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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.
I, a half-century professor of political rhetoric, first took a look today at ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopolous,” which
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Clemente was an All-Star for 15 years and the winner of 12 Gold Gloves. To watch his wizardry in right field was a thrill beyond thrills — the basket catches, the brilliant playing off the right field wall and more.
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Because MTP now has two major guests from opposite sides of the political spectrum, whereas from the beginning of Welker’s tenure through just a month or two ago, she always – and I mean always – had two from the Democratic left and one from the Republican right. And recently she has had, unlike in the past, strong and competent conservatives.
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I have always been fascinated by political interviews as a peek into the excellence or lack of it into major
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Each week the Sunday News Show “Meet the Press (MTP)” opens by describing itself as: “The longest running show in
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A president’s speech at The White House Correspondents’ Dinner is supposed to be light and funny and self-deprecating. Friday’s speech
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The American political lexicon is filled with clichés, of which some are regularly the object of ridicule, while others are
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Rep. Jamie Raskin is a longtime political office-holder in Maryland (for almost a decade) for the state’s 8th congressional district.
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Please accept my premise that there is not a serious current Democratic politician who can effectively be in presidential or
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Confession: I am a conservative who has been a devotee of the Southern Poverty Law Center since the 1970s. I
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