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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.
Sunday, May 11 NFL Kansas City Chief placekicker Harrison Butker gave the Commencement address at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas; Some of his remarks relevant to the ensuing controversy follow
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Seemingly out of the blue, the 2024 presidential debates have been set. I have a long history of writing about
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At Morgan State University, there was a largely disappointing mayoral debate Wednesday evening on WBAL Television moderated by the knowledgeable WBAL Radio hosts Jayne Miller, C-4, and Maryland Public Television’s Jeff Salkin.
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Certainly, the argument is strong that Dick Cheney made it much more likely that George Bush would win two elections, 2000 and 2004; Sarah Palin was surely significant in McCain’s loss in 2008 and Kamala Harris will be blamed, perhaps correctly, if Trump wins in 2024.
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Last night President Joe Biden’s SOTU was memorable and the Republican response was strong, but the former is the topic of this article.
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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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