Translating Conservativespeak: Freedom, Liberty and the Liberal Elite

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

For the past six years George W. Bush has had a way with words. He has created an interesting conception of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxmPjB0WSs">freedom and http://www.aclu.org/safefree/nsaspying/27379prs20061114.html">liberty. Liberals and progressives cringe when he uses these words, because we know what they really represent in the radical conservative lexicon is http://www.iraqbodycount.org/">death, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9287434/">destruction and http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/ecouncil/ec02272006e.cfm">exploitation. This has led many of us to proclaim what we have never proclaimed before: if this is http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/03/19/iraq.children/index.html">liberation, we don’t want to be liberated!

More at: http://progressiveamericanpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/04/translating-conservativespeak-freedom.html

[bobthedrummer]

1. Consider this when characterizing the conceptual framework of the BFEE newspeak

"Reframing Perception-Space (P-Space): A Quick Overview of a Unifying Concept"
by Col. Michael McKim USAFR (ret)
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc/reframing-p-space.htm

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

2. I'll take a look

My favorite author on political framing is George Lakoff. He is a genius when it comes to the linguistics of politics. Read Whose Freedom if you haven't already. My article wasn't really a linguistic analysis, so much as a quick break down of the insanity.

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

3. kick n/t