Talking Dangerously: Geoffrey Nunberg

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Geoffrey Nunberg: The Semantics of Torture

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Geoffrey Nunberg: GOP Scrambling to Find New Language

04 min 12 sec

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The Linguistics of Economic Terminology

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Posted: 10.18.09, 01:09 PM

In my opinion the current world wide recession that we are now experiencing and the invasion of Iraq are very much the result of the policies and philosophy of right wing politics which the ground work was laid down by Ronald Reagan by his approach to politics, such as �the problem is government�, apparently few people was giving much thought that the government is the only governing body with the authority to keep capitalism in check.
Then there's the lead up to the invasion of Iraq with Bush's statements of � you are either with us or you are against us� which compelled the spineless democrats to buckle under, knowing that the right is mean and nasty and so were more concerned about their political careers due to the consequences of opposing, or even questioning them, than for the welfare of the country. Even the, so called liberal media buckled under without even questioning the rhetoric. However, I have loads of praises for Frontline for their investigative reports, though apparently, few were listening.
Then there's the concept of lower taxes, which sounds like a good thing, but the agenda was really to deregulate and de-fund regulatory agencies that allowed the capitalist, of all sorts, to run amok
I disagree with Mr. Nunberg in his assessment that the right is finished, being that they are very good at using spin to appeal to the common people with catch phrases to address the lowest most common denominator and will, without a doubt in my opinion, will have no problem in conjuring up wedge issues and will be back in power again sooner or later, heaven help us.
Even now the right dominates the general media on the TV, radio and the internet with their hate mongering, misleading and spinning propaganda that would make Goebbels proud.

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