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Richard E. Vatz https://wp.towson.edu/vatz/ is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of political rhetoric at Towson University and author of The Only Authentic of Persuasion: the Agenda-Spin Model (Bookwrights House, 2024) and over 200 other works, essays, lectures, and op-eds. He is the benefactor of the Richard E. Vatz Best Debater Award at Towson. The Van Bokkelen Auditorium at Towson University has been named after him.
As I have stated repeatedly and written, Donald Trump is a repellent personality, but Americans will support a candidate – I did — when the alternative and her party are so bereft of good judgment.
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There has been little short of a metaphorical nuclear explosion pursuant to The Washington Post’s owner’s, Jeff Bezos’, decision not to have his newspaper endorse a presidential candidate in 2024 or going forward
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In my very long career of over a half-century, I have commented for a wide range of media regarding matters
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It is presumptuous for anyone to tell others how to vote, but herein I am just suggesting that the readers follow their values, just as I have in the last several days in changing my opinion.
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Vice Presidential Debate between Minnesota Governor and former House Member Tim Walz and first-term Ohio Senator J.D. Vance on Tuesday evening was a very surprising – in a positive way – return to the civility and substance of high-level political debates we haven’t seen since Vice Presidential aspirants Joe Lieberman and Dick Cheney debated in 2000.
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Vice President Kamala Harris was so much clearer than I expected her to be that I was just incredulous. Former President Donald (Trump was stylistically off his game, and why? Not enough self-discipline.
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Bash asked about fracking, and Vice President Harris said she had not been against fracking since 2020. Really? Is there any evidence of this? Harris said she learned they could deal with global warming without cutting fracking…when did she ever say that, Bash forgot to ask how have their efforts to limit global warming worked in the last 3 and ½ years…
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Meet the Press, once under the moderation of aggressive, straight-down-the-middle journalists like original moderator Lawrence E. Spivak, hosts Bill Monroe and Tim Russert, has become a purely Democratic Party-supporting vehicle under Chuck Todd and currently under its most ideologically left-wing moderator, Kristen Welker.
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“Sunday Morning” — the CBS “news” show overseen by Jane Pauley — has embarrassed itself with a rare but potentially opportune interview of President Joe Biden at a fractious political time.
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Vote and support the team you think has the best chance to make our country solvent and secure and make our enemies think we are willing to act to secure our interests without our having to act to do so.
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