Thursday, June 30th 2005
Framing Yourself In
Wall Street Journal’s Best of the Web notes this article on the Huffington Post by UC Berkeley professor George Lakoff:
For a while last week, the Democrats were doing better at framing the issues. The poll numbers showed that Bush’s approval rating was down, that around 60% of the voters had turned against the Iraq War, that support for Bush on his handling of 911 and terrorism was lower, but still pretty high.
James Taranto of the WSJ comments:
Lakoff has just said that a political goal of the Democratic Party is to turn the American people against the war the country is now fighting. Perhaps the Dems will now demand that Lakoff desist from questioning their patriotism.
how about this for framing the issues. completely ficitious analogies.
yet we never hear anything on the pro-war side about the antics of the war-profiteers.
Comment by HB — 6/30/2005 @ 3:47 pm
HB: Allegories are useful for illustrating a point.
“antics of the war-profiteers,” please elaborate. Are we talking about this?
Comment by patr — 6/30/2005 @ 4:27 pm
hmmm
Comment by HB — 6/30/2005 @ 9:57 pm