“Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle.”
New York Magazine interview http://nymag.com/news/politics/22322/ (16 October 2006) <br class="br">Context: Language has always been important in politics, but language is incredibly important to the present political struggle. Because if you can establish an atmosphere in which information doesn't mean anything, then there is no objective reality. The first show we did, a year ago, was our thesis statement: What you wish to be true is all that matters, regardless of the facts. Of course, at the time, we thought we were being farcical.
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