"A January 6 can and will happen again, because the architects are still able to do their thing unimpeded," Andy Campbell says. By telling the Proud Boys to “stand by” during one of the 2020 presidential debates, Donald Trump brought the street gang to a new...
Most of Trump’s attack on DeSantis sounded very…Democratic. Accusing Republicans of wanting to cut, or completely eliminate, Medicare and Social Security? That could have come from the Democratic attack machine any time in the last 50 years. In fact, Trump’s attack resembled, in spirit at least, President Joe Biden’s taunting of Republicans at the State of the Union address on Feb. 7, when he accused the GOP of seeking to kill Medicare and Social Security
Using The Social Dilemma Transcript this lesson tries to understand the influences Social Media has on the community and what should we do about it. Updated March 27, 2023
Ethos, Pathos & Logos: Aristotle’s Modes of Persuasion The Greeks are good at a lot of stuff. Weddings. Smashing plates. Growing (and marinating) olives. But, unbeknownst to many, they also have a rich history in advertising. Before there was Ogilvy, there was...
Conservative Approach to Public Speaking A post caught my eye The New Bible for Public Speaking. It's from townhall.com, a very conservative media outlet. And while the author mentions Trump in this piece, it is still important. The take-aways from this post are:...
Communication with Diplomacy and Tact Defined generally as communicating in ways that instill good feelings in others and avoid creating bad feelings, communicating with diplomacy and tact requires specific linguistic and nonlinguistic considerations. This course...
Avoid the “Messenger Mindset” So often in preparing to communicate, we make a fundamental mistake: we enter a messenger mindset. Rather than establishing a clear goal and aiming to persuade our audience, we set out to inform, to update, to share. On this path, we end...
Communication is about getting what you want When I go to a restaurant and I give the waiter my order, I am communicating that I want the waiter to tell the Cook to make something and when it is ready to bring it to me. I communicate to get food. Getting what you...
Source: 7 Forces Driving America Toward Civil War – John Hawkins Posted: Apr 21, 2018 7:40 AM The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not represent the views of Townhall.com. I was interviewed by a mainstream media reporter yesterday. I thought he...
Republican Greg Gianforte speaks to supporters after being declared the winner at a election night party for Montana’s special House election (Photo by Janie Osborne/Getty Images) Republican Greg Gianforte, who won Montana’s special election despite an election-eve...
The 8 Key Elements of Highly Effective Speech…and why your words barely matter! Published on July 10, 2012 by Mark Waldman and Andrew Newberg, M.D. in Words Can Change Your Brain I’d like you to take a moment to experience the following sentence, taken from a recent...