To start off, the first article that I read was the one by Lakoff, The Framing of Immigration. I really enjoyed this because he puts reasoning behind why the problem exhists and that the people are like anyone else in this country. Lakoff puts this whole situation in a way that would hit the emotional spot of the reader.
As for Luntz, after the first few sentences I had my hands in fists and struggled to keep reading. When I got to the heading, English as THE first language, I knew I was going to laugh at the stupidity of what he had to say. Maybe this is because I'm in the Education field, but I'm going to assume that he's talking about paying extra for ESL classes in public schools because of the increase of non-english speakers.
The part where this guy lost his credibility was when I saw the quote,
“If immigrants are truly coming here to get a piece of the American Dream, they need to learn and speak the American language.” Obviously he needs to be kicked out for his ignorance to our LANGUAGE. We don't speak american, we speak ENGLISH. Well...enough on that, my brain is bleeding enough from the rest of his article.
And just when I thought I was done with him...what a great surprise it was to have to read even MORE about Luntz. Relating this to the video we watched, the author of THE WORD LAB showed the reader how politics is much like advertising. Politicians need to attract more voters just like advertisers need more buyers. I could've done without Luntz in this article because he seemed to resemble, job wise, of that french guy (*mind blank of his name*) that everyone paid to talk to about how to get more buyers. Luntz talks to the people and then reports back to politicians to help them win votes.
So maybe this last article showed a better side of Luntz. That still doesn't change the fact that he's a black and white guy and Lakoff is able to see the gray inbetween.
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