tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61122002011-07-18T11:17:10.895-05:00Rhetoricians for Peaceeyeing the discourse of permanent warRCnoreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1158586004498944272006-09-18T08:26:00.000-05:002006-09-18T08:26:44.576-05:00Page PalsWell, we had a small but fun meeting at Patty and Sue's house last night. We talked about the book, about the fact that Katie has repackaged cognitive therapy in a way that is accessible. And we had a wonderful conversation about the nature of insight and epiphanies. Thanks Patty, for this book. It has already been helpful to me.Karen Jensennoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1094268678803005032004-09-03T22:31:00.000-05:002004-09-03T22:31:18.803-05:00. Davidnoreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1088125498618699652004-06-24T19:53:00.000-05:002004-06-24T20:04:58.616-05:00One interesting result of the controversy as to exactly how much the Administration was lying about an Al Queda-Iraq connection is that folks are going back and trying to figure out how they actually went about it. Here, for instance, is Matt Yglesias on Bush's Gricean implicatures. RCnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1082311946127138842004-04-18T13:12:00.000-05:002004-04-18T13:17:27.356-05:00"People are Fungible" a.k.a., Rumsfeld betting the American voter won't look "fungible" up.RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1080822620022156792004-04-01T07:30:00.000-05:002004-04-03T08:48:51.873-05:00The Memory Hole I'd like to assemble as big a list as possible of links/resources/whatever that confirm Clarke's story -- for instance, there's a couple of unguarded quotations from the Shrub Himself in Woodward's Bush at War that have been bouncing around blogland, and I ran across more than a few other revelatory stories -- e.g., Bush was heard saying the words "Al Queda" or "bin Laden" betweenRCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1080699920225086432004-03-30T21:25:00.000-05:002004-03-30T21:34:18.360-05:00Atrios, and Bill Gallagher, and Kevin Drum, and John Nichols are all saying in one way or another how much grief the Bushistas could spare themselves if they only could find some way around the, in Nichols's words, "absolute inability on the part of Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and, above all, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, to admit when they haveRCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1080694997537679002004-03-30T20:00:00.000-05:002004-03-30T21:35:42.936-05:00Randy, I am entering my first message as a test. The current public debate and news coverage of the misrepresentations of the Bush Administration are just mindboggling. I can't imagine any other recent leader getting away with as much political/administration errors and lies as this one. Luisa the novice blogger.Luisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08773520197662093373noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1074855484274491032004-01-23T05:58:00.000-05:002004-01-27T08:28:09.076-05:00Analyses of the State of the Union address by Clinton speechwriter David Kusnet, Jeff Koopersmith (who reams the biblical diction that Kusnet finds effective), Arianna Huffington (on the "marriage initiative"), Rahul Mahajan, Tom Engelhardt, David Corn, Greg Palast (on Bush's "educational eugenics"), Richard Cohen, David von Drehle and Calvin Woodward, George Lakoff, Glenn Kessler and Robin RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1074315731650425272004-01-16T23:57:00.000-05:002004-01-17T00:04:06.826-05:00Forgive me for being out of sinc. Did this blog take the place of email? Could be why I stopped seeing rfp emails? But I don't see much activity on this blog either? Confused in Michigan Chuck Jordan Lake Michigan College Benton Harbor, MichiganChuckhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06418112796492297417noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1074172855382578332004-01-15T08:20:00.000-05:002004-01-15T08:22:48.123-05:00Weaponized Information Tom Engelhardt has two recent columns on the Newspeak a la Shrub that's entering the language. Includes "hunter-killer teams," "embedded," "free-speech zones," "transfer tubes," many more.RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073839992411785142004-01-11T11:53:00.000-05:002004-01-11T11:53:32.670-05:00 "This War Was Not Necessary" AThe quote above is from a 61-page study, "WMD in Iraq: Evidence and Implications," released by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace on January 7. Other highlights: -- "There was and is no solid evidence of a cooperative relationship between Saddam's government and Al Queda." -- "The dramatic shift between prior intelligence assessments and the OctoberRCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073777453549439682004-01-10T18:30:00.000-05:002004-01-10T19:29:02.690-05:00Thanks to Randy for creating this blog and sending the invitations. I know the RFP listserve that we've received some forwarded messages from the "Daily Mislead" listserve. For those who want to subscribe to the Mislead listserve, see this website: Misleader.org: Daily Mislead. I pass along many of these pieces to teachers in our writing program, for them to use in appropriate situations with Glennhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13660677439468662003noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073768650650916172004-01-10T15:59:00.000-05:002004-01-10T19:29:48.643-05:00Hi Randy and everyone else. I'm not much of a rhetorician, but this still looks like an interesting discussion. Does this blog focus on stuff at the national or local level?benjaminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11398973242701564276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073768068427441872004-01-10T15:53:00.000-05:002004-01-10T19:30:07.300-05:00Hi, Randy. Thanks for setting this up. I'm still not exactly sure what blogging is, but it looks promising. Do you think we might end up with a book deal, like Julia/Julia, or Ms. Smartypants the punk rocker?annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17433496394643993839noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073762129826343082004-01-10T14:15:00.000-05:002004-01-10T19:30:31.673-05:00Hi Randy and everyone---I did not know that you made this with Blogger. I already have a Blogger blog, and so it's easy to use another one. It's easy any way you do it. Cheers for Blogger. The Ira Chernus article you sent around about the New York Post's character attacks on Dean makes one believe that our mandate here at rfp is all the more crucial. And again, it points me to Al Franken's book,Davidnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073753901523749572004-01-10T11:58:00.000-05:002004-01-10T11:58:36.833-05:00This is only a test.Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11278686210381245316noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1073694733365735952004-01-09T19:32:00.000-05:002004-01-10T10:13:01.803-05:00Streaming Video Outrage Deluxe Don Waller of the generally excellent Take Back the Media comments on the well-rehearsed outrage of right-wing pundits over a submission to MoveOn's "Bush in 30 Seconds" campaign comparing Bush to Hitler. Waller points out, among other things, that the Republican National Committee's Ed Gillespie was, um, compelled to put the offensive submission on the RNC's own RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1070727130095709932003-12-06T11:12:00.000-05:002003-12-06T11:12:21.420-05:00 Manicheism, Messianism, and Jesus on the March A partial translation of Juan Stam's article on Bush's use of religious tropes has appeared in The Nation: "It is remarkable how closely Bush's discourse coincides with that of the false prophets of the Old Testament." The Spanish original is here; a complete translation would be nice, hint ..... RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1069937790737389862003-11-27T07:56:00.000-05:002003-11-27T07:57:29.020-05:00 "I'm interested in a rational information policy that respects the American public." Washington Post interview with Steven Aftergood, director of the Federation of American Scientists' Project on Government Secrecy. RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1069629692982737142003-11-23T18:18:00.000-05:002003-11-23T18:57:46.470-05:00Maureen Dowd's NY Times op-ed today closes with a powerful new bumper slogan, resonant with American history The only thing we have to fear is fearmongering itself Charleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03996244448389378505noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1069594783724059432003-11-23T08:39:00.000-05:002003-11-23T18:55:39.440-05:00The Better Rhetor Mayfly blog that lasted from 12/17/02 to 5/6/03, burning that much brighter for its brief etc. If you're out there, rhetor, get in touch.RCnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6112200.post-1069435338922593342003-11-21T12:22:00.000-05:002003-11-27T08:11:17.556-05:00It BeginsThe Republican National Committee has released its first commercial for the 2004 Presidential campaign: as the Times says, "It shows Mr. Bush, during the last State of the Union address, warning of continued threats to the nation: 'Our war against terror is a contest of will, in which perseverance is power,' he says after the screen flashes the words, 'Some are now attacking the RCnoreply@blogger.com0