Rhetoric

I really enjoyed the clips from "Thank You for Smoking". This was not my first time seeing this movie and if you have never seen it, it is definitely worth the hour and change it takes to watch it. This movie was a prime example of rhetoric. 

When I think of rhetoric I think of someone using/manipulating words to get the audience on their side. Sometimes the speaker's goal is not to persuade the audience to see it this way, but just to discredit the opposition. A goal is sometimes to distract from the obviously negative things they are supporting such as smoking.