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A Way with Words - language, linguistics, and callers from all over
A Way with Words
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🗓️ 16 August 2010
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 0:53.0 | You're listening to a way with words. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm Martha Barnett. |
| 1:01.0 | And I'm Grant Barrett. |
| 1:02.0 | One of the curiosities of American politics is that even though there's much talk about how bipartisanship is a good idea and how divisiveness doesn't get anything done in Washington, there's also an attitude that a centrist |
| 1:14.2 | is just somebody who doesn't have a strong conviction and who can't be trusted. |
| 1:18.9 | That idea is perfectly crystallized in the expression Far Center. Far center is a political position in which |
| 1:25.4 | a politician is so committed to compromise that they please know one. It's a |
| 1:29.8 | radical compromising. That's great I never heard that far center. Yeah it's somebody who is... radical |
| 1:33.0 | compromise. That's great. I never heard that far center. Yeah, it's somebody who is they're not the |
| 1:35.4 | far right, they're not the radical conservatives, and they're not in the far left, they're not the radical liberals. |
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