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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Dec-13-04 10:32 PM
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On scotty and the so called liberal media
Edited on Mon Dec-13-04 10:40 PM by nadinbrzezinski
Ok, ok so to no one's surprise our fearless and "liberal" media has
covered the scotty sentence ad nauseum.

Ok... so we all know this story really does not matter, but after reading Lakoff... it suddenly made sense (why the MSM is having an orgasm)

The scotty case gave them a wonderful paradigm for the tough daddy paradigm. Listen up so you can use this to frame this when WRITING to the MSM.

Here you have a man who MURDERED his wife and unborn son... and how he WILL BE PUNISHED! This folks is a morality play, one that none of us bought into, but one that plays very well into the MSM paradigm and the radical conservative view of the world they want to impose.

So this is why they covered it, instead of... OH... or the dollar droping, or ... the economy. After all in the mythology if you have no job it is your fault, not the fact that jobs are disapearing faster than you can say outsourcing.

What will it take? YOU AND I have to reframe the message. When complaining to the MSM do not play the morality play, just point out that the commons is disapering and that jobs are fleeing. Oh and it will take you, me and many millions to get them to do it.

Oh and yes consider this a shameless plug for "Don't Think of an Elephant." by George Lakoff

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