{"id":10238,"date":"2009-09-25T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T16:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=10238"},"modified":"2009-09-25T10:12:06","modified_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:12:06","slug":"kpfk-fund-drive-day-11-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2009\/09\/25\/kpfk-fund-drive-day-11-8\/","title":{"rendered":"KPFK Fund Drive &#8211; Day 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/DailyDigest-092509\/2009_09_25_uprising.MP3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist&#8217;s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpfk.org\/pledge\/catalog\/product_info.php\/products_id\/1718?osCsid=04147e7679f01fe13d4687749b91b1ab\">>> Click here to make a pledge<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kpfk.org\/pledge\/catalog\/product_info.php\/products_id\/1718?osCsid=04147e7679f01fe13d4687749b91b1ab\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=45% src=\"http:\/\/www.mindreign.com\/images\/books\/978\/01\/43\/11\/568\/9780143115687_0.jpg\" alt=\"political mind\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs President Obama continues to push for reform of the nation\u2019s health care system, right-wing resistance has encapsulated itself in emotionally charged, yet simple phrases. \u201cDeath panels,\u201d \u201csocialism,\u201d and \u201cgovernment takeover,\u201d are immediately recognizable and updated additions to today\u2019s lexicon of conservatism. Obama, in his address on health care to a joint session of Congress earlier this month, tried to reason away such words as obfuscations in the debate calling notions of \u2018death panels\u2019 plain and simple lies. However, in his attempts to garner support for his reforms, is the President failing to communicate? George Lakoff, linguist, cognitive scientist, and author of several books on the subject of politics and language believes so. Whereas the right has been able to present their objections in effective frames, easily recognizable to their base, Lakoff asserts that the Obama administration has committed the errors of \u201cpolicy speak,\u201d in presenting his plans for reforming health care. In analyzing the language, Lakoff asserts that the lack of a unifying idea at the expense of \u201cpolicy lists\u201d has muddied the debate. The one term the administration has to its credit, \u201cpublic option,\u201d is too boring and uninspiring. In his latest book, Lakoff lays out his thesis of the how the right wins and keeps power by framing issues effectively and controlling minds. Just out in paperback, the book is titled, \u201cThe Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist\u2019s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics.\u201d Employing the latest research in neuroscience, Lakoff argues that appeals to dispassionate rationalism, facts, and logic in political arguments in this day and age is a serious misstep.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thank you Gifts: <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Political Mind &#8211; book &#8211; $85<br \/>\nThe Political Mind &#8211; DVD of a speech &#8211; $100<br \/>\nDeflating the Elephant &#8211; DVD &#8211; $85<br \/>\nThe George Lakoff Wake-up Call Pack &#8211; all of the above &#8211; $200<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Political Mind: A Cognitive Scientist&#8217;s Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics >> Click here to make a pledge. As President Obama continues to push for reform of the nation\u2019s health care system, right-wing resistance has encapsulated itself in emotionally charged, yet simple phrases. \u201cDeath panels,\u201d \u201csocialism,\u201d and \u201cgovernment takeover,\u201d are immediately recognizable and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}