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ck4829

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8. Oh yes, it's incredibly pervasive among the right wing

Sat Apr 29, 2017, 10:24 AM

Apr 2017

Why make things better for the people when you can just declare the things you do to be good and successful and the things the other side (Democrats and the left) does to be wasteful, failures, and things the people don't really need?

Even my signature line I picked for today this morning is an example of framing, in this case, a reference to the fact that the right called Obama a "secret Muslim" yet nobody revisits the fact that the drug czar Reagan had thought decapitating drug users like in Saudi Arabia is moral was something a "secret Muslim" would say.

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In 2007 Mitt Romney was the first politician to use the term "Obamacare" in a pejorative fashion, [View all] still_one Apr 2017 OP

I'm amazed at how many US "mainstream" news outlets give "equal time" to climate change deniers... NurseJackie Apr 2017 #1

Yup. NYTimes just hired climate change denier Bret Stephens . You called it right Jackie still_one Apr 2017 #5

The most amazing thing that was missed by the Democratic Party OnDoutside Apr 2017 #2

The ignorance of the public really amaze me still_one Apr 2017 #6

The other thing is that Republicans recognized their audience OnDoutside Apr 2017 #3

It's framing. Recognize it, reclaim the frames, and create your own ck4829 Apr 2017 #4

Wow, that is exactly it still_one Apr 2017 #7

Oh yes, it's incredibly pervasive among the right wing ck4829 Apr 2017 #8