Friday, September 15, 2006

When You Are Loading Up the Propaganda Catapult Up, It Is Important To Get Your Terms Straight

From Friday's presidential press briefing:
Q On both the eavesdropping program and the detainee issues --

THE PRESIDENT: We call it the terrorist surveillance program, Hutch.
Ah, I see, that makes the fact you are violating our consititutional rights better. Okay.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...


There's a name for this rhetorical trick.

It's called, 'Framing the debate.'

Anonymous said...


the Religion of Whiny Children (with weapons)

More 'Framing the debate.'