E.J. Dionne interview.....

[kentuck]

on Buzzflash.com An interesting read. He has some really good, quotable material. :)
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http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/04/07/int04036.html

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Take Dionne's position on the great canard, "Was Al Gore Too Much of a Populist?" (which is always proposed by people who forget that Gore WON the 2000 election by more than a half a million votes). Dionne's take: "He attacked big oil companies, polluters, HMOs, and big insurance companies. Does anybody think he lost voters by doing this?.... On many issues, the 'mainstream' is populist." Thank you, E. J.!

Dionne falls into the camp of those who urge Democrats to redefine the issues to their advantage. It is what Berkeley Professor George Lakoff calls framing. Up until now, the Republicans have been brilliant at framing (and deceiving), and the Democrats have been abysmal failures at framing (while being generally successful at being relatively honest). Deeply interested in the writings of Orwell, Dionne quotes him as observing: "If thought corrupts language, language also corrupts thought." This could be the Republican propaganda motto. Perhaps it is.
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[Syrinx]

1. I'm reading his book

"Stand Up, Fight Back." It offers some really good advice for Democrats. I hope Kerry reads it.