard<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DChaykin, Maury\/Jarmusch, Jim\/Stanton, Harry Dean%26partnerId%3D30\">Chaykin, Maury\/Jarmusch, Jim\/Stanton, Harry Dean<\/a> from the album <em><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/stat?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941&amp;type=3&amp;subid=0&amp;tmpid=1826&amp;RD_PARM1=itms%253A%252F%252Fphobos.apple.com%252FWebObjects%252FMZSearch.woa%252Fwa%252Fcom.apple.jingle.search.DirectAction%252FadvancedSearchResults%253FartistTerm%253DChaykin, Maury\/Jarmusch, Jim\/Stanton, Harry Dean%2526albumTerm=Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas%26partnerId%3D30\">Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/a><\/em> (1995, 7:41).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when Bush made the odd reference to the Dred Scott case during his answer to what kind of Supreme Court justice he&#8217;d appoint in the second debate? It didn&#8217;t seem to make a lot of sense, and had a lot of people confused. Looks like one of the diarists on Daily Kos may have stumbled upon the answer &mdash; it&#8217;s right-wing code for abortion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-2866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}