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Political rhetoric in the YouTube age

Broadcast: Midmorning, 07/27/2007, 10:45 a.m.

Midmorning checks in with linguist Geoffrey Nunberg to get his take on the recent CNN/YouTube presidential candidate debate.

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  • Geoffrey Nunberg: Author of "Talking Right." He's a linguist who teaches at the School of Information at the University of California at Berkeley.

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