Rhetoric Mugs

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

'Great speech! But let's cut your carefully reasoned conclusion and insert an uplifting sports metaphor.'

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Insight/Incite

Changing Minds

"You're a 'Progressive Conservative' politician. What exactly does that mean?"

'I'm taking a new approach. I'm giving up barking for rosy rhetoric.'

'If elected I promise not to use the 'F' Word.'

What came first, the chicken or the egg

'Testing...I promise, I promise, I promise...'

Like Minded

"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?"

"VP J.D. Vance called Donald: 'cynical asshole,' a 'moral disaster,' a 'total fraud,' an 'idiot,' and suggested he might be 'America’s Hitler.'"

Information...political rhetoric

'I'm afraid I'll fall and no one will hear me.'

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

'There are no stupid questions, so let's also agree there are no stupid answers.'

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

"...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.

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

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

Language of politics.

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

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

Violent Rhetoric

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

Ministry of Soundbites: "Actually minister, it doesn't really matter what you say as long as you include a combination of the words 'choice','empowerment' and 'customer focussed'."

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

"Not guilty, because your lawyer came up with some great excuses."

"I don't know how he does it. He preaches entire sermons without using the words like, cool or awesome."

Vicar and Devil at the Pulpit

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