{"id":13,"date":"2008-11-05T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/11\/05\/rhetoric-becomes-rhetoric-in-politics\/"},"modified":"2008-11-05T14:14:38","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T18:14:38","slug":"rhetoric-becomes-rhetoric-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/2008\/11\/05\/rhetoric-becomes-rhetoric-in-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"“Rhetoric” becomes “rhetoric” in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a completely bipartisan lament.\u00a0 When did the word “rhetoric” become synonymous with “empty speech”?<\/p>\n

\"Demosthenes<\/a>Perhaps it’s as old a smear as the attacks by Athenian philosophers on the Rhetoricians of their day.\u00a0 I’d contend that Rhetoric (with an R) is a noble art, but the term can hardly be used anymore.<\/p>\n

By the way,\u00a0 both President-Elect Obama and Senator McCain made very powerful speeches on election night. McCain was noble and magnanimous, and he used a rhetoric of inclusion that nicely matched Obama’s approach a little while later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a completely bipartisan lament.\u00a0 When did the word “rhetoric” become synonymous with “empty speech”? Perhaps it’s as old a smear as the attacks by Athenian philosophers on the Rhetoricians of their day.\u00a0 I’d contend that Rhetoric (with an R) is a noble art, but the term can hardly be used anymore. By the … Continue reading “Rhetoric” becomes “rhetoric” in politics<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":589,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcsCNV-d","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/589"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}