Rhetoric Coach Gifts

Oz Debating Society. You can't refute everything I say just by call it a "straw man" argument.

'His best qualities are circumventing questions and evading answers.'

'Complete sentences?? Jeez, how verbose can you get?'

Changing Minds

Information...political rhetoric

"Mr. McMurdo has been called 'guilty as the day is long.' And yet, do not biblical scholars tell us a day can mean many things?"

Sybil Obama

'Come on, Walter, you're wasting out time! Stop using complete sentences!'

Like Minded

Masters of Political Oratory

'Actually, I think my use of hyperbole is not only iconoclastic, it is potentially revolutionary.'

'A 'pregnant pause' is effective only if you've already said something.'

And now, for a rebuttal.

"...and to save you time, anything I say that comes back to haunt me, was something taken out of context."

"I seem to have forgotten what I was going to say...please...hold the applause!"

Eddy's mom suggested that he do his speech on cue cards.

"Ambitions. . . To . . . Er. . . Um . . . Become. . . Er. . . Um. . . A. . . Er. . . Um . . . Motivational. . . Er. . . Um. . . Speaker."

Rush Limbaugh

Professor Dubreuil is blow away by the dynamic vitality of Dean Richmond's rhetoric.

"Smart stuff, Chip, but wise up and dumb it down."

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

Language of politics.

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

What came first, the chicken or the egg

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, heterosexuals, homosexuals, bisexuals, transgender. . ."

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

'Wow! Can't you just feel the safe-ness!'

Violent Rhetoric

'Hopkins, I want you to write me an inspiring, dynamic speech that bears my unmistakable stamp of genius.'

What are you talking about?

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Four More More Years

Trumped by Semniotics

Vicar and Devil at the Pulpit

Peace Policy