{"id":2032,"date":"2006-07-26T03:12:04","date_gmt":"2006-07-26T07:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2006\/07\/legislative_labels\/"},"modified":"2006-07-26T03:12:04","modified_gmt":"2006-07-26T07:12:04","slug":"legislative_labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2006\/07\/legislative_labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislative Labels"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve sometimes wondered how many people can be fooled into supporting a bill or policy simply because it has a cute name. You know, like “Patriot Act,” “Clear Skies,” “We Love Children Act,” or whatever. I suspected that such marketing might have some sway on those who don’t follow the particular issue. After all, what uninformed person wouldn’t support whatever noble objective a catchy title claimed said law would achieve?
\nApparently, it’s not just Joe Blow on the street who can thus be tricked by a bill’s name. Last weekend on Tim Russert<\/em> Thomas Friedman admitted (boasted?) that he would support a proposal simply because it was entitled a “free trade” agreement<\/a>. That’s right: forget what a pact says (or doesn’t say) regarding labor, the environment, or security; as long as its proponents use the magic words “free trade,” our supposed guru on economics and world trade is on board.
\nIt’s remarkable what can learn from world-class big journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve sometimes wondered how many people can be fooled into supporting a bill or policy simply because it has a cute name. You know, like “Patriot Act,” “Clear Skies,” “We Love Children Act,” or whatever. I suspected that such marketing might have some sway on those who don’t follow the particular issue. After all, what […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}