Saturday, March 18, 2006

Bush's Rhetorical Devices

Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches - Yahoo! News: "When the president starts a sentence with 'some say' or offers up what 'some in Washington' believe, as he is doing more often these days, a rhetorical retort almost assuredly follows.

The device usually is code for Democrats or other White House opponents. In describing what they advocate, Bush often omits an important nuance or substitutes an extreme stance that bears little resemblance to their actual position"

Good dissection of technique here. Check it out.

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