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Deflating the Elephant

20092h 4mMovie

Sean Penn teams with author George Lakoff in this thought-provoking examination of how language frames the nature of political discourse in America. How phrases such as "pro life", "no child left behind" and "the war on terror" dominated the national dialogue with polarizing results.

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Sean Penn

Narrator

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