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Journalist Chris Tucker considers (slightly tongue in cheek) what's become the usual election year practice of "flip-flop" accusations. He proposes a test to determine when someone has truly flip-flopped and when a person has changed his or her mind based on facts.
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Piece Description
Journalist Chris Tucker considers (slightly tongue in cheek) what's become the usual election year practice of "flip-flop" accusations. He proposes a test to determine when someone has truly flip-flopped and when a person has changed his or her mind based on facts.
Broadcast History
"The Flip Flop Test" aired during "Morning Edition" on KERA 90.1 FM in Dallas, TX.
Transcript
As John McCain and Barack Obama vie for the presidency, we hear almost daily complaints about alleged "flip-flopping" on various issues. Commentator Chris Tucker has a two-part test for determining when a flip-flop is under way.
Every campaign season produces plenty of heated rhetoric and flying charges about so-called flip-flops. Opposition research teams dig back into their rival?s distant past to find changes of position so minute you need scientific instruments to detect them.
How many times have we seen some candidate castigated for deviating from an earlier stance? How many times have we heard that shocked, shocked announcer's voice warning us that back in 1971, Senator Marglebargle spoke out against the Equal Rights Amendment?
Which prompts the question: What?s a flip-flop, anyway? What?s the difference between a dishonest, craven switch for political advantage and an...
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Suggested intro: As John McCain and Barack Obama vie for the presidency, we hear almost daily complaints about alleged "flip-flopping" on various issues. Commentator Chris Tucker has a two-part test for determining when a flip-flop is under way.
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