Strategy discussion: deflating RW Talking Points: pre-emption.

[Lerkfish]

Here's my suggestion:

Our democratic and liberal representatives, when involved in any panel discussion with RWers, should preemptively state something to the effect:

"I know my counterpart here will spout the RW talking points he's been told to memorize for this appearance...." and then thoroughly recount the current talking points of the day (they do change, so you'd have to be up on them).

Do it right out the of the gate. Since they are told to never vary from these talking points, this will stymie them: they either have to stay on script and become patently obvious shills, and the dem can continually say "yes, I already brought up your talking point", OR they have to go off script and then they will not know what to say.

If done well, this can effectively rout their ability to frame the debate, by calling ATTENTION to their tactics directly, and to their face.

thought? pros, cons?

[Cronus Protagonist]

1. Good idea but only if the points are reframed to our advantage

Substitutions of words and a few chuckles after a few of them might work, but that might be all the time one get's in a segment, so perhaps it would be better to counter the ones that the other side brought up in the same segment only. Although, this way, doing it up front wouldn't work or be possible...




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[Jim__]

2. It's a good idea, but my expectation is that the repubs would just

counter with thing like "I know my democratic opponent doesn't want tohear this, but, etc." I expect they'll stick to their talking points and just claim the dems have no answer.

The best strategy is to attack.They are so vulnerable on charges of corruption and incompetence that just hammering them with obviously true charges should be enough to beat back their talking points. The real problem is media talking heads echo repub talking points and do not echo dem talking points; so the media reinforces what they say.

[Lerkfish]

3. good points, CP and Jim...

I guess I feel that unless you call attention to their strategy, their strategy will continue to work.
but you guys make valid points about how it might not work.

thanks!