Get ready to hear/read a lot of rhetoric from the highbrow liberal pundits concerning the Presidents "narrative" concerning the events of the past few days. Inside the Beltway the theme has already taken over just about everything the liberal opinion leaders are producing.
What does it mean?
What liberals think the president should do is tell you a story, a fable. They are quite sure that if the president goes on TV and tells you the right story about what's going on, that you will just forget the severe economic losses you are experiencing at the hands of his fundamental mishandling of all things government. Apparently they think you are all children that can be tricked into forgetting about those things you fret about.
What they don't understand is that there is no "framing the issue" at this point. I take that back - this issue can be "framed," but the president won't be the person doing it. An allegorical speech that interrupts The Simpsons isn't going change America's mind on the events of the past week, or the past two years, for that matter.
The liberal elites are going to find that you aren't as stupid as they think you are. A half a century ago the president could go on TV and radio and calm a nation. We know too much now about the truth via the every growing media storm that surrounds our daily lives. A fire side chat doesn't have the same effect it used to on the American people. To infer that it does, and to specifically assume it would with the latest crisis, is to think very little of the masses.
Get ready - you will be talked down to.
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