Question: Why is George Lackoff still around? I would assume that even the liberals were laughing at him by now, but I found this link to a Chicago Tribune article about him on the DailyKos front-page. His book Don’t Think of an Elephant came out in 2004, but has reframing (giving new names to liberal crap) accomplished anything other than given Democrats some word games to play while losing elections? If it’s this easy to become a liberal prophet, them maybe I should figure a way of making some money off of it. Hmm…
Er, Frank, for the record, that is Lackoff with long a, as in Lake Off.
I looked at the Review from his books. One of his brilliant ideas is for liberals to reframe the debate and rather than calling liberal judges “judical activists” he recommends calling them “freedom judges”…
Errr…George…you really are a Lackoff and please keep giving the Rats advise!
I was actually taught by his ex-wife Robin Lakoff at UC Berkeley when I took a linguistics class back in the early 90’s. That’s George’s field, supposedly, linguistics. The TA’s for Robin’s class all rolled their eyes about his books since they felt he should have move to the poli sci department instead of becoming some “cool” celebrity prof.
he should have move to the poli sci department instead of becoming some “cool” celebrity prof.
Like Chomsky?
His best advice yet is to change perception from Moonbats to Uranusgloves.