Thursday, July 12, 2012

Pinkospeak, explained

Taranto links to this story today. In case you missed it, it's worth reading the whole review of this Pepean opus magnum. In short: Lakoff .. essentially says, “Hey, you ignorant yet diabolical rubes, shut the hell up and submit to an incessant barrage of our vacuous euphemistic leftist slogans, because you’re too stupid and evil for an honest debate.”

3 comments:

Mr roT said...

Pretty damned cool.

Arelcao Akleos said...

"In the Lakoff framing, the bigger and more powerful the federal government becomes, the more freedom we have."

Ah, so this is where that bit of Party Line came from.I suppose, winding down that River of his, Charly has beacoup time for reading Little Bleu Books.

Tecumseh said...

The perfect bedtime companion for the Bleu who can't be bothered to read anything but Little Books.