Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D, Author at Baltimore Post-Examiner

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.

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The Singularly Ignored and Banned Discussion of the Number One Cause of Violence, Educational Deficits, Bullying and Poverty: Single Parent Families

December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

In the relationship between single parenting and the high rate of crime, the cause of having only one parent is due to several obvious articulable connections. A single parent cannot usually control a single male, let alone multiple males, their study habits, friendship choices, living in poverty, and group identification. Gangs are always willing to substitute for absent parents.

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For Election Outcomes, Listen to Those in Political Rhetoric

November 6, 2024November 6, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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Fie on Newspaper Endorsements

November 4, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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First Periodic Local and National Ravem (sic) Awards

October 17, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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For Whom a Marylander Should Vote: Harris is politically repellent, and Trump is personally offensive; Tim Walz is not ready for Primetime, and J.D. Vance is Great on a Mic (Apologies to Irving Berlin)

October 9, 2024October 9, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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Walz-Vance Civil Debate: Vance wins by a TKO; CBS Moderators Embarrass Themselves

October 2, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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Kamala/Donald Debate: Kamala Wins on Exceeding Expectations Plus Style; Donald Wins in a Close Call on Substance; My Guess is that Kamala Gains Temporarily in the Polls

September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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Just a Few Quick Thoughts – a Dozen Minus One – following the Dana Bash-Kamala Harris-Tim Walz Interview

August 30, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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: Pathetic Demise of a Once Great News Show, the Longest Running in America

August 25, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

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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CBS’s Media Embarrassment: Robert Costa’s Interview with Joe Biden on CBS’s Sunday Morning

August 11, 2024August 11, 2024 Richard E. Vatz, Ph.D

“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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