What I love about this one is how he doesn't actually say that Scott is wrong. Just another fine example of shamelessly playing to the bigots in the base. Check out this photo (left) of Scott. Could he BE any more obvious?A leaked document from Fox News managing editor Bill Sammon also has the Internet buzzing. I have no idea why. Are there people out there that are still surprised by the fact that Fox News manipulates language in order to sway people to think a certain way?
Here is the memo.
1) Please use the term "government-run health insurance" or, when brevity is a concern, "government option," whenever possible.
2) When it is necessary to use the term "public option" (which is, after all, firmly ensconced in the nation's lexicon), use the qualifier "so-called," as in "the so-called public option."
3) Here's another way to phrase it: "The public option, which is the government-run plan."
4) When newsmakers and sources use the term "public option" in our stories, there's not a lot we can do about it, since quotes are of course sacrosanct.
Yeah, and? Why is this a shocking revelation? I suppose it is very interesting to see how Fox uses the word "government" and how insistent they are that is mentioned a great deal. Since we have been discussing this recently, I thought at least worthy of a note. This is yet another fine example of how marketing manipulates people into acting against their self interest. The word "government" is a code word specifically used to control thought.
In many ways, it's a trigger word (see: The Manchurian Candidate) used to activate somewhere between 30-40 million Americans. Clearly, it's very successful.
Hell, they don't need to kill anyone anymore. When you have that many people so nicely controlled, who needs assassins?
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Well M, being wrong never stopped you from running your mouth. What's good for the goose is good for the gander, eh what?
From the extremist right-wing blog, The Daily Beast:
"The memos were obtained by the liberal advocacy group Media Matters. The public option—an alternative insurance exchange for those who could not get health coverage from their employers—would in fact have been run by the Health and Human Services Department. (The provision was eventually dropped before Congress passed the legislation.) The significance of the marching orders is that they were issued to the news division, which aims to be fair and balanced and is run separately from the opinion side, populated by the likes of Hannity and Glenn Beck." (emphasis added.)
So your gripe is that the term they used was, in fact, accurate.
But of course, this
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010139796_apuspublicoptionrebranding.html?syndication=rss
isn't even worthy of comment, much less worthy of outrage, right?
The word "government" is a code word specifically used to control thought.
You mean it doesn't mean, er... government?
Mark,
Don't you suppose that the term 'public' may have been wordsmithed originally for the same damned but opposite reason?
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