'Talking Right': Why the Left Is Losing, Linguistically

So I know we're shifting from words to music, but this was too good not to throw in... I just caught an interview with linguist Geoff Nunberg on an old podcast of WHYY's Fresh Air (NPR). He wrote a book that was published earlier this year, and... well, why don't I ljust quote from npr.org:

"In his new book, Talking Right, linguist Geoff Nunberg examines the parlance of the American political right. Conservatives, Nunberg notes, have been remarkably effective at creating a language through which to convey their agenda. The subtitle of his book illustrates what he's getting at: "How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving, Left-Wing Freak Show."

Nunberg, who teaches at the University of California-Berkeley, is a researcher at the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. He is also the author of Going Nucular and The Way We Talk Now."

You can listen to the interview, as well as read an excerpt from the book, here.