Don't feed the meme: "Moral Values" is code . . [View All]

[msmcghee]

. . for "let's imprison homos and criminalize abortion".

Every headline and commentator who uses those insipid words is just one of Karl Rove's boots grinding into your face.

Call your radio station, send a LTE, adamantly correct anyone in person who has the audacity to use it in front of you. There's nothing moral about those values and when they use them to describe the motivations of voters who elected Bush - they are perpetrating further violence against you and me. They are creating a new reality that will become the conventional wisdom for 2006 and 2008. Don't let them do it.

The media are going along with the same framing strategy that they have played into ever since Gingrich invented such a great way to marginalize any voter or politician who wasn't sufficiently biggoted for his ends.

I know this won't do much good - but we should at least be aware of how we're being screwed.