Usually, you hear hyperbole in the form of exaggeration of numbers or degree of feeling:
1. “We’ve been over this a million times.”
2. “I’m so hungry, I could eat a horse.”
In politics, hyperbole runs rampant, but politicians usually know they can’t use it like this. Obama isn’t inflating number for effect when he [...]
Archive for November, 2008
Hyperbole as rhetorical device
Posted in Not done with the campaign yet on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Memory as Rhetoric
Posted in Just Words, Sarah Palin on November 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve studied rhetoric beyond sophomore composition, you may have run across “the Five Canons of Rhetoric.”
One of them is “memory,” and I never understood how memory could be considered a part of rhetoric until just now. While wandering through BYU’s The Forest of Rhetoric (it is Friday night, after all), I realized that [...]
The News is Boring
Posted in Aww screw it on November 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The news is boring. I find a great void in my day, and watching Obama walk through the portico near the rose garden at the White House just didn’t do it for me. Was that really a story? Was it really a big enough story to warrant front page, full color photos [...]
Stimulus Package
Posted in Aww screw it, Just Words on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last Spring when President Bush requested that Congress get a stimulus package on his desk by the following week, my friend David thought it was a hilarious turn of phrase. “Stimulus” and “package” together in one sentence? What a treasure of double entendre. Well, that’s what David thought, anyway. When I [...]
Proud to be an American
Posted in Aww screw it, Just Words, Those Wacky Liberals on November 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I am always very interested about what a tone or choice of words reveals about the audience or context of a piece of text. So much of what we’re hearing now from people who support Obama is sounding like what a mass email moveon.org sent out yesterday says:
Here’s one comment that pretty much sums [...]
Victory Speech
Posted in Obama Wins on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
You’ve probably already seen this, but here it is. It’s very emotional, as any such speech is.
My favorite part is when Bill Ayers came on stage and they started a “Death to America” chant together.
Obama Wins. No, Really.
Posted in Obama Wins on November 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Wow. That was easy.
I am shocked by how easy this was. At just about 11PM, I refreshed my CNN page after spending 10 minutes typing an unrelated email to a friend, and to my surprise, they had called it for Obama. I went to Fox, and they had done the same. [...]
Early Results. Check Somewhere Better
Posted in Aww screw it on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why on earth would anyone check my blog for election results?
Nobody would. Please enjoy coverage by mainstream media; it’s their election, after all.
Google
MSNBC
Fox News
CNN
ABC News
Watch them project state results suspiciously early. All them do it, even the biased ones when they;re awarding states through clenched teeth for their enemy. They have to [...]
Election Day Havoc. How Obama Destroys the World.
Posted in Aww screw it, Those Wacky Conservatives on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
One of the Starbucks in the financial district in New York City (one block from Ground Zero) had their water turned off today. Consequently, there was no coffee (though other drinks were available, so they did not close). One customer approached the counter:
BARISTA: Sorry, there’s no coffee. Our water is off.
CUSTOMER: There’s [...]
Obama Looking Ragged, McCain Looking Spry
Posted in Just images (and sounds), Uncategorized on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On the last day of the campaigns, the day before the voting, I caught some glimpses of Barack Obama looking and sounding tired.
First, in Florida, he was talking about Ohio. Simple mistake:
Then, in Cincinnati, he just looked tired:
I saw a clip on CNN last night as [...]
