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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 12:42 AM Jun 2017

Vox - On Fox News, the first rule of the Senate health care bill is not to talk about it

So, how will Al Franken, Bernie Sanders, Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren reach the Trump voters who are plugged into Fox News, Rush Limbaugh and Brietbart to tell them that Trump is cutting their benefits to pay for tax cuts for himself? I guess Democrats are plugged into a media bubble called reality. How do we reach others who are hermetically sealed from facts and reason?

https://www.vox.com/2017/6/23/15862130/fox-news-trump-voters-dark-senate-health-care-bill-obamacare-repeal

How do you defend an effort like the Senate’s new health care bill, which neither repeals nor replaces Obamacare, but merely loots it to deliver tax breaks to the rich? By the president’s own standards, the bill fails to deliver: There would be higher, not lower premiums, and cuts to Medicaid. Instead of “insurance for everybody” there would be insurance for millions of fewer Americans — many of them the same people who elected the president.

So how do you spin a bill that seems un-spinnable? The answer, if you’re Fox News, is that you don’t. You deflect, you distract, and if necessary, you bend the truth. Above all, you hope that people care more about the politics than the policy.

According to the Pew Research Center, 40 percent of Trump voters named Fox News as their primary source of information about current events. But if you were watching Fox News last night, you wouldn’t have learned much at all about an impending piece of legislation that could upend your life. You wouldn’t understand anything about it expect that liberals hate it and the president sees it as a victory.

Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity could scarcely find time to discuss this major piece of legislation in between segments on Nancy Pelosi, Chinese dog meat, and “leftist rage.” When they did get around to talking about health care, they spent more time reviewing their complaints about Obamacare than discussing the new bill.

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Vox - On Fox News, the first rule of the Senate health care bill is not to talk about it (Original Post) TomCADem Jun 2017 OP
You watch this will be Democrats fault when it starts wrecking the deplorable lives.. Volaris Jun 2017 #1
Look at Trump Blaming Obama for Russian Interference TomCADem Jun 2017 #2
That's just it. dgauss Jun 2017 #3

Volaris

(10,260 posts)
1. You watch this will be Democrats fault when it starts wrecking the deplorable lives..
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 02:17 AM
Jun 2017

For not fighting hard enough to stop it from getting passed. I suppose PTBarnum was right.

TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
2. Look at Trump Blaming Obama for Russian Interference
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 02:38 AM
Jun 2017

Even though Republicans aggressively opposed any response by Obama.

dgauss

(880 posts)
3. That's just it.
Sun Jun 25, 2017, 03:29 AM
Jun 2017

I think people hope that once the damage finally hits home to Trump supporters that that will finally see that it was the Republicans that did the damage.

That won't happen, and it won't happen because of Fox News, right wing websites and, probably most of all, the incredibly pervasive right wing radio that convinces half the population of this country that up is down.

Until we figure out a way to change that, arguments based on logic and cause and effect will fail.

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