A little bit of everything
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.
Reading last Sunday’s Armstrong Williams’ Juvenile Justice Town Hall article in his Baltimore Sun “Owner’s Box” [February 25, 2024], as well as watching Fox 45’s Town Hall itself, one should find informative, thorough, and enlightening.
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Political pundits are ubiquitous and a dime-a-dozen, but the truly perspicacious and insightful are worth their weight in gold.Dana Perino is one of those few and is America’s most impressive political analyst.
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Even if you have been living under a rock, you surely have heard of the “shocking gaffe” that Presidential candidate, former South Carolina Governor, and United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley made over a week ago regarding the Civil War.
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Haley was clear and articulate in each of her answers. Her strong points continue to be her knowledge of all the material issues of the upcoming presidential election. She is the only one in the presidential race who recognizes the cruciality of supporting Ukraine against Russia.
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I am not going to fact-check this debate because there is no evidence that fact-checking hurts candidates unless one says that the Ku Klux Klan is his go-to source or that New York City is the capital of New York State.
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To my gleeful surprise, the “March for Israel” was strong, and bipartisan (no, Rashida Tlaib apparently couldn’t make it – she was busy looking up “From the River to the Sea” to prove that it meant swimming locations for Hamas sign-ups).
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All-out support of Israel’s goal of wiping out Hamas is risky; communicating indecision on point after point is riskier, and that’s what you can likely, but not certainly, expect from President Biden.
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War correspondents particularly interest me due to the voluntary life-threatening danger in which they put themselves and the difficulty of reporting, especially live when it is possible.
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There is a time-honored expression regarding war: “Truth is the first casualty.” This is indubitably true, especially in a world with so many sources of information, all of whom have their own agendas, independent of telling the truth, even if it takes some time to establish that truth.
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There is one candidate, the only one in recent months to whom I have made a contribution but with whom I have no ties, who represents a presidential candidacy I can support strongly: Nikki Haley, the former governor of South Carolina (2011-2017) and the 29th United States ambassador to the United Nations from January 2017 through December 2018.
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