This is one of my favorite clips from the West Wing, a show which is riddled with remarkable rhetoric. Watch and enjoy.
In this passage President Bartlett uses two rhetorical figures of speech to lay a smackdown on the apparent Christian fundamentalist. He uses the figure exemplum, which is the citation of an authority, in this case, the Bible. He also punctuates each example with a biting rhetorical question. Rhetoric is everywhere, we just need to pay attention.
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