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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:25 AM
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A "framing" trick I discovered...
I was reading in the paper this morning about how all of the Senate Republicans voted for the noticeably un-American Alberto Gonzales for Attorney General, with most Democrats opposed. Then I read about how no Democrats favor the president's ridiculous, un-American Social Security plans - only Republicans. This pattern repeats in other stories - Democrats want to eliminate voter fraud, Republicans want to let it lie, etc. etc.

HERE'S MY DISCOVERY. If you read these articles to yourself, substituting "American" for "Democrat", it suddenly all starts to make more sense. You end up with sentences like these from this morning's Columbus Dispatch:

"Americans and a few key Republicans warned that personal accounts would push budget deficits to dangerous heights..."

"Six Americans joined the Senate's Republican majority in supporting President Bush's choice to head the Justice Department."


See what I mean? Talk about framing!
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DoYouEverWonder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 08:31 AM
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1. Maybe we should rename
the Democratic Party the American Party. That will really screw the MSM.

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DELUSIONAL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-04-05 09:12 AM
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2. I like the sound of that -- you may be on to something!
Since the GOPigs are obviously out to kill the Democratic party -- and they remove the "ic" and thus have managed to rename the party as the "democrat" party.

So -- just start called the opposition party -- the American Party.

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