It doesn't matter how stupid the attacks are--they're playing a game of WORD ASSOCIATION

[rudy23]

All they're trying to do is sow the seeds in the public's barely attentive minds. They know that people as a whole can't follow complex narratives, and can't understand nuance. All they need to do is form an imprint in people's minds, based on association.

So the more the media replays these stories, the more the word association sinks in. It doesn't matter whether they're cast in a negative or a positive light. All that matters is that they're REPEATED. You have to use REPETITION to catapult the propaganda.

So let's play a word association game. Who or what do you associate with the following?

Madrassa
High energy bill
Looters
Flip-flop
Yaaaaaaaargh!
Cut 'n' run
San Francisco values
Smoker
Shrill
Chocolate city
F*****


Bonus: every time a court makes a ruling against a conservative ideal, what kind of judge must have made the ruling?

[applegrove]

1. Years ago GOP once slurred a Democrat by saying that he had a sister

who was a known "thespian" in New York. You are right on in your analysis. They are seeding the Dem candidates.

[rfranklin]

2. ADULTERER...Rudi Guiliani....oh, and Newt Gingrich....

ABORTION SUPPORTER...John McCain...who else?

[Benhurst]

3. The self-proclaimed "Party of the Big Tent" is actually

"The Party of the Big Lie."

When I was growing up, a family friend running in a Republican primary was successfully smeared by a whispering campaign saying that he was "a known entrepreneur," who had a history of leading Boy Scout troop in the city from which he had come. This was in the 1950s. The Big Lie been going on for a long time

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. BINGO

how the right frames the debate 101

Oh sorry, according to some by you pointing this on a political board no less, you are pushing the talking points

Anyhow the question is... how do you get around it?

On a local level, talk to neighbors and friends, and try to short circuit the cycle

On a national level push for legislation making these practices beyond questionable

[ClintonTyree]

5. An ACTIVIST judge....

not one of those strict Constitutionalist Judges the GOPers are always crowing about: the strict Constitutionalist Judges that ignore the Constitution to allow the rabid-right unparalleled and illegal power within our country.

Did I get the bonus question right? What do I win? ;) Please tell me it's a free kick to Karl Rove's nut-sack. :rofl:

[poverlay]

9. Let's start framing the judge debate as that we want "common sense" judges and not

strict "Jail for jaywalkers and freedom for rapists"-constructionists...

[rudy23]

10. It is! I hope you brought your steel toed cleats! nt

[blondie58]

6. and lets not forget

their constant "slip" of Osama, instead of Obama- trying to make his name negative. Oh, but of course, it was always just a slip of the tongue,never deliberate.

[patrice]

7. Iraq

Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
Iraq
IRAN

[Greybnk48]

8. This one was dispicable and it was never repeated

to my knowledge. When John Kerry was running someone went on hardball or one of those screaming head shows shortly after Kerry had prostate surgery and the Senator-R/hitman kept repeating that Kerry's plan for Iraq was "impotent." Whoever it was (sorry I can't remember the Repug Senator who was sent out to do the hit-job), was using the word-association tactic to plant a negative seed about Kerry. I don't recall ever being so repulsed or Po'd (well maybe by some of the attacks on the Clintons, whom I like).

Framing and word association are very important tools in a world where info is delivered in sound-bites rather than sustained reasoned arguments.

[in_cog_ni_to]

11. Straight out of Newt Gingrich's playbook 'Dictionary." Remember that?

They always use that tactic and the media plays so well, don't they?

[rudy23]

12. It's just as effective when the story is repeated as a retraction, or a condemnation of whoever said

it in the first place.

Take the Madrassa thing. Or even the Obama/Osama "accidental typos" that our cable news buddies pulled off. There's the first wave that happens when they do it. Then the word association is reinforced during the 50 million times they run the story about the "mistake" or the controversial statement.