I recently watched a video featuring a staged auto collision. Unsuspecting witnesses

[Atticus]

saw one car slide sideways into a parked vehicle. The actual speed of the sliding car, per radar gun, was 20 mph.

When asked how fast the car was going when it "slammed" into the parked car, the witnesses said "40 to 50 mph" "for sure".

When other witnesses were asked about speed when the car "bumped" the parked vehicle, they answered "15-20 mph."

Word choice matters. Beware of interviewers who try to skew the responses by using emotional trigger terms. Many of them originate with Trumpies and are picked up by lazy and thoughtless "journalists".

It is one thing to say Democrats are "angered" by Senator Mancin's "Sunday surprise". It is quite another to say Democrats are "panicked".

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. A big, fat K&R!♥

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Cross reference George Lakoff and "framing". . . .nt

[Atticus]

4. Exactly. nt

[Poiuyt]

10. I wish Democrats would utilize him

[paleotn]

12. The way the GQP uses Frank Luntz.

[KS Toronado]

3. When in reality.......

we're disappointed and pissed off.

[soldierant]

9. Oh, I think I could go all the way to "furious."

[CrispyQ]

5. When pollsters present "liberal" ideas or policies to people,

without using the terms liberal, leftist, or democratic, a much higher number poll in favor of them.

[iluvtennis]

6. KnR. n/t

[Disaffected]

7. This is also BTW an example of

the often unreliability of eye-witness testimony.

[oldsoftie]

8. exactly

[paleotn]

11. If I only had a voodoo doll of Joe Manchin. How's that for panicked?

[Atticus]

14. I'd just call that "creatively pissed". Go for it---ya never know! nt

[Progressive Jones]

13. Manchin turns out to be just another red state region failure.

The red state region fails this nation on a regular basis.