Mika Brzezinski uses GOP talking point as objective description

On today’s “Morning Joe” talk show, co-host Mika Brzezinski asked a question about “Obamacare.” She didn’t seem to be using the term as if with air quotes, or ironically, but as an objective description of the recently passed healthcare reform legislation. She was interviewing about its possible repeal.

Mika Brzezinski

It appears that Brzenzinski unwittingly has been gamed by the Republican strategy that “Obamacare” would be a good catch phrase to describe healthcare reform as an insatiable behemoth ready to consume our freedom, the “best healthcare system in the world” and even the Constitution itself. A frightening bogeyman if there ever was one.

You have to admire the Republicans (seriously). They are always on message and with plenty of descriptives that are short and compelling. They truly have control over the political narrative, even influencing a supposedly objective, no-labels commentator.

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