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Such eloquence! Such force! In a summer spent reading Latin love elegy and Ciceronian rhetorical treatise, the bluntness of Eamon’s kiss-off should have seemed pedestrian, but this was the summer of pop, and for that summer, this song was ours.
Thus far, the rhetorical devices are easy to diagnose, simply canny use of language by a government disinterested in engaging problematic issues. Other strategies are rapidly becoming less obvious, and thus more troubling, as they gain widespread use. The expression “war on terror” should in...
Because Moore is too old to spank, he deserves a good slap in the face. He reminds me of a spoiled child who runs around saying outrageous things, to the delight of his dim-witted parents. Moore isn't cute; he's dangerous. To imply that 9/11 could have been...
But Bush's biggest vulnerability is on the domestic front, where voters believe the Democratic ticket would do a better job on everything from health care (Kerry and running mate John Edwards lead Bush and Cheney by 16 percentage points) to the economy (8 percentage points) to understanding working-class...
When John Kerry reported for podium duty last Thursday night at the Democratic Convention, he faced a deceptively simple rhetorical decision: One America or two? This has been an essential Democratic fault line for more than a century. The populist temptation--to frame a campaign as a contest between the...