Reply #14: It's All In The Framing... [View All]

For 30 plus years, the GOOP spin machine has attempted to redefine political definitions, badgering and pushing the corporate media further and further to the right. Their claim that the nation is "center-right" is a product of their pushing the media in that direction. They did so by redefining words to suit their needs...ones that are common place on hate radio and Faux Noise. They describe themselves as "fiscally responsible", "patriots", "Amuricans" and the like while anyone who doesn't fit their mold is given a perjorative...usually the "dreaded "L" word". By constant repetition of their big lies, the definitions of things such as "socialist" or even "moderate" were changed to sound outright radical and not reflective of their real standings in our and other societies.

No, President Obama is neither a "socialist" nor would many of us think that he's either liberal or progressive. Some may say "center-left" while I think the vast majority here would say he's a moderate (and I know others who would even dispute that)...but in the modern day corporate media world where up is down, definitions have been co-opted and the more unhinged the rushpublicans become the more distorted and contorted those definitions are.