[lbo-talk] Luntz, wordsmith

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>There's no reason you can't be honest and still come up with stinging 
>labels. Let that New England ice thaw a bit, Carl!

Ah, New England is the very cradle of stinging labels -- the Scarlet Letter 
and all that.  But as for thawing, forget it.  New Hampshire's Old Man of 
the Mountain took that advice, and look what happened to him:

<http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/whites/old_man.html>

<http://www.mountwashington.org/oldman/>

Carl