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		<title>By: Paul Wilczynski</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Wilczynski</dc:creator>
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		<description>Being a firm believer in Lakoff's concept of framing, I'm slogging through his &lt;em&gt;Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think&lt;/em&gt;.  I understand that &lt;em&gt; is a condensed version.

In &lt;a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml" rel="nofollow"&gt;this article&lt;/a&gt;, Lakoff gives several examples of framing, and emphasizes who complex it is to frame your message over time.  On taxes being framed as an issue of patriotism:
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t is an issue of patriotism! Are you paying your dues, or are you trying to get something for free at the expense of your country? It's about being a member. People pay a membership fee to join a country club, for which they get to use the swimming pool and the golf course. But they didn't pay for them in their membership. They were built and paid for by other people and by this collectivity. It's the same thing with our country — the country as country club, being a member of a remarkable nation. But what would it take to make the discussion about that? Every Democratic senator and all of their aides and every candidate would have to learn how to talk about it that way. There would have to be a manual. Republicans have one. They have a guy named Frank Luntz, who puts out a 500-page manual every year that goes issue by issue on what the logic of the position is from the Republican side, what the other guys' logic is, how to attack it, and what language to use.
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We need to this very carefully about every word and phrase we use, and develop a consistant language.&lt;/em&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Being a firm believer in Lakoff&#8217;s concept of framing, I&#8217;m slogging through his <em>Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think</em>.  I understand that <em> is a condensed version.</em></p>
<p>In <a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2003/10/27_lakoff.shtml" rel="nofollow">this article</a>, Lakoff gives several examples of framing, and emphasizes who complex it is to frame your message over time.  On taxes being framed as an issue of patriotism:</p>
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t is an issue of patriotism! Are you paying your dues, or are you trying to get something for free at the expense of your country? It&#8217;s about being a member. People pay a membership fee to join a country club, for which they get to use the swimming pool and the golf course. But they didn&#8217;t pay for them in their membership. They were built and paid for by other people and by this collectivity. It&#8217;s the same thing with our country — the country as country club, being a member of a remarkable nation. But what would it take to make the discussion about that? Every Democratic senator and all of their aides and every candidate would have to learn how to talk about it that way. There would have to be a manual. Republicans have one. They have a guy named Frank Luntz, who puts out a 500-page manual every year that goes issue by issue on what the logic of the position is from the Republican side, what the other guys&#8217; logic is, how to attack it, and what language to use.
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<p>We need to this very carefully about every word and phrase we use, and develop a consistant language.</p>
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