Please stop using the word "narrative". That's an MSM word.

[bluestateguy]

I don't know why, but the word "narrative" just goes through me like fingers on the chalkboard. It has that MSM sound to it; very Georgetown Cocktail Party.

And now that the punditocracy has taken to using this word all the time, I now find it popping up regularly on DU, much more so than was ever the case in 2004.

This is a presidential primary to pick the leader of the free world, not a story, which is what a "narrative is.

[HereSince1628]

1. Do you like "discourse" or 'rhetoric' any better,

Personally I find the term 'backstory' hard on the ears and it seems to have been recently inserted into the media.


Narrative is a real word, and each campaign does have one it's trying to tell about their candidate.

The level of discourse as in GD-P, has sunk into what would be socially unacceptable in most social settings.

The rhetoric (use of words expressing reasons or emotions to make a case or win an argument) of the campaigns' supporters is mostly devoid of rational presentation of ideas and has become a matter of engaging in insulting verbal jibes.

The backstory is simply that the campaign season is providing little of substance to report on.

[bluestateguy]

2. kick

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