Prometheus 6

One of the reasons I've hesistated to give out rhetoric lessons and such in the past was the fear that people would mistake rhetorical technique to support one's position for reasoning methods to establish one's position. Rhetoric produces a line drawing of the photograph that is our reasoned (or chosen!) position. We can agree the line drawing looks like our photograph but the impact of each image is different; the impact of the line drawing dependsas much on what you leave out as what you include.

Juan Williams' Getting Past Katrina is based on a line drawing of history.

A YEAR ago this week, the entire nation caught a chilling look in the mirror. We watched as the citizens of New Orleans, clutching their essential belongings in plastic trash bags, struggled through fetid flood waters in search of shelter. But even with all that’s been said and written on this painful anniversary, one of the real issues remains unaddressed.