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In reply to the discussion: I wish we could talk sanely about the Clintons and their long history [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)'What makes something a 'Right Wing' attack or a 'Right Wing' argument or talking point?'
In the sense that I see the phrase used around here, it simply means 'an attack that anyone on the right has also levied against a Democrat'. It doesn't matter if the attack is dead on, and aimed directly at something bad that a Democrat has done, the mere fact that anyone on the right has also made that particular point immediately brands it as 'a RW talking point'.
Which is ridiculous.
What SHOULD make something 'RW' is that it actually derives from an ideologically right wing viewpoint. Attacking someone for being 'soft on crime' or 'bad at national security', for instance, is a REAL RW attack, because it derives from a right wing canard about 'wimpy Democrats'. Pointing out 'ties to money' has nothing that makes it ideologically RW. Indeed, the vast majority of politicians with 'ties to money' are Republicans, so it's the farthest thing from a 'RW argument'.