this is a truly outstanding video.
Anyone interested in preserving American democracy should consider viewing it. It explains in detail the deceits that have brought us to our current position like no other presentation on the subject.
Not what it pretends to be
The back cover of this DVD states that "George Lakoff..., a professor of cognitive linguistics...dissects the conservative dialogue and provides explanations and examples on how they spent the last 35 years perfecting their ideas and language."
George does a fair job of this and does give some clear examples and explanations. Unfortunately he deviates from this goal too often and substitutes his own framing of topics rather than stick to clear facts. He commits the same errors of logic that he accuses the conservatives of. Additionally, the material is already dated with his frequent references to the Bush administration in particular instead of conservatives in general.
George would be ok despite these shortcomings, but the periodic ranting by Sean Penn was odd at first but downright embarrassing by the end of the video. I am neutral on Sean, but this video truly made me question his agenda. He seems to have a true hatred of Bush (I was no fan of the Bush...
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