Thanks. Have you watched reality…the MSM always labels violent protests as peaceful protests…even with buildings burning in the background. People have a right to protest…but not loot and burn cities.
This is trolling. I’ve decided against it, but the White House has not. CBS’s Major Garrett writes in National Journal about a new version of the “stray voltage” theory of communication in which the president purposefully overstates his case knowing that it will create controversy. Garrett describes it this way: “Controversy sparks attention, attention provokes conversation, and conversation embeds previously unknown or marginalized ideas in the public consciousness.”
The issue last week was the pay gap between men and women. The president issued executive orders to address the disparity, and Democrats pushed legislation in Congress. In making the case, the president and White House advisers used a figure they knew to be imprecise and controversial—a Census Bureau statistic that the median wages of working women in America are 77 percent of median wages earned by men.
Under this approach, a president wants the fact-checkers to call him out (again and again) because that hubbub keeps the issue in the news, which is good for promoting the issue to the public. It is the political equivalent of “there is no such thing as bad publicity” or the quote attributed to Mae West ([and others]
(http://www.nku.edu/~turney/prclass/readings/3eras1x.html)): “I don’t care what the newspapers say about me as long as they spell my name right.” The tactic represents one more step in the embrace of cynicism that has characterized President Obama’s journey in office.
If I want a ride home and my only two choices are a drunk teen who really wants to take me home or a professional race car driver who wants to drive into a tree, which ride should I take?
Yes, can see that might increase some young children drinking bleach. Likely not true of older children or adults. I wonder what might have influenced them?