# Where do they get the talking points?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 7, 2005, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556 "2005-09-07T18:30:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556/41 "2005-09-08T18:57:03Z")

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> [@THespos](#):
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> Link is farked. I get a “forbidden.”

Odd. I just tried it again and it worked just fine. Well then, here is an alternate link. It goes to Salon, and requires you to click through an ad first. [An advertisement, and maybe a political carton, if you are lucky](http://www.salon.com/src/pass/gateway/demo2.html?http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2005/05/16/tomo/index.html?sid=1343701).

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**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556/42 "2005-09-08T19:10:07Z")

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Thanks for the new link. Hysterical cartoon.

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**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556/43 "2005-09-08T19:13:41Z")

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Linky still confuckulated. Try this one:

[http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2005/05/16/tomo/index.html?sid=1343701](http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2005/05/16/tomo/index.html?sid=1343701)

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**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556/44 "2005-09-08T20:06:12Z")

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> [@TheLoadedDog](#):
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> I’m a conservative, but they must have left me off the mailing list. Anyway, I really do see this crap from both sides. The left, I’ve noticed, doesn’t so much have buzzwords as a defined writing style which, ironically, to me seems almost corporate in its use of redundant words as padding.
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> I run a transcription business form home, and a lot of my work comes from folks you could very loosely call “liberal-left” ( a multicultural affairs office in a women’s hospital, studies on minority-targeted programming in a public broadcaster, etc). I often know what these folks are going to say before I hear it. There is a certain pattern to their speech, and lots of redundant words.
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> Right: I’m an Asian guy.  
> Left: I self-identify as an Asian-Australian male.
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> That sorta thing.

Huh! This is in no way a reflection on either party, but I’ve noticed that trend too, among my hyper-academically-inclined friends and professors. The overly-specific “paradigm talk” and definitions of every other word – that’s interesting.

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**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-do-they-get-the-talking-points/320556/45 "2005-09-08T20:45:20Z")

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> [@CalMeacham](#):
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> [stegosaur]BlameGame![/stegosaur]
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> [apatosaur]BllllllllaaaaaaammmmmmmeGaaaaammmmmmmmmme[/apatosaur]

;j

Gentlelizards, it doesn’t look good. A giant asteroid is heading straight towards us, the climate is shifting, and we all have brains that are only the size of a walnut.

Now now…, let’s not play the “blame game” here. We need to look for the positive aspects of extinction.

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