[lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Sat Mar 19 10:17:03 PST 2005


No. We do have a completely ethical genius. His name is George Lakoff, and he is definitely worth reading to find out how you can use honest language to make a point and change minds.

But, as I said before: we don't own the airwaves. Also, a good deal of the "left" in this country is not very radical. It's mostly a feel good, self actuating left. Ugh.

Joanna

Carl Remick wrote:


>> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>>
>> Carl Remick wrote:
>>
>>> Pathetically piss-poor polemics. On the strength of this piece, one
>>> would have to conclude that wordsmith Luntz is quite the dunce.
>>> Guess he saves his good stuff for the high-price clientele.
>>
>>
>> Luntz is a fucking genius. The rationale is bullshit, but what'd you
>> expect - it's his phrasemaking that's so stunning. "Personalizing"
>> Social Security, not privatizing it. The "death tax." I'm in awe - I
>> wish we had one of him.
>
>
> Wishing for the left to have a sleazemeister like Lutz is like pining,
> in an earlier thread, for the left to have "hate machines" like the
> right does. Lutz's slippery language reflects a visceral contempt for
> the public's intelligence that the left simply can't equal -- just as
> the left can't beat the right at cultivating hatred for its own sake.
> For good and ill, the left is trapped into using honest language and
> trying to appeal to people's better instincts. Damn it all.
>
> Carl
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