More controversial talking points out of the RW

[grumpyduck]

McConnell's comment about voting and a "Dem power grab." Never mind that it's the pot calling the kettle black, but it seems that the "new," so to speak, way of doing things is to come up with these little phrases that get repeated all over the media and get people all riled up.

It's like back in the old days, when advertisers would come up with little jingles that they wanted to stick in people's minds. It worked then, and it still works. Difference being that the jingles weren't picked up by "TV pundits," because there weren't any.

Projection, deflection, distraction, misdirection, call it what you want. And we keep falling for it.

[NewJeffCT]

1. The GOP has been using sound bite governing since the 1990s

when Newt Gingrich worked with then young GOP pollster Frank Luntz in promoting the "Contract with America"

It's very effective because it plays well on the nightly news and on RW radio.

Democrats too often talk in nuance and with wordy explanations that isn't as easy to boil down into a soundbite.

[grumpyduck]

2. Time to learn the technique?

[NewJeffCT]

3. They've tried

but, Democrats are not organized enough nor disciplined enough to follow in lock-step like Republicans. Republican leaders usually get a lot more airtime in the "mainstream" media than do Democratic leaders as well. When the media puts Dems on the air, it's often Joe Manchin (now) or Joe Lieberman or Zell Miller in the past who are critical of Dem leadership

[grumpyduck]

4. Good point. Thanks.