Word: rhetoricizes
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"Government takeover!" So yelled the many critics of President Barack Obama's health care reform bill. But in their focus on the main event, Republicans seem to have all but ignored another part of the legislation that more precisely fits their rhetoric. In addition to securing the President a victory...
On March 13, Patrick T. Brennan '11, managing editor of The Salient, published a highly controversial article about ethnic studies. In the article, Brennan condemned the new Ethnic Studies secondary field as tangential to a proper undergraduate education. But in the meantime, his rhetoric-heavy article has...
Politico reported, “There hasn’t been any hard evidence . . . but Democrats have tried to draw the link between the harassment and the sometimes-inflammatory rhetoric that tea partiers and Republicans deployed in opposing the health care overhaul.”
Overheated rhetoric also knows no political bounds. In an MSNBC discussion of civility and threats in politics, progressive host Ed Schultz didn’t like it when I mentioned his February statement about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s heart, “We ought...
The American way to change this is through quiet revolutions known as elections. The controversy should be resolved in the political process. Overheated rhetoric is protected as free speech. But it’s over the line and wrong to suggest that either major...