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Obama Presses Parties on Health
Feb 20th, 2010 - Wall Street Journal
. "i don't want to see this meeting turn into political theater, with each side simply reciting talking points and trying to score political
Pawlenty makes his case at conservative confab
Feb 19th, 2010 - StarTribune
washington - as a legislative brouhaha boiled in minnesota, gov. tim pawlenty addressed a conservative conference in washington on friday, delivering many of his national talking points as well as a fresh outreach to the tea party movement
Adobe's CTO Kevin Lynch Talks About Apple Insults, Flash's Future and More!
Feb 18th, 2010 - AllThingsD
for a man scorned, adobe cto kevin lynch looked awfully calm on my visit to the software company's san francisco hq yesterday. he could, i suppose, be hopping mad. to add insult to injury–from an inside-baseball tech point of view, at least
Whitman brings campaign message to Lafayette
Feb 17th, 2010 - San Jose Mercury News
lafayette - republican gubernatorial candidate and former ebay chief meg whitman, flanked by two large flat-screen monitors that echoed her numbered talking points, pounded out her stump speech before a sold-out gathering of the commonwealth club
Macworld 2010: Microsoft's MacBU talks Office for Mac 2011
Feb 12th, 2010 - TUAW
) on thursday to hear how the developers of office for mac are responding to requests from users to make it easier to work on documents across platforms. some of the most welcome additions to the suite from an author's point of view are the co-authoring tools

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Katie Couric Repeats Bush Talking Points
In Sept. 2007, Katie Couric reported live from Baghdad. But instead of using that opportunity to ask tough questions and dig for the truth, Couric asked softball questions and repeated false Bush talking points. The media's failure to ask tough questions helped us get into Iraq in the first place ...
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tpmtv: Release the Hounds!
Politics Video Blog: Scott mcclellan's surprisingly critical memoir of his time as White House Press Secretary put the White House in full-on damage control mode. mcclellan's book may have been off-message, but the White House and its surrogates were conspicuously "on" in their response.
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Obama Faces GOP On Its Talking Points
President Obama speaks to the GOP House Issues forum and debunks many talking points offered as questions by Republican House members.

Talking Points from WikiPedia:

A talking point is a neologism for an idea which may or may not be factual, usually compiled in a short list with summaries of a speaker's agenda for public or private engagements. Public relations professionals, for example, sometimes prepare "talking points memos" for their clients to help them more effectively conform public presentations with this advice.[citation needed]

A political think tank will strategize the most effective informational attack on a target topic and launch talking points from media personalities to saturate discourse in order to frame a debate in their favor, standardizing the responses of sympathizers to their unique cause while simultaneously co-opting the language used by those discussing the specific subject. When used politically in this way, the typical purpose of a talking point is to propagandize, specifically using the technique of argumentum ad nauseam, i.e. continuous repetition within media outlets until accepted as fact.[citation needed]