Plus We Have a Motorcade [Thursday, April 10, 2014, 1st period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

"The President's health care deadline--the big effing deal, to paraphrase the Vice President--came up last week, and the numbers of enrollees are in: more than 7 million people have signed up, even with the website problems they had that first month. Now the right wing media is spinning like crazy, accusing the administration of bulking up the numbers, or deciding they might not be the right kinds of people--that is, young healthy people, not old sick ones-- who have signed up. Last month they were proclaiming that there was no way the President could even hit his goal because apparently they have never seen the lines at the post office the night that taxes are due and don't understand that Americans are procrastinators."

He took a sip from his coffee. "My question is this: if the President managed to spin straw into gold or discover life in outer space or the key to immortality, how would the right wing media spin those to be a horrible thing? Go."

Comments

Re: Spin Zone! [4/10]

[nobloodymessiah.livejournal.com]

"I think this requires a touch more subtlety than that," she said. "If you simply call them all liars at the outset, you alienate anyone in the middle who hasn't chosen a side yet. If you can make your argument plausible, then you stand a chance of confusing people into thinking you may be right. If you muddy things properly you can convince people of nearly anything."

Re: Spin Zone! [4/10]

[tigerundercover]

"It doesn't seem like anyone's too worried about alienating the middle, these days," Raven said. "As for plausibility, the name of the game seems to be 'it's so crazy I can't be making it up'."