From Bill Maher... Im typically not a fan of political/policy opinions from those outside of academia, but this is nonetheless pretty damn good. For decades now liberals pushed the issue of assisted suicide and it got nowhere. Then they started to call it aid in dying and its approval shot up 20 points and it is now legal in five states. … That’s the power of language. … That success and the success the Democrats had rebranding gay marriage as marriage equality means they’ve finally caught on to what Republicans learned a long time ago from their guru on words, … Frank Luntz. Frank is the genius Right Wing wordsmith who taught Republicans instead of saying ‘estate tax’, say ‘death tax’. Instead of saying poor people, say the takers. … What Democrats need to do is start out-Luntzing the Republicans on all the issues. What’s the difference between drilling for oil and energy exploration. Nothing except one sounds like something a$$holes do. One sounds like Indiana Jones. … Healthcare reform, everyone likes that. Government takeover of healthcare, what are you, Hitler? What’s the difference between Creationism and Intelligent Design? Not I.Q. points. … Being a Republican means starting with a bedrock principle like rich people shouldn’t pay taxes… and then figuring out how to sell it to low information voters otherwise known as Americans. Did I say don’t tax rich people? I meant encourage the job creators. Did I say don’t let Black people vote? I meant clamp down on voter fraud. … Republicans are always confident they can move the needle on any issue because, ‘A’, they know they have the right words to make the hamster hit the pedal. … ‘B’, they have the discipline with those words. Perhaps you noticed how everyone on the Right universally decided at the exact same moment that Obama’s ‘weakness’ is what ‘emboldened Putin to take Crimea. At that’s not a matter of great minds thinking alike because for that you would need great minds. … That’s because once the word is decided on, every single Republican from the presidential contenders on down to the feces throwers on hate radio … all chant it like rain man over and over until it is beaten into our skull. … Now I have no hope that Democrats will ever get that organized. But they could at least keep up the winning streak in the word game. Starting with liberals must stop saying they believe in climate change. Or believe in evolution. Evolution is. … I don’t believe that water boils at 212 degrees. That’s how hot it is when it happens. It’s not ideology, it is soup. … Most of all, just remember, you win the word game, you win the issue. Jesus was for feeding the poor. Rename food stamps, ‘Christ coupons’. … Marijuana legalization should be called, ‘creating green jobs’. … And solar energy has always sounded way too gay for rednecks. Instead say, invade the sun and takes its oil.
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 14:26:31 +0000
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