If they get to call it "ObamaCare", then why haven't we called the economic disaster

[elocs]

The Bush Recession?

I've wondered why so often we allow the Republicans to define things and to put Democrats on the defensive.

[TonyMontana]

1. It's the media

Can't do much about it when the media is run by corporations.

[elocs]

8. Really? Is it the media when Democratic reps let it go unchallenged?

I haven't really heard any Democrats publicly challenge the "ObamaCare" tag.

[FiveGoodMen]

13. The Dems have been too busy reaching across the aisle

[rainy]

2. because whatever we put out there the media will not

repeat it nor run with it no matter how sane or correct. When the republicans put lies out there they get a lot of media play until they are repeated so much that everyone believes the lies.

[evirus]

3. on the surface people hate negative campaigns, but beneath the surface they can't decide without it

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Scott McAdams makes the point

that with all the Republican amendments to the bill and all the compromising that was done to try to get them to vote for it, it should more accurately be called Mitch McConnellcare.

[handmade34]

5. simple - we are a (unspoken) corporatocracy

corporations include the media and they control the message

[lpbk2713]

6. It's the famous Bush Legacy.

They were ballyhooing Smirky's legacy just before he left office in disgrace.

Well, here we are.

[derby378]

7. Because FOX News is the propaganda arm of the Republican Party

Geroge Lakoff has a more intellectual take on framing, but Frank Luntz knows what will sell to his target audience. This is a problem.

[damntexdem]

9. GOPdon'tCare.

Actually, once people find out the advantages they receive from this weak imitation of a health coverage system, ObamaCare may come to be a widely-respected term.

[elocs]

10. OK, I just don't buy this "the media won't allow it" answer to this.

That god don't hunt. Nobody is stopping the Democratic politicians and operatives from speaking out and I don't think anyone is silencing KO, Rachael, or Ed or any of the others that I always read here that are on fire. Who is stopping any of these from challenging tags like "ObamaCare" and other ways that Republicans are allowed to define things.

[hobbit709]

11. I call the Bush terms The Disaster Years.

[elocs]

12. Calling the recession the "Bush Recession" is at least as accurate as "ObamaCare".

After all, it started under Bush and was largely a result of his policies.

[hvn_nbr_2]

21. I like "BushCrash" or "BushWreck" as counterpoint to Obamacare. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

14. The media is why. Fox: "Obamacare" MSNBC: "What repubicans call Obamacare" Either way . . . . .

. . . . the term gets pushed.

[glinda]

15. They plant disgrace and belittling by their terminology such as

"the Pelosi-this or that" or the "Obama-Reed this or that". It is all a face slam to not use their titles. It is a disgrace and disrespectful. They should be called on it.

[elocs]

16. Where I live they slam my Democratic rep with the Pelosi-Kind tag

like it's some kind of dirty word.

[glinda]

19. Sad. Repugs from the beginning, never used proper titles.

[craigmatic]

17. the "Obamacare" slur is just an updated version of the "Hillarycare" one. They're so lazy

they're recycling talking points. Look on the bright side at least republicans are recycling.

[AmBlue]

18. Or how about the BUSH-WRECK!! nt

[spanone]

20. cause the media really gets to decide these things..they are not liberal

[senseandsensibility]

22. Because we don't do "impolite"

no matter what the provocation.

[senseandsensibility]

23. Because we don't do "impolite"

no matter what the provocation.

[bergie321]

24. I remember Jon Stewart challenging it once

But that's about it.