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Beware the Frame: GOP Wastes No Time in Embracing Frank Luntz’s Vapid ‘Patient-Doctor’ Health Care Rhetoric | Health and Wellness | AlterNet
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Luntz says to avoid projecting a policy plan and instead focus on language that “captures not just what Americans want to see but exactly what they want to hear.”
McCain camp defends Palin in wardrobe flap | Politics | Reuters
Classic Red Herring: We screwed up, but the media is the real problem.
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Wallace said the media storm about Palin's wardrobe was a terrible disservice to her and said there seemed to be a "double-standard for women in politics."
"That any aspect of her shoes, clothes or appearance has become a distraction is a terrible commentary on the state of the media and politics. Let's get on with our great debate about the best direction for the country in these challenging times for our economy and our nation's security," she said.
Jeffrey Feldman: Drudge Puts Dangerous Spin on Mugging, Implies Violence Targeting McCain Volunteers
A GREAT ARTICLE FOR CLASSROOM USE about HOW HEADLINES, FRAMES, AND OMISSIONS OF FACTS CAN CHANGE A NEWS STORY.
This is dangerous stuff.
McCain: Obama a job-killing socialist - INQUIRER.net, Philippine News for Filipinos
Remember how Bush beat Kerry by seizing on Kerry's use of the word "global" in the last debate? And how he distorted Kerry's use of the word - he meant it in the sense of "systematic" or "nuanced" - by claiming Kerry meant he wouldn't lead against the will of "global" opinion?
I remember how aghast I was to see this obvious distortion grow legs in the last weeks of the election, when anybody with a vocabulary and the ability to read Kerry's sentence including the word could see that wasn't his meaning. And I remember how disappointed I was that the media didn't correct this obvious ploy at all.
Below, we see McCain doing the same thing with Obama's comment that he wants to "spread the wealth around" by increasing taxes on the over a quarter million dollars a year set, so the other roughly 95 percent of us wouldn't carry as much of the tax burden.
McCain and ex-Bush campaigner Rick Davis (JM's manager) have seized on it in a full-court press to label Obama a "Socialist."
It's silly, and would be laughable, if only it weren't being repeated in headlines that don't laugh with us. Here we go again.
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"After months of campaign trail eloquence... we finally learned what Senator Obama's economic goal is. As he told Joe, he wants to 'spread the wealth around," McCain told a boisterous crowd gathered on a high school football field in Belton, Missouri.
"If I'm elected president, I won't raise taxes on anyone, especially small businesses. Senator Obama will and that will force them to cut jobs."
Palin Breaks With McCain On Gay Marriage Ban - From The Road
"Palindrone: a sentence that makes no more sense read forward than it does when read backwards." -- LA Times last month.
Here's another zinger:
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“I am, in my own, state, I have voted along with the vast majority of Alaskans who had the opportunity to vote to amend our Constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman. I wish on a federal level that that's where we would go because I don't support gay marriage,” Palin said.
“I'm not going to be out there judging individuals, sitting in a seat of judgment telling what they can and can't do, should and should not do, but I certainly can express my own opinion here and take actions that I believe would be best for traditional marriage and that's casting my votes and speaking up for traditional marriage that, that instrument that it's the foundation of our society is that strong family and that's based on that traditional definition of marriage, so I do support that.” -
Add Sticky NoteWhen the federal marriage amendment was being debated in 2004, John McCain broke from his party’s leadership and took to the Senate floor to denounce it in notably stark language.
"The constitutional amendment we're debating today strikes me as antithetical in every way to the core philosophy of Republicans," McCain said. "It usurps from the states a fundamental authority they have always possessed and imposes a federal remedy for a problem that most states do not believe confronts them."- McCain's syntax, if nothing else, remains respectable. - on 2008-10-21
Conservatives fearful as election draws near | Politics | Reuters
This is an example of sloppy language. Many "Conservatives" have quit the Republican Party because the New Bush Republicans are no longer "Conservative" in the classic sense.
So this headline is misleading. It should read, "Bush Republicans fearful as election draws near" - because those are the "base" that McCain/Palin has allowed their former Bush campaign manager to cater to.
Read yesterday's post for several examples of REAL conservatives - philosophical ones, not brand name ones - who have jumped ship on McCain for _betraying_ Conservatism.
And read today's for conservative icon Colin Powell's similar move.
Who is an elitist? - Salt Lake Tribune
Great point about the rhetoric of the campaign. Speech and debate (and rhetoric) teachers take note.
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I was listening to talk radio the other day. Some of the conservative hosts were referring to Sen. Barack Obama by his full given name Barack Hussein Obama, an obvious attempt to frighten voters. As Sen. John McCain continues to fall in the polls, conservatives are getting desperate.
Why not refer to McCain in the same way? John Sydney McCain III - so rich he doesn't know if he has seven or eight houses or 13 or 14 vehicles!
Those on the right have a lot of guts calling Obama an elitist.
PC Among the Docs - New English Review
- Nice DEFINITION AS RHET STRATEGY in paragraph 2. - cburell on 2006-10-03
Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches - Yahoo! News
- The rhetoric of deceit - cburell on 2006-10-03
Fred Halliday on "International intellectuals": excellent
- the vocation of an internationalist intellectual: beyond supporting human rights in these countries, actually to try and promote informed discussion, which may feed into public debate and into education and so forth. - cburell on 2006-10-03
SR-Cafferty-Bush-Comma.mov (video/quicktime Object)
- rips Bush's remark that "Iraq will be just a comma in the history books." - cburell on 2006-10-03
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