Garrison Keillor's Very Interesting Rhetoric

[Doug McGill]

Here's a link in which readers of the St. Paul Pioneer Press respond to
Keillor's two rants against Norm Coleman that were published in Salon: 

http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/4568330.htm

The newspaper on Wednesday ran extensive excerpts of the two pieces, leaving
out Keillor's unsubstantiated suggestion of Coleman's adultery. 

However, Keillor made a much more serious accusation in the second Salon rant,
actually writing these words: "I personally don't believe [Coleman] had
anything to do with the crash of Paul [Wellstone's] plane. Plenty of people
suspect he did. I don't." He also called Coleman "evil" and critized the way
his eyes and forehead looked. They were "pleading" and "angry," respectively.
If there was ever an example of public discourse needing to be based on facts
and reason, not emotion, here it is. "His eyes are pleading, his forehead is
angry -- off with his head!" What type of person uses that kind of rhetoric? 

Doug

Doug McGill
The McGill Report
"Media for Global Citizens"
www.mcgillreport.org

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