Rhetorician Pillows

"Forget digression, imbecilio, chiasmus, isocolon, paradox, diacope, anaphora, metonymy, litotes - just take offence."

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

Changing Minds

Information...political rhetoric

Tonight: Town Hall Meeting. With free speech, sometimes I think that you get what you pay for!

"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

"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.'

The Truth

Masters of Political Oratory

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

Like Minded

"...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.

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

Rush Limbaugh

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

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

Your logic is flaccid and your data suppositional, dawg!

Language of politics.

"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."

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

Violent Rhetoric

Lawyers - A peroration a la Demosthenes

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

What came first, the chicken or the egg

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.'

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

Opening arguments would begin after the intimidation round.

Peace Policy

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

Trumped by Semniotics

Four More More Years