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(52,204 posts)again with hillary's email, the entire frame while searching through 100,000 emails was maybe they'll find one magic email that will end her career, instead of focusing on the other 99,999 emails that show she was hard-working, smart, compassionate, a good manager, advanced america's policy interests and kept her department running smoothly. no, skip right over the forest and the trees and focus on the unicorn that may or may not exist.
those who oppose abortion are invariably referred to as "pro-life" even when they couldn't care less about a mother forced to risk death in a problematic childbirth. they're never referred to as "pro-forced-pregnancy" or "anti-choice". and they're often allowed to call those who have or perform abortions "murderers" or "baby-killers".
now consider just about anything having to do with black people. it's nearly always about whether or not they adhered to every damn rule imaginable, whether actual laws or social norms or politeness or proper respect or whatever. "black lives matter"? poor word choice. kneeling? how dare you during the national anthem.
but, um, just trying to call attention to the fact that the government is killing people ***la, la, la i can't hear you all i hear is black people complaining about something and how dare they interrupt my patriotic football game!***
oh and "defund the police" -- same crap, let's all talk about poor word choice and *completely* ignore the entire point.
now we have the debt ceiling fiasco. rarely is it framed that the republicans, for like the hundredth time, are threatening to default already approved and authorized spending. they're allowed to pretend there's some kind of "fiscal responsibility" in their position when in fact all they are doing is threatening to not pay legally obligated debts. being a deadbeat is the opposite of "fiscal responsibility", but the media pathetically lets them pretend the republicans are doing something noble or principled or whatever.
the list goes on and on....