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	<title><![CDATA[Joe Lieberman & the Hostile Takeover of "Centrism"]]></title>
	<url>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/joe-lieberman-the-hostile_b_21864.html</url>
	<abstract><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=sirotablog-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0307237346%2Fqid%3D1135296981%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dsr_8_xs_ap_bn1_xgl14%3Fn%3D507846%2526s%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance"><img vspace="5" hspace="5" border="0" align="right" src="http://www.davidsirota.com/highrescoversmall.gif"></A><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=sirotablog-20&amp;amp;l=ur2&amp;amp;o=1" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" /></a>In my new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?link_code=ur2&amp;tag=sirotablog-20&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;path=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2F0307237346%2Fqid%3D1135296981%2Fsr%3D8-1%2Fref%3Dsr_8_xs_ap_bn1_xgl14%3Fn%3D507846%2526s%3Dbooks%2526v%3Dglance"><em>Hostile Takeover</em></a>, I spend a good deal of time showing how ultra-conservative right-wingers have hijacked the terms "centrist" and "mainstream" and disconnected them from what's actually "centrist" and "mainstream" among the public. This is no small matter (and <a href="http://www.davidsirota.com/index.php/debunking-centrism/">a topic I have focused on before</a>) - it is a hugely important and powerful linguistic weapon deviously employed by...</p>]]></abstract>
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	<date_published>2008-03-28T02:46:00-04:00</date_published>
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