Garrison Keillor's Very Interesting Rhetoric

Doug McGill dougmcgill at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 21 13:39:58 PST 2002


St. Paul Pioneer Press readers respond to Keillor's two recent rants against Norm Coleman published in Salon:

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

On Wednesday the Pioneer Press 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!"

Let's think: 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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