Rachael,

I'd like to make Mr Cain a bet. The sad thing is I cant back back up this bet. So I'ii ask you and your MSNBC pals to back me up. I'm putting in $1000 .It's a simple deal. Bet Cain $5m he is not the GOP nominee. Simple deal. You win, we pay, you lose, you pay Mr Cain, bet on yourself. Lets see how this works. I have the 1st $1000 for this bet

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Funny Monty Python reference (Abortion = Spam).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE

If only Republicans were actually more concerned with the unemployment rate and less in my uterus.

Grade: D minus on Abortion story.

You have the facts. Brilliant Sherlock- as if being factually correct was sufficient. You carried the ball to the one yard line and you just stopped and gave yourself a pat on the back.

WTF was the narrative on the abortion repetition story? Ok, you could have gone to belittling them with Monty Python references that few would comprehend.

Who are you trying to convince- the choir? No. The bi-conceptual voter that goes progressive on most issues, but GOP on abortion. If you belittle them you do exactly what FOX wants you to do- you tell them there only home is in the GOP. So don't get trapped.

Now please push Journalism baggage off to the side for a moment and refresh your creative writing skills. You are looking for a story line where this repetition would be unwanted- how to reflect the GOP behavior for what truly is.

It is email spam. Put yourself in their shoes. Your Story is a person out of a job for 46 months. They go to their email looking for responses to all the places they sent their resume. All they have in their inbox is pieces of mail from the GOP on Abortion. That is your visual. You do not Dis the person's views on abortion. You point out that they have a lot more problems they care about. They need a job. Their children are in a run down school. Their mother is having a hard time making ends meet and there is talk her social security or medicare will be cut.....

But all the GOP does is Spam their inbox with the same dunning emails about this one issue.

You think messaging is dishonest? That is crap. Read Lakoff. Emotions are not opposed to thinking- they are the backbone of thinking. Emotional appeals are not the tool of the propagandist. They tell the truth. The question is which truth. I am not saying you jettison any of the journalism whatever. I am saying get a clue and provide the narrative that provides the emotional structure for those facts.

Because you know what? If you don't give them a narrative they will make one up. They will hear fact fact fact... they begin frame fitting... notice the feminist hairdo... the "feminist" complaining on and on about abortion... aok the viewer has plugged you into the feminist whiner liberal narrative and ... they click the next channel and you are shut off.

You just lost them. Brilliant Maddow. Brilliant.

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