Reply #5: This is genuinely bizarre

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Let me see if I get this right... In the midst of a debate over a very doubtful piece of legislation, a Trojan horse meant to move SSI, the government and the US economy towards undisclosed goals with unidentified beneficiaries, the Bush administration's partisans declare that, since their researchers have found that "private accounts" don't evoke as much support as "personal accounts," the nation's media must change their terminology. It's all like al one of a high stakes poker game's players insisting on his right to stack the deck after he's seen the first couple cards -- it's obscene.
More obscene, however, are the kinds of assumptions and attitudes the administration's partisans' actions betray. If they really believe that the media should toe the line, they have, at least, odd notions of the role of the press in a democracy. Their apparent expectation that the people of this country will just set aside all they've heard before and just latch onto the debate's new terms betrays a contempt for their audience's ability to reason. And, what can I say about their disregard for the very real harm that privatization is likely to do to SSI's beneficiaries and the threat to our government's solvency that's likely to come with the borrowing that would be required to carry out their plan.