...coverage and how much controversy could be gleamed from things that seemed so simple at first glance. I guess you could say I have an obvious "liberal bias". But my amazement was mostly due to the rhetoric both parties use. I kept thinking to myself over and over again: "That speech would NEVER have worked in Norway. They would have been thrown off stage, ridiculed, destroyed their political career...
... etc. and email it to everyone on our class's listserv. So he stopped by to tell me that I've gotten A's on all of them, which was pretty cool. So I'm not worried about that class at all. I think the rhetoric class is going well. I mentioned that I got an A+ on the first paper. We'll see how the second one goes. I've been doing well in my independent study too. I think. The important thing is that...
... wasn't our principle that compromise and cooperation were mandatory for a civil society? where did that all go?" which is how come I ended up not voting in 2000, accepting the "both sides just as bad" rhetoric because I could see the hypocrisy and lies on "our" side, but hadn't gone so far as to examine the base assumptions of my upbringing in re liberalism. Frankly, my first thought when the hoax...
Go offline early one night and miss an attempted amateur grand-old-fashioned ratfucking - and if it hadn't been a slow day at work, the debunking too. Slow Tuesday Night indeed! So a bunch of GOP bloggers...the guy from FOX and all the rest of them, they definitely know what they were trying to do. And it is damnable, and they are damned, damnable liars. The truth is not in them. Nor ever will be
Y'all know I don't usually just post a link to something else sans commentary, but Adam Felber of Wait Wait Don't Tell Me has a short must-read about the media/political mess in this country: "Imaginary Bubba" .
...had little to do with their technical merit. The speeches are also organized by decade; the sixties has more than twice as many as any other decade. There are sections that provide information on rhetoric, with extensive quotations from the likes of Plato and Aristotle. And, there is a secion that defines and illustrates rhetorical devices, both commonplace and arcane (e.g. catachresis and sententia...
Given this hair-raising campaign, I had completely forgotten what a thoughtful exposition of a Republican politician sounded like. Fortunately Colin Powell was able to remind me in his endorsement of...of the Purple-Heart decorated Muslim soldier Khan , born in New Jersey, was of course the antithesis to Joe the Plumber and the Reagenite Wellfare Queen , namely the rhetorical exemplar done right
Andrew Sullivan's Atlantic essay " Why I Blog " is the richest, smartest, best explanation of blogs and blogging it's yet been my privilege to read. Seriously. If you have any interest in the topic, this is worth every second of the time it will take you to read (it's 4 long pages).
For this posting, we'll be looking at websites and thinking of all the rhetorical aspects and appeals that are put into motion on the site. Find a site (work/school friendly...) and give a quick analysis...problems with how policies and beliefs are carried out. Logos: Once you find out why you're laughing or offended by an Onion article, you usually have a better appreciation of the matter at hand
Hey, opponents of same-sex marriage rights: Do you realize that the arguments you're using could have been pulled verbatim from the folks who were decrying the legalization of interracial marriage fifty years ago? WORD FOR FUCKING WORD? That's quite a legacy you've established for yourselves, there.
