Reply #1: great comment about talking points --as dissembling and distorting info.

[rodeodance]

......Talking points, generically speaking, are the inverse of analysis. To analyze, you assemble the known and circumstantial facts and apply logic to reach a conclusion. When using talking points, you start with the desired conclusion, and then -- as the Downing Street Memo so elegantly phrased it -- you fix the facts around the policy. You cherry-pick details. If necessary, you dissemble and distort.