Because I am one who frequently bemoans the lack of rhetorical education, readers may well imagine that I adore moments of national public focus on rhetorical events. These moments tend to be Presidential speeches — the only rhetorical events of enough interest to actually supersede (gasp) regular programming. (Incidentally, that, for me, is the overriding [...]
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