Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Howard Kurtz, Dec.9, 2010;
Luntz, who counseled the GOP on how to sell the 1994 Contract With America, told the Fox News host to stop using President Obama’s preferred term for a key provision.
“If you call it a public option, the American people are split,” he explained. “If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it.”
“A great point,” Hannity declared. “And from now on, I’m going to call it the government option, because that’s what it is.”
Columbia Journalism Review, Dec. 10, 2010;
Now we learn that Frank Luntz, the Republican wordsmith extraordinaire, was at work behind the scenes to craft the language that public plan opponents could exploit.
To lefties, Fox News is behind the scenes.
Mike McCormick
[………To lefties, Fox News is behind the scenes……]
Yeah and they call themselves progressives too…
So????
No idea when they will decipher Obozospeak’s use of the phrase “Tax Cut” to describe a non tax hike.
Wordsmithing is a two way street.
Dems hate it when anybody does that focus group stuff better than they do. Nobody likes getting stuck with their own knife.
As a commenter at the second link notes, “public option” was Dem focus-grouped out the wazoo before being spoon-fed to the drooling MSM.
Added bonus of “government takeover” is that unlike “public option” its not a lie.
From the same people who brought us “contribute and invest” as euphemisms for “tax and spend.”
The same people who say “public option” or “single payer” instead of “socialized health care.”
The same people who refer to “racial quotas” and “racially-based preferential treatment” as “affirmative action” or “equal opportunity.”
The same people refer to a monolith of liberal ideas and identities as “diversity.”
The same people who say “progressive” instead of “socialist” or “communist.”
Leftists are the masters of not saying what they really mean. Conservatives gain traction precisely by calling a spade a spade.
Hey liberals: 1984 was a warning from George Orwell, not an instruction manual.
Nothing is new. In 1771, that great lover of liberty, John Wilkes, and a number of printers challenged the law that prohibited the reporting of Parliamentary debates and speeches, kept secret because those in power argued that the information was too sensitive and would disrupt the life of the country if made public….
…a brave maverick who was constantly moving house – and sometimes country – to avoid arrest; whose epic sexual adventures had been used by the authorities as a means of entrapping and imprisoning him. The London mob came out in his favou…r and, supplemented by shopkeepers and members of the gentry on horseback, finally persuaded the establishment of the time to accept that publication was inevitable. And the kingdom did not fall.
It’s a conspiracy – a right wing conspiracy!