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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

The Trump Tower (Of Babble)


(More than enough time and space has already been wasted on the megalomaniacal Donald Trump.  I hate to add to it, but my topic here is not his paper-thin substance, but instead his diabolically effective rhetorical technique.)
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"Word salad" -- a semantically incoherent jumble of tossed-together words and phrases.
Often used by schizophrenics, and by athletes and politicians trying to sound smart.  For example, almost anything Sarah Palin has ever said is word salad.

If Palin is word salad, then Donald Trump is the entire buffet, a word smorgasbord in a blender, a verbal vomitorium.  Given the slightest opening, he'll shout rapid-fire, unconnected, half-thoughts endlessly.  He bounces around like a fart in a skillet, and there's no "off" switch.  His word count goes off the charts!

By the time someone finally stops him, he's barfed up sound-bites on 17 topics so quickly that everyone is confused, no one can remember where he began, what he was talking about, or why, or if it made any sense at all.  But it sure was amusing.  And his babble apparently impresses those 'Muricans raised on Limbaugh and Hannity.

Volume.  Spectacle.  Noise and fury signifying nothing.    


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