Speech impediments: after two decades spent trying to change the subject, Democrats finally seem to understand that they need to speak a language of values. A good first step: figuring out what they are.(Language)
American Prospect, The, March, 2004 by Nunberg, Geoffrey
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FOR A LESSON IN HOW THE RIGHT USES LANGUAGE to shape political perceptions, consider the television ad that the archconservative Club for Growth ran during the Iowa caucuses. An announcer asks a middle-aged couple leaving a barbershop what they think of "Howard Dean's plans to raise taxes on families by $1,900 a year." The man responds, "I think Howard Dean should take his tax-hiking, government-expanding, latte-drinking, sushi-eating, Volvo driving, New York Times reading ..." and then his wife picks up the litany--"...
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