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| Yes, how else will people learn to do it properly |
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| ...what? |
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 Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 12:43 am
Ann Coulter and Michael Savage are two people who knowingly rant and rave -- they exaggerate and insult -- in ways that they would likely never do face to face with the person they are savaging. Others who understand this have called it "being curmudgeonly".
It's the way your old coot of an uncle at Thanksgiving goes on and on about groups of people he probably wouldn't even glare at if they were in the room. Or how a strict teacher might be called Stalinist. Everyone understands that the strict teacher did not, in fact, kill millions of humans and mismanage a country and frame and destroy all threats to her power. It is a gross exaggeration meant to illustrate that the teacher, is, perhaps, a meanie who had a student unfairly suspended. Her students may live in terror of her, but her reign is short and her power over their lives limited. Even the "terror" is an exaggeration.
It's a useful tool when taken in the right context, ranting is. The anger of it makes one pay attention.
Sadly when the Left rants, everyone seems to take it seriously..."everyone" being people who have mics. Mayors, politicians, disk jockeys, singers, actors, directors, producers, writers, journalists...instead of seeing it as hyperbole they take it as fact.
Should ranting be outlawed? (And if it is, to be fair it has to be for both sides).
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Posted: Sun Jul 29, 2007 11:34 pm
(I happen to be in a ranting mood at the moment, so...)
WTF? NO!! Ranting is a very important right that I, for one, exercise frequently. Some people should be taken out and shot for taking someone's ranting too seriously, but the ranter him/herself should not face any consequences.
There was an article awhile ago about Ann Coulter being confronted by someone's wife about her rant about how they use their son's death in politics too much... I think it was Jon Edwards' wife... Anyway, I guess she stuck to what she had been saying even when confronted. Admittedly, it was over the phone, not face to face, but still.
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Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 2:13 pm
i believe that ranting shouldn't be outlawed because, i mean, come on, everyone rants!!! the entire population would be in jail except for a few sad people who don't have opinions... they should just be nicer when ranting.
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:35 pm
I do think people should be trained in it. Rhetoric used to be a requirement in class. It was kicked out along with Latin and other so-called useless and outdated classes, but actually it still has a very strong use today. Speech class just doesn't cut it.
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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 8:35 pm
Outlaw ranting! Free speech is next. yet it's something those Crazy liberals would try to do. first they take away our guns, and now they want to take away the right to incessently ramble on and on about God knows what beacues we dislike it so much. i have many a rant and tangent that i go on, and no one legged son of a bilge rat is going to say i can't. by golly, i'll have the bigest nastiest rant you can think of if they try that, i will smear thier ignorance acros the vast halls of the internet and slam thier puny law into the brick wall that is freedom. and then i shall eat pudding.
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