As a teacher of English, I find myself stunned by the level of argument regulary presented by papers such as the Washington Times, the NY Post, commentators such as Coutler, Hannity, Limbaugh, and even those who consider themselves educated: the conservative writers on the staff of the NY Times and the Washington Post. Even though I deal with the written word, I do not have a good grasp of rhetoric and rhetorical terms used to fight back against these lies, except to call them lies. Well, I found a great website, and I would like to share it with you:
http://www.ramdac.org/...
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This website has wonderful terms to be used every time a republican liar opens his or her mouth. You can use them when you write to companies, boycotting their products because they advertise on Bill O'Reilly's show, you can use them when you write LTEs, you can use them when you call Hannity's show. Some of the ones up top are obvious, such as appeal to emotion, but a lot of the middle and bottom ones are ones we don't use too often, but are very, very true. Go read the example for Straw Man and tell me that it is not dead-on accurate for what the repubs regularly do.
So I hope this is helpful; perhaps bookmark it, and practice the terms here, as I plan to do.
And keep the fight.