[Peace-discuss] UC Berkeley uprising - George Lakoff

[C. G. Estabrook]

It's been clear for a while that Lakoff (and his "framing") was a fraud.  But it's rare to get such a clear confirmation of such a thing.  --CGE

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>Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:26:16 -0800 (PST)
>From: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] UC Berkeley uprising - George Lakoff  
>To: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
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>   http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/23233
>    
>   Since Lakoff was amicably (no pun intended)
>   interviewed recently on Democracy Now, it's
>   important to see where he's coming from:
>    
>
>   Particularly egregious in this respect was
>   Democratic Party "framing" strategist and
>   self-styled movement guru George Lakoff. Visibly
>   angered by the occupiers' refusal to leave Wheeler
>   voluntarily (without any of their demands having
>   been met, of course), Lakoff seized the megaphone to
>   spew the morally bankrupt argument that since the
>   students knew they would be met with police
>   violence, they would themselves be responsible for
>   creating that violence if they chose to remain. No
>   more repulsive a phrase was uttered that day. And
>   were this not sufficient, Lakoff was even heard
>   lying repeatedly to the occupiers, insisting that
>   there had been no police violence, no rubber
>   bullets, and no injuries outside the building, all
>   in an effort to manipulate those inside into
>   abandoning the occupation.
>
>    
>
>   DG
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