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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVox - 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 Senates new health care bill, which neither repeals nor replaces Obamacare, but merely loots it to deliver tax breaks to the rich? By the presidents 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 youre Fox News, is that you dont. 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 wouldnt have learned much at all about an impending piece of legislation that could upend your life. You wouldnt 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.
Volaris
(10,274 posts)For not fighting hard enough to stop it from getting passed. I suppose PTBarnum was right.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)Even though Republicans aggressively opposed any response by Obama.
dgauss
(883 posts)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.