{"id":24159,"date":"2011-12-02T13:53:55","date_gmt":"2011-12-02T20:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/words-mean-things-so-lets-change-them.html"},"modified":"2011-12-02T15:16:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-02T22:16:58","slug":"words-mean-things-so-lets-change-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/words-mean-things-so-lets-change-them.html","title":{"rendered":"Words mean things &#8230; so let&#39;s change them!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I expect Frank Luntz to offer any substantive economic policy suggestions, but his recommendations for the GOP in dealing with the Occupy movement and its growing effect on the political \/ economic debate in the US is &#8230; change the language you use.  <\/p>\n<p>So, if people don&#39;t trust the GOP to protect the &quot;middle class,&quot; don&#39;t use that term, just call them &quot;hardworking taxpayers.&quot;  If people are beginning to consider &quot;capitalism&quot; as an immoral system, then don&#39;t use the word. If people are beginning to resent the word &quot;bonus&quot; then call it &quot;pay for performance&quot; instead.  And be sure people know you &quot;get it&quot; and &quot;hear it&quot; without actually promising to do anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, it&#39;s not about policy, it&#39;s about advertising. Which is what guys like Luntz sell. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2Fd%2Fd9%2FFrank_luntz_2009.jpg%2F220px-Frank_luntz_2009.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/special\/2011\/12\/01\/379365\/frank-luntz-occupy-wall-street\/'>Top GOP Strategist Admits He\u2019s \u2018Scared\u2019 Of Occupy Wall Street Because It\u2019s \u2018Having An Impact\u2019<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Republican Governor\u2019s Association met in Florida this week and featured pollster Frank Luntz, who offered a coaching session for attendees about how they should communicate to the public. Yahoo! N&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not that I expect Frank Luntz to offer any substantive economic policy suggestions, but his recommendations for the GOP in dealing with the Occupy movement and its growing effect on the political \/ economic debate in the US is &#8230; change the language you use. So, if people don&#39;t trust the GOP to protect the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/02\/words-mean-things-so-lets-change-them.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Words mean things &#8230; so let&#39;s change them!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,8],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-zt-pc","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25283,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/11\/the-economic-system-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.html","url_meta":{"origin":24159,"position":0},"title":"The economic system that dare not speak its name","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 11-Jan-12 11:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"Of course, Luntz isn't suggesting changing what the GOP stands for: \"Conservatives should not be defending capitalism. 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It was kind of a busy day. I started my blog, alas, after the birth of my daughter (who was a year and a half old then), but just in time (also alas) for 9\/11. 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