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August 02, 2005
The Framing Wars -- Update
A few weeks back, we wrote about Matt Bai's interesting piece for the NY Times Magazine on George Lakoff and "framing", the latest cure-all on the political left.
Last Sunday's magazine featured a list of interesting letters generated by the piece, and among them was a missive from former Houston City Council Member and Democratic National Committeeman Carroll Robinson.
His letter is third from the top, but since it is short, we have reprinted it. Interesting.
As Matt Bai reminds us, framing is nothing new in politics. What Democrats need to remember is that neither good advertising nor a play on words can sell a bad product or public policy. The challenge for Democrats is to show (not tell) Americans that they have a coherent and cohesive set of substantive ideas (policies).
Carroll G. Robinson
Houston
Posted by houtopia at August 2, 2005 10:50 PM