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.

Trumped by Semniotics

Sybil Obama

Insight/Incite

Changing Minds

Them's fightin' words, mister

"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."

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

'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.'

Masters of Political Oratory

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."

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

If You Can't Beat Them

Rush Limbaugh

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

Language of politics.

Violent Rhetoric

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

Vote For Me: The winning over of voters.

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes