Skimming the scum....
On Meet the Press, Russert again carried the water for the R's and Dean failed to pick up on it. One of the main mantras of the framing techniques used so frequently was inserted again, and perhaps Dean has heard it too often to respond effectively. Did you catch it?
Russert asserted that raising the cap on Social Security amounts subject to taxation would be raising taxes. NOT SO. But this bait has been so overused by the R's that it goes unchallenged. Well here is why it must be challenged.
For years the first dollar up to the cap has been taxed. What privilege is there for the upper earners that makes them immune to the same treatment that the workers making wages below that amount are subjected to? Who can believe that this is just? Doesn't this soak the poor in favor of the rich, where would the account balance be now if this discrimination had not been allowed to occur all these years?
Are you going to believe that it is more burdensome for those earning 90,000 and on up than it is for a worker with a family or without for that matter and trying to survive on earnings from zero to 90,000, meet the living expenses prevalent today. What about the 15,000 to 30,000 category? Probably they are so tied down trying to find moonlighting jobs in order to keep food on the table and gas in the car so they can get to a job if they have a regular one, that they can't take time to be politically active and get this injustice addressed.
This same tactic used also when it is pointed out that rolling back the tax cuts for the wealthy would alleviate the fiscal Social Security shortfall in the future thirty-five years down the road. The R's again misapply the "raising taxes" mantra again. It is a major trigger on their knee jerk version of manipulation.
Enough! Alert all your representatives and your political organization officers to challenge this falsehood whenever they can, if it comes up or bring it up and cite the times you've heard them apply this disinformation technique. Don't allow them to manipulate that trigger.
Another phrasing that needs to be illuminated as manipulative is "obstructionist". Now aren't we weary of that one. It is applied to anyone that dares dissent during this extreme administration. Exercising the right of dissent and the rights of a minority is not obstructionist and that label needs to be opposed. But again the pejorative word is selected over and over in the R language assault.
This was applied this morning on the This Week news show with two senators as guests, Allen and Leiberman. The host again carried the water by using the mantra word, is this accidental or not? One must wonder.
Stephanopoulus fails to see that this is a specific and particular time in history and there are circumstances that were not in the mix at other historical periods. Therefore to imply that a position taken in past history should be taken again when the circumstances are very much changed, is like ignoring events that have taken place, a curious position for a journalist.
Focusing on another item brought up for discussion, the Newsweek flap - it was amusing to hear the commentary on this subject. George Will was outclassed by Zakaria, who works on Newsweek and K. vandenHoevel who is I believe on the staff of Nation magazine. She remarked that if it was correct to demand retraction by Newsweek based on their use of unreliable sources, then it would be consistent if Bush would retract the War on Iraq, since that was based on unreliable sources. Touche' Ms vandenHoevel.
Then on Face the Nation, you could have learned why you cannot believe this administration. Currently they have the First Lady out there trying to write revisionist history. I think Laura should let Georgie grow up and she could set a better example by not having been submissive in the past while he was misleading the nation. Let him handle his own dirty laundry, don't pick up after him.
Blitzer had Perle and General Clark as guests and since I simply can no longer abide Perle, I took a morning nap, after all I awake and start listening to C-Span's Washington Journal at 4 a.m. our time in the Mountain Standard Zone.
Stay vigilant, challenge misframing language coding.
graysmoke
Russert asserted that raising the cap on Social Security amounts subject to taxation would be raising taxes. NOT SO. But this bait has been so overused by the R's that it goes unchallenged. Well here is why it must be challenged.
For years the first dollar up to the cap has been taxed. What privilege is there for the upper earners that makes them immune to the same treatment that the workers making wages below that amount are subjected to? Who can believe that this is just? Doesn't this soak the poor in favor of the rich, where would the account balance be now if this discrimination had not been allowed to occur all these years?
Are you going to believe that it is more burdensome for those earning 90,000 and on up than it is for a worker with a family or without for that matter and trying to survive on earnings from zero to 90,000, meet the living expenses prevalent today. What about the 15,000 to 30,000 category? Probably they are so tied down trying to find moonlighting jobs in order to keep food on the table and gas in the car so they can get to a job if they have a regular one, that they can't take time to be politically active and get this injustice addressed.
This same tactic used also when it is pointed out that rolling back the tax cuts for the wealthy would alleviate the fiscal Social Security shortfall in the future thirty-five years down the road. The R's again misapply the "raising taxes" mantra again. It is a major trigger on their knee jerk version of manipulation.
Enough! Alert all your representatives and your political organization officers to challenge this falsehood whenever they can, if it comes up or bring it up and cite the times you've heard them apply this disinformation technique. Don't allow them to manipulate that trigger.
Another phrasing that needs to be illuminated as manipulative is "obstructionist". Now aren't we weary of that one. It is applied to anyone that dares dissent during this extreme administration. Exercising the right of dissent and the rights of a minority is not obstructionist and that label needs to be opposed. But again the pejorative word is selected over and over in the R language assault.
This was applied this morning on the This Week news show with two senators as guests, Allen and Leiberman. The host again carried the water by using the mantra word, is this accidental or not? One must wonder.
Stephanopoulus fails to see that this is a specific and particular time in history and there are circumstances that were not in the mix at other historical periods. Therefore to imply that a position taken in past history should be taken again when the circumstances are very much changed, is like ignoring events that have taken place, a curious position for a journalist.
Focusing on another item brought up for discussion, the Newsweek flap - it was amusing to hear the commentary on this subject. George Will was outclassed by Zakaria, who works on Newsweek and K. vandenHoevel who is I believe on the staff of Nation magazine. She remarked that if it was correct to demand retraction by Newsweek based on their use of unreliable sources, then it would be consistent if Bush would retract the War on Iraq, since that was based on unreliable sources. Touche' Ms vandenHoevel.
Then on Face the Nation, you could have learned why you cannot believe this administration. Currently they have the First Lady out there trying to write revisionist history. I think Laura should let Georgie grow up and she could set a better example by not having been submissive in the past while he was misleading the nation. Let him handle his own dirty laundry, don't pick up after him.
Blitzer had Perle and General Clark as guests and since I simply can no longer abide Perle, I took a morning nap, after all I awake and start listening to C-Span's Washington Journal at 4 a.m. our time in the Mountain Standard Zone.
Stay vigilant, challenge misframing language coding.
graysmoke
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