Both sides send out their talking points and encourage their faithful to use them on call-in shows, letters-to-the-editor and the like. If you also notice you will also see the talking heads on the Sunday talk shows using the same phrases over and over on each network.

Ah, the politics of redundancy.

--Doug

It is the role of a newspaperman to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
-- Finley Peter Dunne