Rhetoric Master Pillows

'Oh, the irony! Just guess who gave me the welfare check I bought this sign with!'

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

"I think before we begin to address me, we need to talk about the clown in the room."

"National Metaphor Day by the looks of it."

Information...political rhetoric

"I love a woman with a sense of humour."

'Life is like a trough, Mr. Fisk. How much slop you get out of it depends on how much slop you put into it.'

"Remorse sits in my stomach like a piece of stale bread. How does that sound?"

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

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

'I've discovered you have feet of clay.'

Masters of Political Oratory

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

And now, for a rebuttal.

'Oh man, he just nailed that triple entendre... that all but guarantees him a medal.'

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

Some moss pounces on a rolling stone.

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

Rush Limbaugh

Life Remaining Progress Bar

Language of politics.

"Permission to speak in rhyming couplets, sir!"

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

"I'd like to start by saying that anything I say that will come back to haunt me will be something taken out of context."

"Poetry would be way more accessible if they just said what they meant."

"Is this speech pie-in-the-sky nonsense or aspirational?"

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

'I'm just not keen.'

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

Violent Rhetoric

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

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

'Darlin', what's an adjective for a two-timin', heart-breakin' outlaw that rhymes with iPod?'

'Nana nana, Bo Fana, Banana Fana, Fo Fana Fee Fy Banana.'

Vicar and Devil at the Pulpit