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Tags: rhetoric, propaganda on 2009-05-11 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Classic Red Herring: We screwed up, but the media is the real problem.

Tags: elections08, politics, rhetoric on 2008-10-25 -All Annotations (1) -About

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A GREAT ARTICLE FOR CLASSROOM USE about HOW HEADLINES, FRAMES, AND OMISSIONS OF FACTS CAN CHANGE A NEWS STORY.

This is dangerous stuff.

Tags: elections08, media, journalism, rhetoric, democracy, propaganda on 2008-10-24 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Remember how Bush beat Kerry by seizing on Kerry's use of the word "global" in the last debate? And how he distorted Kerry's use of the word - he meant it in the sense of "systematic" or "nuanced" - by claiming Kerry meant he wouldn't lead against the will of "global" opinion?

I remember how aghast I was to see this obvious distortion grow legs in the last weeks of the election, when anybody with a vocabulary and the ability to read Kerry's sentence including the word could see that wasn't his meaning. And I remember how disappointed I was that the media didn't correct this obvious ploy at all.

Below, we see McCain doing the same thing with Obama's comment that he wants to "spread the wealth around" by increasing taxes on the over a quarter million dollars a year set, so the other roughly 95 percent of us wouldn't carry as much of the tax burden.

McCain and ex-Bush campaigner Rick Davis (JM's manager) have seized on it in a full-court press to label Obama a "Socialist."

It's silly, and would be laughable, if only it weren't being repeated in headlines that don't laugh with us. Here we go again.

Tags: elections08, mccain, rhetoric, media on 2008-10-21 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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"Palindrone: a sentence that makes no more sense read forward than it does when read backwards." -- LA Times last month.

Here's another zinger:

Tags: elections08, rhetoric, palin, humor, mccain on 2008-10-21 -All Annotations (3) -About

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This is an example of sloppy language. Many "Conservatives" have quit the Republican Party because the New Bush Republicans are no longer "Conservative" in the classic sense.

So this headline is misleading. It should read, "Bush Republicans fearful as election draws near" - because those are the "base" that McCain/Palin has allowed their former Bush campaign manager to cater to.

Read yesterday's post for several examples of REAL conservatives - philosophical ones, not brand name ones - who have jumped ship on McCain for _betraying_ Conservatism.

And read today's for conservative icon Colin Powell's similar move.

Tags: elections08, conservative, mccain, orwell, rhetoric, media, medialiteracy on 2008-10-19 -All Annotations (0) -About

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Great point about the rhetoric of the campaign. Speech and debate (and rhetoric) teachers take note.

Tags: rhetoric, elections08, mccain on 2008-10-19 -All Annotations (1) -About

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Tags: culture, rhetoric, usa, writing on 2007-03-28 and saved by 2 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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Tags: bush, orwell, politics, rhetoric on 2007-03-28 and saved by 3 people -All Annotations (1) -About

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Tags: ap, rhetoric, writing on 2007-03-28 and saved by 50 people -All Annotations (0) -About

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