k.e
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| Quote ("Rev Dr" Lenny Flank @ Jan. 22 2007,18:22) | | Quote (phonon @ Jan. 22 2007,18:14) | | There is this huge problem with ID and language. I think it comes from their previous battles in politics (and that's all ID boils down to, a political battle). By using the English language to swerve and argument subtly one way or the other, the debater can seemingly "win" an argument, or at least successfully preach to the choir, or even convince the gullible. |
The word for that is, I believe, "propaganda".
The fundies have been studying their Frank Luntz.
(And anyone who doesn't know who "Frank Luntz" is, should immediately go to Google and enter that name.) |
Yup 'Frank Luntz' the man who 'loves' George Orwell
....not because he was a lefty anti-facist who distrusted language itself because of its power to control the masses via the media...just the opposite in fact.
Frank Luntz seems to have given Obama his imprimatur for some reason, that almost makes me paranoid. Why would a died in the wool GOP apparatchik tip his hat to his natural enemy, in the hope that it divides the ememy?
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The conservative has but little to fear from the man whose reason is the servant of his passions, but let him beware of him in whom reason has become the greatest and most terrible of the passions.These are the wreckers of outworn empires and civilisations, doubters, disintegrators, deicides.Haldane
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