Rhetoric Professor Mugs

Debate Class: "Why Should I Let You In?"

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

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?"

"Presidential approval ratings. US stock market confidence indices. U.S. dollar index. So much winning."

Like Minded

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

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."

"Negotiations are at a crucial phase. We're desperately seeking more ways to say 'no'.''

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.

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

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

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

Violent Rhetoric

What came first, the chicken or the egg

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Peace Policy

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

"Sure he riles up his base, but where's the positive message?"

'Call in someone who understands all the terminology that no one understands.'

Content writers.

"Could you please refer to this as a merger rather than being in cahoots?"