‘The Little Blue Book’: Secrets From the Radical New Book that Van Jones & George Soros Just Love
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George Lakoff, a professor of cognitive science and linguistics at U.C. Berkeley and a well-known Democrat strategist, and Elizabeth Wehling, a graduate student and one of Lakoff’s researchers, recently published a book that is being called a “game-changer“ and a ”precious gift” to progressives, titled The Little Blue Book: The Essential Guide to Thinking and Talking Democratic.
But before we tell you anything about it, the book’s highlighted reviews should be an indication of what you’re getting into:
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Zombie at PJ Media sarcastically responded to Blades’ comment: “Because everybody knows that the best way to convince undecided and conservative voters is to dazzle them with compliments you got from Van Jones and George Soros.”
Having read the entire work, Zombie has more information:
Before you even open the book, its sly self-referential gamesmanship leaps off the cover: the very title itself is a wink-wink-nudge-nudge ironic-but-not-really reference to Chairman Mao’s Little Red Book, the kind of hidden-meaning secret message that progressives like to call a “dog whistle,” although they insist that only conservatives resort to such underhanded gambits.
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But Lakoff is not just any intellectual celebrity: he is deemed one of the most important contemporary philosophers of progressive thought. You know how whenever Democrats lose an election, they invariably blame their “poor messaging” and never ever the content of their policies? Lakoff came up with that. Liberals find it very reassuring: We don’t need to rethink our ideas — we just need to express ourselves more clearly.
As a linguist, Lakoff focuses on the notions of “cognitive frames” and “conceptual metaphors,” which refer to the overarching filters through which each person perceives the world ... The Little Blue Book is Lakoff’s attempt to transform his high-minded theories into nuts-and-bolts instructions for how all Democrats — from the White House to the drum circle and everything in between — should speak to conservatives, undecideds and the media. [All emphasis added]
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Another one of Lakoff’s instructions that you have probably encountered, though never fully understood, is the order to “use your own language; never use your opponent’s language.”
On page 43, he writes: “Be aware of what you believe and repeat it loud over and over; never repeat ideas you don’t believe in, even if you are arguing against them.” This mantra even comes in at number one on Lakoff’s list of “The 10 Most Important Things Democrats Should Know.”
Similar to Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals,” the fingerprints of Lakoff’s advice are seemingly on the framework of almost every political debate, whether the participants are aware of it or not.
For instance, it doesn’t matter that Republicans have been arguing that a baby is a baby, whether it is in the womb or not, for decades. Today, you will rarely hear someone who is in favor of abortion refer to the baby as anything but a “fetus.” They typically use the words “reproductive rights” or “a woman’s right to choose” to re-frame the debate from whether a baby is being killed to whether a woman has “reproductive rights,” never responding to the argument that a baby is involved.
Similarly, you can try to explain to a group of “Occupiers” why taxing the rich won’t help them land a job, but all you will likely leave with is an earful of how Wall Street is “greedy” and how people are being exploited.
Another one of Lakoff’s main “themes” is that conservatives embody, essentially, an abusive father household, and that leftists embody a welcoming one where both parents make decisions together. Referencing a book from 1970, Lakoff reportedly writes that “the role of the mother [in the idealized conservative family] is to uphold the authority of the father. If she does not, she may have to be disciplined as well.”
And this is where, according to Zombie, Lakoff’s ideas “backfire:”
There’s a new frame in town: The nanny state. In a masterful maneuver of political aikido, conservatives have taken Lakoff’s antediluvian “strict father conservatism” frame and completely reversed it. Conservatism now stands for freedom from authority, while is it progressivism that seeks to implement the new scolding parent metaphor, now known as the “nanny state.” It’s liberals who want to tell you what to do and what is allowed, not conservatives.
And this frame is widely accepted by the general public not simply because of superior conservative messaging, but because there is evidence backing it up. It is mostly liberal politicians, not conservative politicians, who pass laws and regulations telling citizens what they can and cannot do, what they must and must not buy, what they are and are not allowed to say.
Who seeks to impose the “strict parent” paradigm now? Liberals. And everyone knows it. Yet still there’s George Lakoff off by his lonesome still pounding his fists about “strict father conservatives.” All the rhetoric in the world can’t hide the fact that conservatism now stands for unintrusive small government, and that progressivism stands for intrusive big government. The “nanny state” frame is so powerful and self-evidently true that it can’t be ignored away, and can’t be euphemized away.
So what’s up next from this linguistic “Jedi” of the left?
Apparently, he issues a set of recommendations on how progressives should approach a number of policy issues each chapter, and is hankering to re-claim the word “liberty.”
Rather than engage in a debate on socialism versus capitalism, Lakoff urges leftists to say something along the lines of: “This debate is about liberty from corporate government and corporate meddling in our lives,” or, “The laissez-faire market limits your personal liberty.”
Lakoff speaks at an 'Authors@Google' event in New York in 2008 (Photo: Screen Shot/YouTube)
But what is most surprising (and disturbing) for those on the right, is that Lakoff seems to actually believe that if you just come up with the right “label” or euphemism, reality itself will change around it.
Progressives have a history of changing the language of the debate, but are they now starting to believe that reality and right-and-wrong are actually malleable, if phrased with the right argument?
Zombie explains:
As a layperson, an outsider, I have always assumed that a new label doesn’t change the intrinsic nature of what is being labeled. Thus, I could take a can of beans, peel off its label and replace it with a label that says “Cherries,” but that doesn’t mean the contents of the can suddenly transform into cherries; it remains beans, regardless of what the label says.
But Lakoff seems to be saying, throughout The Little Blue Book, that when you slap a new label — or euphemism, or “conceptual metaphor” or “moral frame” or whatever you want to call it — on an idea, that this somehow transforms the idea itself and people’s opinions about it. “I don’t like new taxes,” says Average Joe. “These aren’t taxes — they’re a Deficit Reduction Bonanza!” Lakoff might say. “A Deficit Reduction Bonanza? Why didn’t you say so earlier? Sounds great! Where do I sign up?”
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Lakoff endlessly argues that liberals need to come up with better “narratives” and “frames,” but then simultaneously acts like those new narratives and frames are factually true, that the new way of describing something somehow changed its nature.
The few “average” people who have reviewed the book on Amazon so far seem to reflect Lakoff’s contribution to the political discourse.
While a seemingly conservative reviewer wrote that the book is “comedy gold” and “pure political propaganda,” another solemnly said:
I found this book to be very informative on the differences between progressive and [conservative] political viewpoints. It not only explained the different ideologies in a straightforward manner, but also gave the reasons why one person would be attracted to one side over the other.
Of course, this reviewer possibly now thinks that conservatives encourage abusive families, and want to somehow translate that abuse to a national scale.
And the cycle continues.
If you want to read more of Zombie’s take on the “Little Blue Book,” read the rest of his article (titled “Quotations from Chairman Lakoff”), here.
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Comments (200)
RajCaj
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:12pmAlso funny how liberals decry business folk (marketers) for “manipulating” the public, using sophisticated psychology tactics on the “dumb masses”…….but liberals “coaching” other liberals on how to use psychology to “tweak” their message for the perceived “dumb masses” is okay.
Report Post »CARS60
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:12pmWhen I grew up ‘reframing’ in this context means LYING.
Report Post »LS1XJ
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:09pmI am going to get this book and then try some of these tricks to pick up women in bars. Anyone with ears and a brain that works can see through the BS
Report Post »JRook
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:57am“All the rhetoric in the world can’t hide the fact that conservatism now stands for unintrusive small government, and that progressivism stands for intrusive big government.” Really… Senator Charles J. Fuschillo Jr., a Long Island Republican who sponsored the bill in the Senate, Senator Robert Singer, R-Monmouth, Ocean, lauds the Senate Health, Human Services and Senior Citizens Committee’s passage today of his bipartisan tanning bill, State Representative Courtney Combs is a Republican from Hamilton who introduced the bill. He says tanning beds can cause skin cancer and other problems…..
historyguy48
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:19pmComrade you have missed the point. All of your examples are Progressive Republicans and their really isn’t any difference whatsoever between a Progressive Democrat or a Progressive Republican! The D word and R word are both irrelivant, it is the P word that tells you their belief in the glories of world communism!
Like Mao’s “Little Red Book” this book will allow you to phrase your answers correctly so you can avoid, or win, any argument with those less mentally capable.
Of course the fact that it makes you sound like you are brain dead is merely a side benefit of being a follower of Karl Marx. Thinking isn’t their long suit, but being in touch with their feelings is!
So what I’m really saying is that a bunch of brain dead zombies are winning the battle of words because most Americans are even stupider than they are!
I wonder why the founding fathers didn’t want a Democracy? After all this would all have been over before the Civil War if they had gone that way! But don’t worry, Kings and Princes are the norm, not the exception! And guess who has the guns when Kings and Princes rule?
I’ll give you three guesses!
NHwinter
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:41pmTime to put out the “Little White Book” that contains the truths of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Pass it out to everyone on street corner, stores, concerts, historic sites, etc. Its time we counter all the propaganda the Progressives/Communists seem to be so good at spreading. Fight fire with fire. I’ve had enough of this crap shoved in our faces and corrupting our youth and the vulnerable.
Verceofreason
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:15pmWRONG.
Conservatism stands for the right to pollute and put unsafe food and products on the market.
And low wages and unsafe working conditions.
The ‘small government’ thing is just a cover for Tea Party rubes.
Wake up.
CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:15pmRamble much?
“causes skin cancer and other problems”… like schizophrenia?
hugecatfish
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:21pmTo JRook:
You are correct, sir. BUT, the quote clearly refers to conservatives, not republicans. The ones you’ve referred to are progressives – and as you’ve pointed out are very dangerous. They are not conservatives. This is why a lot of republicans don’t want to be associated with groups such as the TEA Party. This is very important to understand.
ISRAELISOURFRIEND
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:23pmThe little blue book for people that can’t think. So this book helps think for them.
Good luck SOROS…
You may be uber rich, but you’re still an idiot!
God will strike you down with the devils that played your flesh all your sick pathetic life!!!!!!
iampraying4u
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:30pmThe blue book and the red book will both end up in the lake of fire
Silversmith
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:52pmJrook That is hardly a damning story for conservative America. This book is clearly just about marketing. Repackage and spin and maybe you’ll get a few more takers, but I doubt it. Most of us know now that “New and Improved” is a fiction. So it will go with these new “frames”. New label for the same old story.
Silversmith
The_Jerk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:53pmIn George Lakoff, Noam Chomsky’s Jewish, progressive, seeds are blossoming. How long does it take to understand where the problem begins? Marx? Alinsky? Piven? Sunstein? Stern?… Axelrod? Lew? Steinberg? Plouffe? Summers? Emanuel? Bernstein?… Orszag? Zients?… Bernanke?… Kagan? Ginsburg? Breyer?… Soros????
US-First
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 2:25pmThe problem with your argument is that tanning beds have always been under federal and state policy to operate. If the government does not restrict the use of these devices that clearly have been implicated in cancer, the federal government will have huge legal battles from cancer patients wanting reparations for their illness. Health Care Insurance was a cart not pulled by the federal government horse in the name of the people. Obama care has connected the horse to the cart. As have so many other policies he has implemented. Hopefully we can disconnect them before they get moving.
rickc34
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 2:32pmSo how to lie without really seeming like your lying to a group of immoral individuals and get them to agree and vote for you. Is this guy Satan in the flesh, Satan the father of lies.
MichiganPatriot
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 2:45pmVerceofreason You said “Conservatism stands for the right to pollute and put unsafe food and products on the market.” That is untrue, I love how people make crap up. The free market is based on product performance, you make quality stuff and people will always buy from you. Making food unsafe or products unsafe is not in the best interest of the conservative world. It is on the other hand the byproduct of those who have no regard for human life such as baby killing liberals.
You also said “And low wages and unsafe working conditions.” The US conservative industrialist have pioneered and made work environments the best on the planet. As an engineer I travel all over the world and see factories of all kinds. The united states has the safest factories and the most regulation than any other nation on the planet. Your conclusion I know for a fact to be a lie or bad data…recheck your sources.
You also said “The ‘small government’ thing is just a cover for Tea Party rubes. Wake up.” You must be drinking Progressive koolaid or something because our nation was founded on the basis of small government for a reason, because our founder knew that big government always turns on the people as ours is currently doing. Socialism, Democracy and Communism is a joke and has never worked ever throughout history…it has failed every single time. Democracy is mob rule and it never ends well. Why do you think lynch mobs are illegal?
shackero
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 3:02pmYour examples are valid, but do not tell the whole story. The debate of more vs. less government was central to our founding fathers decision to divide the 3 branches of government into coequal entities. The argument was also central to the “numerated” powers given to the federal government—–look at the 10 Amendments; the common theme is to protect the people from an overreaching government.
1st Amendment: Protects speech and religious freedoms (protected from an overreaching government).
2nd Amendment: Gives the people recourse if the government becomes oppressive and unresponsive.
3rd Amendment protects us from being forced to house military members in our houses…
4th Amendment: Protects us from the government searching our property/house without warrant.
5th Amendment: Sets out rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, protects the right to due process, and prohibits self-incrimination and double jeopardy—again, protected from government.
6th Amendment: Right to speedy public trial, the right to counsel.
7th Amendment: right to trial by jury of piers (not a trial judged by government officials).
8th Amendment: The right to bail, protection from excessive fines, and protection from cruel and unusual punishment.
9th Amendment: Protects rights not enumerated in the constitution.
10th Amendment: Limits the powers of the federal government to those delegated to it by the Constitution. This is the catch-all designed to limit the federal govern
shackero
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 3:23pm——>cont
As you can see Verceofreason,
The very purpose of the Constitution along with the division of powers is designed to protect us from an overreaching government. Unfortunatly, the Amendments to the Constitution have been under assault since they were ratified by congress—-The Republican party and the Democrat party is both responsible the erosion of the original intent of the Constitution. My opinion is that the only political party that supports the Constitution is the Libertarian Party. Unfortunately, the powers-that-be are in control, and the good-ol’-boy network in DC is intact…… and we the people are divided………
My opinion is that the average citizen has much more in common than not—–we all love our families and just want to be left alone to pursue our own happiness (whatever it is). Bottom line is that THERE IS NO UTOPIA, there is only the never-ending struggle for freedom; and without the struggle, we will surely become subjects of the state—-it is the natural progression for freedom to erode as government grows…………
Crazyotto
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 4:29pmYou don’t get it … the progressives are all about labels, rhetoric, feelings, and no substance… they do not consider self reliance, accepting responsibility, sacrifice, duty, honor and commitment (all components of Liberty and Freedom) as being worthwhile concepts….. Just because someone puts an R next to his name doesn’t mean they believe in these concepts either. just look at Chris Christie, Mitt Romney or even George Bush.. Most Republicans (progressives) believe in only maintaining power. all recent Presidents The Bush’s, Clinton’s and now Barry have been pretty much the same…
The_Jerk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 4:31pmKnightlight78, you are so correct. It is getting old, and we are losing our freedoms to this Jewish movement for an international kibbutz. It is time to call a spade a spade. Treatment can only come when one identifies the etiology. Remember, there are no individual rights in a kibbutz, commune, communism.
I’ve given to you but a fraction of the names… facts, not sentiment.
The_Jerk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 4:34pmShackero, “My opinion is that the average citizen has much more in common than not… .”
Half of the citizenry has much in common. The other half are freeloading on the fruits of their labor.
M13
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 4:45pmYou people are fools for even responding to jrook. All he does is lie and twist facts to support his outright lies.
Knightlight78
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 5:29pm@The _Jerk
So all Jews are Kibbutzniks now? Wait… Communists? There wasn‘t a lot of love for the Jews among the communists back then and there sure isn’t now. Jews, of course, aren’t the only Communists (statistically, they’re only a small percentage of Communists), they’re just visible Communists if you’re a Jew hater. Are you aware that there are Capitalist Jews out there? Is it also their secret agenda to turn the world into a global Kibbutz like their Communist Jewish brothers?
Now let me make this clear, since you know nothing about Judaism – No matter how many Jews are on the Left (and Jews are, unforgivably, still drawn there), the Left understands that Judaism in the abstract stands for individualism and justice, two notions antithetical to collectivism, therefor your conclusion that Jew=Communist=Marxist and so on is fundamentally twisted and wrong.
Have a nice life Jerk.
Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 6:49pmDon’t feed the trolls! They are here in force now. Trying to sidetrack the conversation.
PATTY HENRY
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 7:03pmNO, dumbkopf… YOU GUYS own the PROGRESSIVE mantras …your Hillary, Billery, Kerry (throw up) , Obama is not on the list because he’s a Communist; McCain might have had progressivism rub off on him, same for Bush’s…but they are so much more decent than any Dem I’ve ever met, heard, seen… so ROMNEY is NOT a PROGRESSIVE…but good try creeps…you are trying to paint him with every lying brush stroke you can try to smear him with. HE’S not saying a word… keep on smearing… soon even you will run out of lies and then the Conventions….THEN
THE
DEBATES
and your lying, smearing, Communist, Marxists, Muslim Trojan Horse, Socialist, arrogant jerk who conned his way into the White House won’t know what hit him. A real man, a REAL PATRIOT, a REAL LEADER is going to clean his clock.
All the GOP has to do for two months is play clips of one after another after another of Obama lies.
So enjoy your ‘lead’ right now…however a 2 point lead in a 3.5 + or – with 15% undecided are odds I’ll take any day of the week.
MAMMY_NUNN
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 7:37pm@ verceofreason
Conservatism stands for the right to pollute and put unsafe food and products on the market.
And low wages and unsafe working conditions. That is all well and good when the left forces all of those mentioned to relocate and be produced by foreign sources which don’t have are health and safety or security in mind.
jzs
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 9:02pmThis reminds me of the conservative wordmaster Frank Luntz who “frequently tests word and phrase choices using focus groups and interviews. His stated purpose in this is the goal of causing audiences to react based on emotion. “80 percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Luntz
A great example of Luntz’ approved words is “job creators” as a synonym for the super rich. “Job creators” sounds nice and makes some sense on an intuitive level. The term suggests that rich people create jobs, rather than the reality that middle and lower class people with disposable income -money to spend – drive job creation.
Of course the obvious fact that is that if consumers don’t have money to spend, no rich person is going to open a new pizza joint or whatever, and hire people and “create jobs.“ And of course the ultimate supporter of ”job creators,” George Bush, by dramatically cutting taxes mostly for the richest Americans, should have resulted in job creation. But it didn’t. In fact job creation under Bush was probably the worst in American history:
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/01/09/bush-on-jobs-the-worst-track-record-on-record/
Still the word “job creator” as a synonym for zillionaires has traction with many Americans, although it’s clearly false. When the average American has money jobs are created, not when the richest
ashestoashes
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 9:36pmWhen everyone understands..which I doubt highly that most are capable of understanding..JUDAISM is NOT ZIONISM.. and yes Israel presented a bill to make it illegal to draw comparisons to NAZISM..HELLO?!..
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/israeli-bill-would-outlaw-comparisons-to-nazis/
This is how the real Jews feel about the Zionists..it is a real eye opener..
http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/differencejudzion.html
This seems to be where they got their start with Israel..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vw9Qm_TejCo&skipcontrinter=1&bpctr=1341885893&skipcontrinter=1
TomFerrari
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 9:31amRemember one word: lawyers
They are trained & literally professionals at arguing opposite sides of a coin.
They cease to differentiate right from wrong. They see only one coin and their objective, at any cost, is to win the toss of the coin.
Steeped in Marxism at our socialist universities. The very one WE pay for. The ones they defend. The ones they DEMAND more access to. [sic]
tzion
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:32am@Jerk
You really don’t know anything about Judaism or the kibbutz movement. While the kibbutz is a socialist commune, its very nature is the antithesis of the whole NWO that communists seek to create. On a modern kibbutz (there have been some radical cult-like ones in the past) anyone can come and go as they please and in many cases those that leave are given some money by the community for them to get started with. A typical kibbutz functions as either a self-sufficient community or as a small firm. I personally visited a kibbutz that actually operates within the capitalist markets by selling what they produce (I believe it involved algae in some way). The only difference is they choose to pool the profits into a communal fund instead of distributing it on an individual basis.
The most important difference between a kibbutz and the NWO systems though is that while the communist model requires a totalitarian government to enforce it, the kibbutz has no government to enforce anything. Rather, the community polices itself.
tzion
Posted on July 10, 2012 at 10:40am@Ashes
What you have indicated isn’t a part of Zionism or Judaism, but rather is evidence of a fundamental flaw in Israel’s political system. The Israeli system is essentially a copy of the European system, being almost identical to that used currently by Britain, and practically the same as that used by Germany under the Wiemar Republic. Israel, while democratic, uses a voting system that focuses on parties and not candidates. In addition, Israel has no written constitution defining the limits and functions of government nor does it possess any means to prevent the tyranny of the majority. None of this is surprising when one considers that most of the original founders were European.
Ex-Democrat
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:56amIf you know and understand the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and I mean, REALLY understand them, there is NO rhetoric, language, or “parlor-game” tactic that the left could possible come up with to defeat a true conservative argument. Truth and knowledge is power.
If you feel that you don’t understand them as well as you should, there is an excellent and free online course at the Hillsdale College web site you can sign up for.
http://www.hillsdale.edu/
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:03pm@Ex-Democrat
Excellent link!
Redwood Elf
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:08pmWhat I wanna know is, how does the DEMOCRAT party manage to be represented by BLUE as a color? They’re Redder than the Red Chinese for cryin out loud!
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:16pm@Redwood Elf
In the US, red stands for Republican and blue stands for Democrat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_states_and_blue_states
Redwood Elf
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:30pmThat’s my point…it SHOULD be the other way around. “Red” is the color of socialism and communism, which is the DEMOCRAT philosophy.
historyguy48
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:53pmComrade is that like “green is the new red”? Does it matter? Most Americans haven’t read a book since high school, or, at best, college. While most Americans that read books tend to read Romances or action adventure type stories that are relatively brainless. Of course right now books about Vampires and Zombies are selling well although books about real history aren’t.
Have you figured out yet how the Marxists are winning the fight?
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:54pm@Redwood Elf
I agree. I think they choose blue to further the distance themselves from being associated as the commies they are.
Wayner
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:55pmVerseofreason.. And just what makes you think you are going to get a seat at the top in the Animal Farm hierarchy?? You’ll probably wind up with the rest of us peons using a pick axe or shovel in the “equality” for all system.
Tom70
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:56amWhy do these creeps escape from the law of sedition? One constantly is preaching forment and the other pays for it.
blackyb
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:20pmDink and Donk. Some people ruin their lives because they got a little education and not the whole picture. They shuck and jive from then on out. This is what you have. Soros and Jones, Dink and Donk, Shuck and Jive. Nice suits to impress those in the black community where they steal the Truth, dignity, wealth, peace and hope from. These people use words of trickery to divide and pollute. Instead of teaching the youth to build, the teach them hate and to tear down, to mock their parents, the true Church, to follow after the fringe groups who try to impress the youth with rhetoric and filth. Well, put this down in your little “blue book.” You and that little blue book is a map from hell where you will return when the dealing’s done and then you can try to impress the devil with how evil you have been on this earth. Your gain will be naught in the end for your souls will be in torment where no doubt they deserve to be.
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:55amI wonder what the 4 stars on the cover stands for?
Any ideas out there?
RLTW
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:24pmSSSS: Socialism, Slavery, Secularism and Serfdom.
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:55pm@RLTW
Nice point. Thanks for the laugh….
Verceofreason
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:17pmSerfdom?
Oh honey, have you gots the shoes on the wrong foots.
Call me to complain when you’re working 7 days a week for minimum wage as the Scott WAlkers and Chris Christies are championing.
Fubared
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:25pmVerce
Add more vodka to that koolaide and enjoy yourself on the way out at least. Honey bunny.
CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:54amInsidious little people. No wonder conservatives have trouble arguing with these evil people. We don’t even think this way, (how to brainwash others). I need to re-read my copy of “Arguing with Idiots”
JRook
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:08pm“This debate is about liberty from corporate government and corporate meddling in our lives” Which at the end of the day has always been the issue. Do some research people as to who’s lobbyists are promoting regulations and government spending on food stamps, continuation of our useless wars….. You delude yourselves by blaming everything on the government, full knowing that our government is bought and paid for by the wealthy and large corporations. You think the oil industry really cares about clean water, you think the plastic industry really cares about the Texas sized area of waste in the Pacific ocean. You think the food industry cares about the effects the hormones and drugs it shoots up animals with has on people. You really think the bankers care about the country or the average person. The Chairman and CEO of Barclays Bank should be sentenced for life in prison for knowingly defrauding the world through manipulation of LIBOR. And what do the commenters here do. Well those paid by corporations through Lobbyist and PR firms present lame attempts to debunk the facts and present the wealthy and corporations as victims. You are pathetic.
MisesLibertarian
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:02pm@JROOK
You’re just a step away from having it right. You are absolutely correct that there is rampant corporatism, meaning a collusion between government and corporations for their mutual benefit. Companies like GM, Chrysler and GE come to mind, in recent history. Dwight Eisenhower rightly spoke againt the military-industrial complex being a significant threat to our liberty. But this can only exist because government influence has grown way beyond anything useful, and certainly far beyond the bounds set forth in the Constitution. Human greed is an unfortunate reality, and left to their own devices, some few may find the moral turpitude to prey on others. But in a land where the rule of law, and here I refer to civil law, is given preeminence then injury is correctly redressed, and corporations pay appropriate penalites. Government regulations are not intended to safeguard the public, but simply to give one corporation or business sector advantage over another. Government is not the answer, and if you would take the final step and rail against government injustices in the same way you rail against corporate injustice, I think you might be on to something.
Lord_Frostwind
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:02pmYour argument Jrook falls flat on its face with exactly what you said. The problem isn’t corporations, corporations have absolutely zero true power over us. To put it simply, the corporations lack the most important power in the ability to control our lives, enforcement. However, because our government is corrupt, and since some of the CEO’s are also progressive, the two get in bed and spawn all sorts of horror.
Lobbyists are merely a symptom of the bigger problem we have with our government. The fact that any corporation has to hire lobbyists just to try and keep out of the governments crosshairs (see Microsoft, before the antitrust debacle) is a sign of just how far we have let government intrude into our lives.
You say that all the corporations care about is money, well duh! I trust someone who is honest about what they want a lot more than all these smug idealists who pretend to care about people but are either lunatics or really just want power. And at least the corporations keep people working.
CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:05pmRookie,
Pathetic maybe, but koolaid free.
Eagle_Eye_1970
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 3:38pmJROOK…..The problem is people like yourself are quick to point to the private sector as the problem, that they are buying the politicians and paying for them to make laws in the favor of said “evil corporation”, but what of the Politician that takes the bribe…and how about the ill informed people that put these politicians into position to sell their constituents down the river along with their very own souls? So is it corporate greed, or the greed of the Politician…AKA government? I would have to argue that it is the later of the two. An ill informed public is all that is needed to turn a Democratic Republic into a Democracy…truly a sad thing indeed. So let’s say we talk about the problem from now on instead of the symptom shall we? I guess the problem with that is that it is easy to blame the evil private sector, because nobody wants to admit that they had anything to do with their own demise by voting for these progressive idiots, so it looks like you are safe to spread your disease of the hatred of Capitalism and Free Markets…until November that is!! One more thing, unlike many of the other conservative websites that I am sure you troll around…we here are VERY well read and actually talk from research…not talking points from someone elses agenda, idiology, or blog.
762x51
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 8:15pmThere is no reason to argue OR reason with liberals. They are incapable of either because they lack independent thought. They are the Borg and should be dealt with accordingly. They will not stop their enslavement of America unless we stop them by force of arms.
we must not comply with their rules, We must not obey their laws, we must not fund their agendas, we must never surrender. Once they collapse the economy, part of their end game, we must attack and destroy them wherever they are found. No quarter, no prisoners, war is forced upon us.
forthepeople
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:51amAlways scheming to achieve goals, why can’t they just be ( real ) themselves ?
Gonzo
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:07pmYou know why. If they stated who they really are and what they really want, the American people would denounce them. So they use semantics to parse their words and identities.
docgreen
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:15pmFYI, Look what Irans saying now!
http://www.wnd.com/2012/07/iran-leader-we-must-prep-for-end-of-times/
Gonzo
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:36pmThanks Doc. If you‘ve never read ’The Islamic Antichrist’ you should.
RLTW
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:51amRight after the election many book stores had a little blue book of ozombie’s speeches; we know this type of propaganda is not new.
All we need to remember is every wholesome virtue they attempt to highjack is linked to the idea of collectivism, true individual liberty is a threat to their ideology.
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:51amThose on the left completely ignore the conservative argument, and instead “reframe” the issue with metaphors like “freedom of choice” and “women’s independence” and “reproductive rights.” All those positive words — “freedom,” “independence,” “rights” — recast the entire debate in a different light, allowing liberals to “win” the debate by not acknowledging that the opposing side has even made a statement.
So tired of this tactic. It should really be insulting to THE ENTIRE NATION that we are just dumbos that fall for positive language. It should really be insulting to any Leftest voter base. They insult their own constituents moreso. Not bc lack of intelligence (it’s what Prog. Leaders think it is) on anyone that entertains this BS but for a multitude of other irrationalities.
sWampy
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:01pmThe left’s tactics only work on idiots, that is why 50 years ago, they took over public schools, and 40 years ago changed from education to “outcome based education.” Outcome based education is as far from eduction as social justice is from justice.
oldasdirt
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:50amIf We The People get our country back in 2012,the first thing to do is end the UN,and then stop all plans by the Agenda21 crowd. Stop any and all regulations from the green agenda people.
CABERNETQHS
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:59amI’m with ya!
ricckky
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:49amThe “Blue Book” is the liar-n-chief’s Bible!!! Sneaky, slimy and despicable!!!
jamesctheman
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:48amI thought this was something Saul Alinski already built the blueprint for. So now Mr. Lakoff’s idea is to take that messaging & package it into a liguistical tone that benefits the progressives? Well Mr. Lakoff, a picture is worth a thousand words. So everytime a liberal uses a mediocore line their politics I just pull out my debt clock app & show it to them. I let them know that last 5 trillion belongs to Obama. You can thank him for it later & walk away. They’re more pissed off when you do that then engaging in their fruitless debate on subjects that they will never change their mind on. Use the little blus book & I’ll use my app & we’ll see who has the better arguement come November.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:46amThey follow the old communist line: wink-nudge-shove and then (which they are about to use) which is SHOOT!
Walkabout
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:29pmWhat is the same about Lakokk & Chomsky?
The are both linguists by training.
They both think that as linguists they have everything figured out.
Never mind that they don’t have the experience of a farmer, production manager, law enforcement officer, soldier, or engineer.
What about being a linguist thinks that you are better than a religious scholar, physicist & psychologist all rolled into one?
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:45amAnother one of Lakoff’s instructions that you have probably encountered, though never fully understood, is the order to “use your own language; never use your opponent’s language.” On page 43, he writes: “Be aware of what you believe and repeat it loud over and over; never repeat ideas you don’t believe in, even if you are arguing against them.”
Bill Mahers and other Uber Lefties favorite tactic. Repeat it LOUDLY and REPITITIOUSLY.
Al Gator
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:03pmStop and ask yourself, commies NEVER do anything randomly. There is ALWAYS a subliminal message.
You think they called it the LITTLE BLUE BOOK for no reason? If you think that, you are a serious part of the problem.
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 10:37pmDon’t know where you got your conclusions about what I said from a portion of the written piece to my one comment after that to prompt your rant about Little Red/Blue books but Good Luck to you AL GATOR lol
Al Gator
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:16pmLOL
Freedomis:
The posting constraints on this board are awful. I wasn’t ranting about anything you said. In fact I agree with much of what you said.
I simply used your post as a spring board to unload on all the bozos who once spurned the notion that there really was a communist conspiracy, and now make out like this is all new and THEY are the ones who found out about it.
But back to my main point, the Birch society’s bible was called the Little Blue Book. I still have mine.
If you read through it, it clearly defines the mission and methodology used by the left dating back to the 19th century.
That the lefties now pen their “Little Blue Book” as a road map for bigger things, is a finger in the eye of those who ratted them out half a century ago. Only a few remember that they would froth at the mouth at the mention of JBS and that Little Blue Book.
Lefties are deep on symbolism, like BeeHOe scratching his forehead with his middle finger aimed clearly at Hillary. They just can’t resist childish digs like reusing the name of the book they hated so much.
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:43amWe don’t need to rethink our ideas — we just need to express ourselves more clearly.
Yes, bc America is on a whole deaf and dumb and you Uber Lefties can never be wrong so God forbid you rethink anything. Sure thing. No wonder TV has gotten louder (ie commercials, shows etc). They think we cannot hear and, thereby, ingest their BS. And then they insult us (as a nation) when we ignore their BS. Pundits like Maher and Stewart.
Al Gator
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:00pm@ Freedom:
“We don’t need to rethink our ideas — we just need to express ourselves more clearly.”
Oh we did. My LITTLE BLUE BOOK was produced by the John Birch society. It CLEARLY defined what as going on and the danger that ignoring it presented.
I preached that message once, no one, no one at all, had ears to listen. Instead, Birchers were ALWAYS castigated (most fervently by so-called conservatives) as “kooks”, “nuts”, “racists”, “bigots” and tin foil hat types who “saw a commie under every bed.” (psssst! there were!)
Now, all we hear is this stupid “BUT WHO KNEW?”
Sorry, I took too much of a beating from morons who were more worried about how they were seen by the public than they were with the message.
Now, I don’t care any more. I was 20 years ahead of the lemming pack then and I’m still 20 years ahead of them today. Want to know why? Scrounge up a copy of THE LITTLE BLUE BOOK, the original and find out that we are now living in the middle of what was foreseen waaayyy back then.
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:42amIf you’re sensitive to picking up on subliminal input you will notice that all the younger progressives on the MSM shows are changing the “way” they talk.
They are spreading their mouths wider, right to left, and holding their tongues higher in the mouth. This gives them a slight lisp that subliminally draws one away from looking in their eyes and to their mouths. They are being trained to do this on purpose. IMHO
I’ve been noticing this for about a year now and they are getting better at it. They are not only being told what to say but, how to say it.
momrules
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:52amI have not noticed that Monk but will watch for it. I have noticed how the liberals always smirk, smile and laugh their way through discussions about very serious topics though. Since I personally know liberals who do the same thing I believe it is taught behavior too.
The-Monk
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:10pm@momrules
It’s mainly the younger crowd. The “old dogs” like Ed Schultz and Al Sharpton aren’t doing it.
TheGrtDcptn
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 7:44pmPerhaps the lisps are natural, afterall, don‘t all ’snakes’ have forked tongues…?!?!
*wink*…
contkmi
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:40amEven with this book, lib/progressive/socialist arguments will not be logical nor good for the country.
Bum thrower
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:40amLiberals, Socialists, Progressives, or what ever they call themselves can’t tell the truth or people would recoil away. That is why the lie, twist, double speek, and anything to keep from being exposed as to what their true intentions are……control over the lives of as many as they can subjugate…
BlazingBlonde
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 3:51pmSome of them need this sort of book, as they are ineffectual liars, so the “How To Lie, For Dummies” has been written…. I wonder how many of the books have been bought in bulk by certain agencies and groups for mass distribution.
Parents of college students, check the bookbags and shelves for this little liars guide.
Isnt it special that democrats and leftists and progressives must use obfuscation to hide their message.
I wonder what these people teach their children about lying. I wonder how they feel when their children lie to them as easy as eating a piece of apple pie… meh, they probably grow up to be lawyers.
bobbyjoe
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:40amYea, take the “blue pill” and go back to a life of fantasy.
momrules
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:38amWhat this book seems to be is another instruction manuel on how to lie, lie bigger and then lie louder.
Xiccarph
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 12:14pmGuess Obama must have read this thing a couple hundred times then. Got it down to an art!
RETIREDUSAFDEFENDER
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 2:38pmProbably has Lakoff as one of his campaign managers.
Buchanan16
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:38amThat’s some scary stuff
But WE will prevail in the end ;)
freedomisasfreedomdoes
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:37amProgressives have to have a guide on what/how to think? Wow. That should be the 1st clue in regards to how freedoms are viewed by Progressive Leaders (who think of themselves as thinkers/pioneers). If an individual has to be told what/how to think vs gathering info so they can potentially form their own unique opinions, how is that freedom? Or a philosophical/sociological system that values the individual and their freedoms?
Soon people will be stating “Brawndo the Thirst Mutilator” and using it to water crops.
RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:34amLOL, couldn‘t help but to crack up laughing once I read the book’s author’s names. The first thing it made me think of is Rush Limbaugh’s constant reference to him as George Lackoff, rhymes with……….
Lakoff has been out there for some time now and his ideas and agenda are truly laughable.
Verceofreason
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 1:49pmUPS just dropped Limbaugh as a sponsor.
Keep up the good work!
RJJinGadsden
Posted on July 9, 2012 at 11:08pmVERCEOFREASON, Can’t tell the truth yet can you? Just cut and pasted your accusation and came up with nothing regarding your claim on my search engine. AOL dropped Rush, but there are so many waiting in line to advertise on his show that he has nothing to worry about. Just BS and wishful thinking on your part, along with your usual lies.