Staff / TruthdigAug 8, 2008
Despite criticisms of the efficacy of the "surge" in Iraq, a US commander in Afghanistan has dared to say that a planned "surge" in Afghanistan would in fact not help U interests in the country The commander did make sure not to completely deweaponize the Bush administration's rhetoric, suggesting instead that a different type of surge is needed. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 11, 2008
President Bush says he is now reconsidering the swaggering cowboy image that he adopted early on in his presidency. "I think that in retrospect I could have used a different tone, a different rhetoric," he tells the U.K.'s Times Online as his time in office ticks out. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 10, 2007
The "Daily Show" host examines the president's bizarre speaking style and the rhetorical train wreck that stems from his love affair with self-narration. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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E.J. Dionne Jr. / TruthdigJul 31, 2007
One of the most predictable arguments is also one of the most useless: that politics come down to a choice between being for "big government" or "small government." Those catchphrases explain remarkably little about what politicians do, or what voters want. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJul 12, 2007
Check out the trailer for "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death," the chilling outcome of acclaimed author and columnist Norman Solomon's collaboration with the Media Education Foundation. (Above, Bill O'Reilly, one of those in the movie.) The documentary is based on Solomon's book of the same name and uses archival footage to map the rhetoric of war since the 1960s. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigJun 1, 2007
In his commencement speech to the class of 2007 at UC Berkeley's Department of Rhetoric, author Mark Danner gives the new graduates a crash course in Bushian rhetoric (not quite on par with Aristotle's celebrated canon) and dubs Bush the "first Rhetoric-Major President." (Note: Article courtesy of Tom Engelhardt at TomDispatch.com.) Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )
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