The Language Police - Welcome to USA 2005!
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http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0226-27.htm
'The Language Police: Gettin' Jiggy with Frank Luntz'
by Nancy Snow
Nancy writes:
"If you need any more confirmation that America is the numero uno propaganda nation, look no further than the GOP language meistro Frank Luntz, who has produced a memorandum of "The 14 Words Never to Use." Thanks to the Internet and the blogosphere, we mere mortals can get our grubby mitts on what the conservative elite persuader Luntz is doing to scrub our brains free of individual thoughts."
My comment: Yes, most of todays news in USA is just that: propaganda. The only way any independently thinking American can get some real factual news these days is by gettin' on-line and finding some alternative news sources or reasonable blogs. However, it seems that soon even bloggin' can get you in hot water. Rummy will make sure that even this source runs dry soon.
"Consider the first word expunged from
our memory - government. It's such a bad word to Luntz that it must
be replaced by Washington. "The fact is, most Americans appreciate
their local government that picks up their trash, cleans their
streets, and provides police and transportation services. Washington
is the problem." This is why he tells members of Congress (and their
spouses!) to remind voters that Washington is the bogey man,
Washington is the problem, Washington has regulations, Washington
taxes. Hmm. Something seems fishy here. Does this mean our own
President hates his government job in Washington? If Washington is
the problem, then why doesn't the President, who represents
Washington, just step aside and let the people rule themselves?"
My comment: yeah, right! That's actually a very sound idea! Self-government. Why do we need a president or a government at all?
"But wait, there's more! Never say privatization in reference to
social security. It evokes images of fat cats on Wall Street picking
our pockets. Reserve privatization for everything else related to the
social good and collective security (education, health care, trade,
criminal justice). The better choice is personalization and personal
accounts. This sounds like 'We The People' have more control over our
private, oops, I mean personal lives. Luntz explains: "Personalizing
Social Security suggests ownership and control over your retirement
savings, while privatizing it suggests a profit motive and winners
and losers."
My comment: That's essentially what the entire privatization of social security is: stealing people's money by a few fat cats from Wall Street. I wonder what they offered Bush in exchange? A bunker?
"Getting the picture? We need to stop using the language of what happens to real people and replace it with the language of the corporation, which has no purpose other than profit and no conscience. Luntz is particularly jiggy with trade language. He implores us to stop using "foreign" or "global" and replace it with "international." Foreign is just too scary to patriotic nativists. In his memo, "The Eleven Steps to Effective Trade Communication," he says that wordsmiths must appeal to America's greatness. "Americans love being told we're the best, that we're number one. We will do anything-ANYTHING-to remain number one, and will oppose anything that undermines our superiority. It is essential in any discussion of trade to declare that we are 'the greatest economic power in the world' and that 'we will remain the greatest economic power in the world only so long as we continue to do business with other nations.'" Anyone who opposes "international" trade should be called a "defeatist" for giving up the fight to be number one. There's just a tiny step further here to calling anyone who questions the fairness and justice of certain trade agreements as, dare I say it, "un-American" or even "anti-American."
My comment: if you point out the unfairness of trade deals with USA, you are labeled anti-American? If it carries on like this, soon you can be put to jail for voicing your opinions on American global, sorry, international trade or military policy, does not really matter which one you dare to question as they are one and the same tool of global domination.
Propaganda rules, just like it did in Germany in the days prior to WWII. Are we living in the days prior to WWIII? Hard to say with certainty, but more and more signs point that we in fact may be.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0226-27.htm
'The Language Police: Gettin' Jiggy with Frank Luntz'
by Nancy Snow
Nancy writes:
"If you need any more confirmation that America is the numero uno propaganda nation, look no further than the GOP language meistro Frank Luntz, who has produced a memorandum of "The 14 Words Never to Use." Thanks to the Internet and the blogosphere, we mere mortals can get our grubby mitts on what the conservative elite persuader Luntz is doing to scrub our brains free of individual thoughts."
My comment: Yes, most of todays news in USA is just that: propaganda. The only way any independently thinking American can get some real factual news these days is by gettin' on-line and finding some alternative news sources or reasonable blogs. However, it seems that soon even bloggin' can get you in hot water. Rummy will make sure that even this source runs dry soon.
"Consider the first word expunged from
our memory - government. It's such a bad word to Luntz that it must
be replaced by Washington. "The fact is, most Americans appreciate
their local government that picks up their trash, cleans their
streets, and provides police and transportation services. Washington
is the problem." This is why he tells members of Congress (and their
spouses!) to remind voters that Washington is the bogey man,
Washington is the problem, Washington has regulations, Washington
taxes. Hmm. Something seems fishy here. Does this mean our own
President hates his government job in Washington? If Washington is
the problem, then why doesn't the President, who represents
Washington, just step aside and let the people rule themselves?"
My comment: yeah, right! That's actually a very sound idea! Self-government. Why do we need a president or a government at all?
"But wait, there's more! Never say privatization in reference to
social security. It evokes images of fat cats on Wall Street picking
our pockets. Reserve privatization for everything else related to the
social good and collective security (education, health care, trade,
criminal justice). The better choice is personalization and personal
accounts. This sounds like 'We The People' have more control over our
private, oops, I mean personal lives. Luntz explains: "Personalizing
Social Security suggests ownership and control over your retirement
savings, while privatizing it suggests a profit motive and winners
and losers."
My comment: That's essentially what the entire privatization of social security is: stealing people's money by a few fat cats from Wall Street. I wonder what they offered Bush in exchange? A bunker?
"Getting the picture? We need to stop using the language of what happens to real people and replace it with the language of the corporation, which has no purpose other than profit and no conscience. Luntz is particularly jiggy with trade language. He implores us to stop using "foreign" or "global" and replace it with "international." Foreign is just too scary to patriotic nativists. In his memo, "The Eleven Steps to Effective Trade Communication," he says that wordsmiths must appeal to America's greatness. "Americans love being told we're the best, that we're number one. We will do anything-ANYTHING-to remain number one, and will oppose anything that undermines our superiority. It is essential in any discussion of trade to declare that we are 'the greatest economic power in the world' and that 'we will remain the greatest economic power in the world only so long as we continue to do business with other nations.'" Anyone who opposes "international" trade should be called a "defeatist" for giving up the fight to be number one. There's just a tiny step further here to calling anyone who questions the fairness and justice of certain trade agreements as, dare I say it, "un-American" or even "anti-American."
My comment: if you point out the unfairness of trade deals with USA, you are labeled anti-American? If it carries on like this, soon you can be put to jail for voicing your opinions on American global, sorry, international trade or military policy, does not really matter which one you dare to question as they are one and the same tool of global domination.
Propaganda rules, just like it did in Germany in the days prior to WWII. Are we living in the days prior to WWIII? Hard to say with certainty, but more and more signs point that we in fact may be.
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