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Mon Nov 23, 2009 at 05:00:00 AM EST
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Here's another example of deceiving by headline, interestingly caught at headline news. The cnn.com political ticker here, there's some real subterfuge, exaggeration (and deception). Is it any wonder this network once brought us Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs (or, at its sister station, us Nancy Grace)?
A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Friday morning indicates that 38 percent of the public blames Republicans for the country's current economic problems. That's down 15 points from May, when 53 percent blamed the GOP. According to the poll 27 percent now blame the Democrats for the recession, up 6 points from May. Twenty-seven percent now say both parties are responsible for the economic mess.
Given the epic economic collapse ushered in by eight catastrophic years of George W. Bush, and ignored even as many, many voices tried to bring Bush's unconscious mind into the "game," these numbers are far too damning of Democrats. Giving Dems a year to solve such a massive collapse is absurd. |
| KathyinBlacksburg :: Impression Management and the Deceptive Headline at CNN |
| On the other hand, CNN deceived in its ticker headline. More folks still blame Repbublicans. And with the memory fatigue on the networks, no doubt more citizens will be mislead about who is to blame. They'll conflate TARP funds with bailout funds (which many do). And the Republicans will continue their lie fest until everything Bush did will somehow be Dem's fault. Given the revisionism, faulty memories, and failure of a tuned-out public to tell one event from another, the message for Dems is: Get ahead of this messaging. Congress is beginning to get it, though. It is apparently losing patience with the Fed.
It may be plenty unfair that Obama was given less than a year to solve the staggering Bush-load-o-garbage. But that's the reality we face in Bushworld, which it is still likely to be for some time. We thought we didn't' have to look at him any longer. But his nasty legacy will be forefront on into the future. |
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