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Politics : Sioux Nation
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To: SiouxPal who wrote (14971)4/29/2005 8:38:03 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) of 361168
 
Is George Bush faking his verbal disfluency?

This is a question that's been debated by the likes of Atlantic Monthly's James Fallows, the Rockridge Institute's George Lakoff and others.

Here's a well written article on the topic.
itre.cis.upenn.edu

I find that I'm in agreement with George Lakoff, if I understand the Lakoff position correctly. In other words, Bush has modeled his language on what focus group wonks like Frank Luntz have told Bush would be effective emotional communication.

Democrats want intellectual content when they are in an audience. Thus we get very articulate speeches from the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry.

But that is, by and large, not the language that most Americans want to hear. That's why the Republicans are so much better than Democrats in communicating the raw, red-meat issues (no matter how deceitfully) to the American public.

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In brief, if you go back to Bush's 1994 gubernatorial debate with Ann Richards, Bush is presenting what is probably much more characteristic language to him in the privacy of his own office. What is presented to the public today on TV is simply a very manipulative man posing as a NASCAR type "good ol' boy" for the sake of creating empathy among the great preponderance of Americans who are not members of the corporate or policy elite and don't think at a high intellectual level.
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