Language Politics

Yesterday I wrote about the demonization of the 'liberal' label which is closely related to the right wing language wars exemplified by the "Healthy Forests Initiative," "Clear Skies," and so on. Well, not to be outdone in warping peoples' thought processes the left has their very own professional language abuser. He calls it 'framing.' George Carlin has lost the war. We are all the worse off for it. The guy's answer to the possibility that he is a propagandist:
How to Talk Like a Conservative (If You Must)

MJ.com: Yet I imagine for some liberals, when they hear you talking about needing to reframe the issues, they think, “Oh, we have to create propaganda. There’s something dishonest about that.”

GL: I’m not saying that we should do that at all. But there’s a very important other message there, which is: the conservatives know that they’re weak. If the public agreed with them, they could have called it the Dirty Air initiative. Why not? Well, they knew the public wouldn’t like it. What this means is that they’re weak. If they know they’re weak, they can be called on it because the public is on your side.

I'm not sure exactly how to deflate the language abuses on either side, but his answer seems somewhat non-responsive, or at least incomplete. He doesn't explain how he proposes to avoid descent into propaganda. He talks about 'framing' in a way that means 'distorting' not the morally laudable 're-injecting truth' that he hints at here. n.b. Also the blurb for the headline article on the MoJo homepage: " We're less far than we might imagine from a world where an Orwellian formula like "illusion is reality" could pass muster." Satire can't beat reality.