Guest Thinkers — August 16, 2010

DRUDGE: Clinton Assails Bush’s ‘War on Science’…

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That’s the headline at the Drudge Report today with a link to this AP story on Hillary Clinton’s Sputnik anniversary speech. As a way to attract attention and rally the base, Clinton adopts the tagline from Chris Mooney’s Republican War of Science, offering up a frame device that immediately triggers public accountability as a train of thought.

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