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Starring: DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT: KNOW YOUR VALUES George Lakoff. This dvd is a complement to the book, FRAME THE DEBATE by George Lakoff Format: DVD
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  • Actors: DON'T THINK OF AN ELEPHANT: KNOW YOUR VALUES George Lakoff. This dvd is a complement to the book, FRAME THE DEBATE by George Lakoff
  • Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, NTSC
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Studio: Educate the Base
  • DVD Release Date: September 9, 2004
  • Run Time: 25 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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JUST RELEASED! How Democrats and Progressives Can Win: Solutions from George Lakoff is a powerful tool for concerned citizens, activists, volunteers - everyone - who wants to communicate effectively. Using television news clips, graphics, and a lively interview with George Lakoff, this 25 minute DVD program will help you understand the critical role of language in today's politics and the ways you can make language work for you. This is a 'How-to' style program with a particular emphasis on this year's presidential election. The use of language to frame all the issues and political debate is what the Republicans figured out over 20 years ago - but what the Democrats have only recently discovered. Lakoff is an expert on language and on this DVD you will learn:

* How conservatives were able to gain so much power

* What "framing" is

* How the term "tax relief" works to frame the debate over taxation

* How to debate a conservative

* Where have all the religious liberals have gone

* Why there seem to be two Americas

* How to influence a swing voter

* How to 'frame' President Bush

* Values win elections. Conservatives know theirs. Do you know yours?

George Lakoff is one of the world's best-known linguists. He is Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding senior fellow at the Rockridge Institute. He is the author of the influential book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, 2nd Edition, (2002).

Howard Dean calls Lakoff "one of the most influential political thinkers of the progressive movement." Lakoff's star has been rising--he is currently an advisor to John Kerry and contributed to his acceptance speech at the Democratic Convention.

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50 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Way for Progressives to be Politically Effective and Win, September 23, 2004
By Robert Bostick (Oakland CA.) - See all my reviews
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This DVD captures George Lakoff's entire point of view in an extraordinarily concise and powerful way. The editing is tight and the accompanying support graphics help make his thoughts even clearer. For all progressives who wonder why the right has been so successful at framing their "conservative" agenda and winning so many elections in the last 12 years here is your answer. The DVD gives the progressive movement the linguistic tools to communicate our values and vision more effectively than ever before. This DVD is a great gift to anyone who seeks to make this a better world. Buy it and pass it around. It is something really positive to do.
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54 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Framing a New Progressive Agenda, October 23, 2004
By William Hare (Seattle, Washington) - See all my reviews
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George Lakoff has broken interesting new ground at the Rockridge Institute. The linguistics professor at the University California at Berkeley has led the movement in helping shape a new progressive political agenda after conceding that conservatives had achieved a big lead in the important realm of establishing message as a means of prevailing in ongoing debate.

Lakoff explains at the beginning of this informative DVD how Louis Powell, shortly before being appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Richard Nixon in 1970, launched the movement to establish an effort to seize the political agenda in American for conservatives. Some 43 think tanks were created in the better than three decades since Powell launched his effort. Progressives found it difficult to match the level of financial expenditures of conservatives assisted by corporate largesse, but are now in a position to claw their way back into the game and ultimately win.

The area where Lakoff contends that the major momentum was established in promoting the conservative political agenda resides generally in the message field and specifically through framing issues by the shrewd and repetitious use of language. A strong case in point was Bush's first move after assuming the presidency. On day one of Bush's term he sought to reward the corporate donors who had provided him with the chance to win the presidency, which ultimately occurred not through the ballot box but by a one vote Supreme Court majority, by advocating what he called "tax relief."

Lakoff explains that the word "tax" has a negative connotation to Americans, but by creating a positive metaphor such as "tax relief" a negative is converted to a positive. The term conjures up a doctor providing just the right medication for a patient to feel better. Burdens are diminished through relief.

Another area where Lakoff credits conservatives with gaining a rhetorical advantage is by using the term "abortion" repeatedly. Opponents are seen as involved with killing whereas, with different framing, by referring to a woman's reproductive rights or stressing a woman's "right to choose" the concept of individual liberty is envisioned rather than a negative connotation. He points out that, while conservatives extol a "pro life" agenda they fail to follow through in vital areas such as pre-natal care and guaranteed health care for children. Progressives can make their case, however, only by rephrasing the labels conservatives seek to apply to a political issue.

The environment is an area where Lakoff cites a shrewd effort by conservatives to use positive language to frame a negative position that, with proper citizen reflection, he feels will redound in the favor of progressives and against Bush and his right wing adherents. Bush repeatedly refers to his clear skies initiative, which he sought as a substitute for the Clean Air Act passed and extended by Congress for decades. The Bush measure allows corporations to buy credits from each other for the legal permission to pollute. Lakoff states that it is a losing proposition to accept the term of clear skies advanced by conservatives in debate.

A positive brought about through framing needs to be reversed by calling Bush's concept a dirty skies proposal, which conjures up a negative image. To George Lakoff success is all in the framing through which the progressive presentation is made.

The terms conservatives employ in seeking acceptance for proposals must be challenged by immediately invoking alternative terms. If the conservative uses a negative term in attempting to paint the progressive into a corner the progressive must then respond by invoking a positive term. The same applies concerning a positive term that to liberals embodies a negative program. Lakoff advocates reversing the terminology in favor of the progressive position.

Lakoff is optimistic about the ability of progressives to prevail as long as a winning game plan is followed, that of taking control of the agenda through framing issues in the proper winning verbal context. The right words connote the right images, putting citizens in the mood to embrace the progressive agenda.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars more framing examples, March 13, 2006
What every Progressive candidate or backer needs to know. This short video should be required viewing before each time any progressive candidate speaks in public. How to express positions in a frame that reflects progressive values. For example, talk about "tax fairness" or "investment in the future". The phrase "tax relief" evokes the notion that taxes are an affliction which needs to be relieved: who could support continued infliction of such suffering? On the other hand, the tax reduction in 2003 was $400 for an average wage-earner and 1000 times that for a CEO getting 200 times the average wage.
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