GOP & Lakoff: Don't Think of An Elephant

In his book Don't Think of An Elephant, George Lakoff has a chapter about the California Recall. In it, he runs through a number of rightwing frames that came to dominate the media coverage of the campaign. And he shows how they each had some grain of truth, while also hiding a good deal as well. The two I saw as most important were the Voter Revolt and The People Beat the Politicians.

The Voter Revolt frame hides the national Republican effort over several years to make Davis look bad by hurting the California economy. It hides the fact that energy deregulation was brought in by Republican governor Pete Wilson. It ignores the fact that there was no real energy crisis. ...


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