Diversionary Reframing review

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Diversionary Reframing (review)

• Karl Rove If youre explaining, youre
  losing.
• Thomas Pynchon If they can get you asking the
  wrong question, they dont have to worry about
  the answers.
• DIVERT attention away from issues/questions that
  work against you, by
• 2. REFRAMING issues as about something else
  (often, about legitimacy of other side).
• Basic Pattern
• Q Why does your company create more than its
  share of pollution, environmental harm?
• A You must be against people having jobs.

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Assignment

• Use comparable techniques
• To promote idea of carbon tax (or debt tax, or
  hypocrisy tax)
• By developing strange bedfellows
• Suggested themes
• Stop Taxing Our Children Now! (stocnow.org?)
• and
• Tax Pollution, not Jobs

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Consider Example
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Consider Example
will WAR cost?
Bailout cost?
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SO How to respond?

• Whats strange bedfellows framing of carbon
  tax?
• Stop Taxing Our Children! Responsibility, need
  to emulate earlier generations, support troops.
• (Secondary) These arent just abstract numbers

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source jec.senate.gov/charts/Iraq20Economic20Co
st20Report/chart3.pdf
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http//www.brillig.com/debt_clock/faq.html
Bush II
Reagan Bush I
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http//www.federalbudget.com/
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http//zfacts.com/p/318.html
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