Professor Robinson brought up some <a href=”http://election2008ucdenver.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/lakoff-metaphors-and-08-campaign-oh-my/#comment-329″>great points</a> in his comments about my last post regarding <a href=”http://election2008ucdenver.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/lakoff-metaphors-and-08-campaign-oh-my/#comments”>George Lakoff</a>. I would like to address them and other issues that have crept up over the past couple weeks.
<em>”…the real debates are not about frames–they are about fundamental policies.”</em>
Professor Robinson is right, the real debate is about [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Debate’
October 29, 2008
Lakoff Part Deux
October 8, 2008
Debate Debacle
By Ilasiea L. Gray
I had never watched a Presidential debate in my life until this year and I must say I’ve had an indifferent experience. When I watched the first debate between Sen.Barack Obama and Sen. John McCain, I had no idea what to expect. Originally, I thought it would be a typical debate where [...]
October 8, 2008
My Friends, My Friends, My Friends
By Alicia Long
There were high hopes for last night’s debate between Senator Obama and Senator McCain. With Obama widening his lead in the polls (his current lead is around 4-9 points nationally), McCain really needed this debate to help him turn the trend back into his favor.
The high hopes that McCain fans had for this [...]
August 21, 2008
Poor Thing
NBC has apparently shown some sort of bias towards the Obama campaign. An article in the Guardian which is UK online Newspaper tells of the sad story of John McCain’s campaign being abused by NBC and their “Irresponsible Journalism”.
I wonder if NBC will embrace this in the same way that FOX news corp has embraced [...]
