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Framing the issues: UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language
UC Berkeley ^
| 27 Oct 2003
| Bonnie Azab Powell
Posted on 11/01/2003 8:01:22 AM PST by petty bourgeois
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To: petty bourgeois; Constitution Day; dighton
Who's your daddy?
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:03:09 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(SSDD - Same S#it Different Democrat)
To: petty bourgeois
I'll bet the author isn't married. At least, to a man.
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:06:44 AM PST
by
Paul Atreides
(Bringing you quality, non-unnecessarily-excerpted threads since 2002)
To: petty bourgeois
Another liberal trying to justify her own psycho-therapy as important academic discovery.
To: Tijeras_Slim
petty bourgeois
Since Nov 1, 2003
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
Link is for a totally different story.....
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:08:13 AM PST
by
Arrowhead1952
(Laura Ingraham and Ann Coulter are living proof that not all blondes are dumb.)
To: petty bourgeois
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Father knows best....
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:09:22 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(SSDD - Same S#it Different Democrat)
To: petty bourgeois
Geez, is this guy full of it or what?
The phrase "Tax relief" began coming out of the White House starting on the very day of Bush's inauguration. It got picked up by the newspapers as if it were a neutral term, which it is not. First, you have the frame for "relief." For there to be relief, there has to be an affliction, an afflicted party, somebody who administers the relief, and an act in which you are relieved of the affliction. The reliever is the hero, and anybody who tries to stop them is the bad guy intent on keeping the affliction going. So, add "tax" to "relief" and you get a metaphor that taxation is an affliction, and anybody against relieving this affliction is a villain.
To: petty bourgeois
Berkeley Professor: Conservatives are "strict fathers"Versus "absent" liberal fathers? Hmmm, I wonder which is best for the family unit?
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:11:15 AM PST
by
geedee
(Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.)
To: Tijeras_Slim
I'm your daddy...and you need a SPANKING!
To: Arrowhead1952
Link is for a totally different story..... Yep, I caught that, too- hidden agenda, or honest error?
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:12:15 AM PST
by
backhoe
(Just an old Keyboard Cowboy, ridin' the trakball into the Sunset...)
To: petty bourgeois
There's actually a whole other way to think about it. Taxes are what you pay to be an American, to live in a civilized society that is democratic and offers opportunity, and where there's an infrastructure that has been paid for by previous taxpayers. This is a huge infrastructure. The highway system, the Internet, the TV system, the public education system, the power grid, the system for training scientists vast amounts of infrastructure that we all use, which has to be maintained and paid for. Taxes are your dues you pay your dues to be an American.
I love this, and hope the Democrats adopt this strategy. It begs the natural question: what do the welfare recipients pay to be Americans? Nothing; in fact, their contribution is negative. Transfer payments aren't simply un-American, but anti-American.
Run with it, liberals.
To: Arrowhead1952
No, the quote from above is near the end of the linked article.
To: backhoe
Yep, I caught that, too- hidden agenda, or honest error? Troll incompetence.
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:14:31 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(SSDD - Same S#it Different Democrat)
To: petty bourgeois
Well, how big a boy are ya?
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:14:54 AM PST
by
Tijeras_Slim
(SSDD - Same S#it Different Democrat)
To: Arrowhead1952
To: petty bourgeois
"Right now the Democrat Party is into marketing. They pick a number of issues like prescription drugs and Social Security and ask which ones sell best across the spectrum, and they run on those issues. They have no moral perspective, no general values, no identity."Hard to argue with that....
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:16:13 AM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Liberalism - Better Living through Histrionics ©)
To: petty bourgeois
Linguistic babble form a Chomsky clone.
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:17:11 AM PST
by
CaptainK
To: Physicist
Re: "This is a huge infrastructure.
The highway system, the Internet, the TV system, the public education system, the power grid, the system for training scientists vast amounts of infrastructure that we all use, which has to be maintained and paid for."
Notice how he couldn't bring himself to mention our wonderful military ?
Unfortunatly he's informed by the reality that liberals lothe any and all things military.
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posted on
11/01/2003 8:17:39 AM PST
by
ChadGore
(Kakkate Koi!)
To: CaptainK
John McWhorter used to teach linguistics at Cal. I don't know what happened to him. He may be in some sort of Symbionese or Sino-Viet re-education camp, undergoing mandatory sensitivity training.
He told me once he would speak at ANY campus but Berkeley when asked to do so/
To: JoJo Gunn
He's also got this right:
Conservatives understand what unites them, and they understand how to talk about it, and they are constantly updating their research on how best to express their ideas.
Meanwhile, all the libs do is whine and stomp their feet.
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