Category Archives: Framing

A Nation of Deluded Dependents: An Effect of Our Toxic Discourse

Posted on November 26, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Willful ignorance by definition: decent, hard-working people don’t receive government aid, even when they do.
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Posted in Conservatives, Democrats, Framing | 13 Comments

Tax Cuts Won’t Help You, but a Wage Increase Will

Posted on November 14, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Rephrasing ‘high’ taxes as a problem of low income.
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Posted in Economics, Framing, Taxes | 3 Comments

When Hippies Punch Back

Posted on September 27, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

“Liberals and bloggers feel like we’re the girl you take under the bleachers but won’t be seen with in the light of day.”
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Posted in Democrats, Framing | 4 Comments

Anger, Feeling, and Framing: The Lance Mannion Edition

Posted on September 16, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Anger is the appropriate emotion. Do our political ‘betters’ understand that?
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Posted in Democrats, Framing, Fucking Morons | Comments Off on Anger, Feeling, and Framing: The Lance Mannion Edition

Why Democrats Always Lose the Rhetoric War: The “Amerian Taliban” Kerfuffle

Posted on September 6, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Politics is not a debate club. And the stakes are much higher.
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Posted in Democrats, Framing | 5 Comments

A Question for Alterman About Breitbart

Posted on August 13, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Why is calling an awful person, well, awful, a bad thing?
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Posted in Basic Human Decency, Framing, Housing | 3 Comments

This Sums Up My Thoughts on ‘Framing’

Posted on August 3, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Giving people the respect they truly deserve.
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Posted in Framing, Fucking Morons | 3 Comments

Complexity and Communication: The KIPP Edition

Posted on July 16, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Once we reach the ‘dueling experts’ stage, all that’s left are ad hominem attacks: my expert is better than yours.
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Posted in Education, Framing | 3 Comments

Saturday Sermon: Opposing Viewpoints Versus Outside Perspectives

Posted on July 3, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

How to avoid ‘he-said, she-said.’
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Posted in Framing, News Media | 1 Comment

Lack of Power, Not Communication by Scientists, Is the Key Problem

Posted on July 1, 2010 by mikethemadbiologist

Ideas with power behind them gain far more traction.
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Posted in Framing, News Media, The War on Science | 6 Comments