Debunking the resignation of earl Butz: Sacrificing an official racist

Klumpp, James F.; Hollihan, Thomas A.

doi:10.1080/00335637909383454

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“…Third, noting that Druyun faced up to five years in prison when sentenced in August, the newspapers helped vicariously absolve the public of social guilt by affirming the probable sufficiency of the punishment for the crimes committed. As Klumpp and Hollihan (1979) observe of scapegoating, ''Such rituals . .…”

Section: Rhetorical Cleansing As National Renewalmentioning

confidence: 98%

Framing of Elite Corruption and Rhetorical Containment of Reform in the Boeing-Air Force Tanker Controversy

Singer

2011

Southern Communication Journal

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Controversy surrounding a proposed lease deal between Boeing and the Air Force for one hundred 767 aircraft tankers unveiled the most serious case of crime at the Pentagon in recent history. After emerging publicly in 2003, the 23 billion-dollar plan led to the imprisonment of two top officials. Through an institutionally grounded rhetorical approach to news framing of the ordeal from 2003-2008, this essay confronts the tragic impulse of issue containment rhetoric, placing emphasis on Burke's (1969a) ''scapegoat mechanism.'' I critique the popular convention of episodically constructing temporary, isolated, and accessible causes for elite corruption and American greed. Moreover, I show that historical and systemic distortions prevent recognition of the limits of liberal ideology on collective social change under the hegemony of capitalism. In addition to offering a novel framework for future study, the investigation calls for further inquiry on the contested nature of discourses of nonpolitical consensus that prevent certain meanings from surviving mainstream storylines. The study also contributes to practice by examining opportunities for fracturing homogeneous coverage and constraints on meaningful policy reform in military-industrial contracting.

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Section: Rhetorical Cleansing As National Renewalmentioning

confidence: 98%

Framing of Elite Corruption and Rhetorical Containment of Reform in the Boeing-Air Force Tanker Controversy

Singer

2011

Southern Communication Journal

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“…In the history of American politics, sacrifices for the political order, or performances of the “cultural sociodrama of American ideology” (Klumpp & Hollihan, 1979, p. 3), are often the figurative sacrifice of killing one’s political career. For example, in the case of Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz, his political career was sacrificed after making a racist joke that became public “to atone for the disorder his slur had created” (Klumpp & Hollihan, 1979, p. 4). While the term scapegoating often connotes that the scapegoat has been wrongly accused, the scapegoat can be made “worthy of sacrifice” by being rhetorically constructed as the cause of the pollution (Burke, 1974, p. 40).…”

Section: Guilt-redemption Cycle In #Metoo Rhetoricmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rhetorical Constellations and the Inventional/Intersectional Possibilities of #MeToo

Bloomfield

2019

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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In this project, I analyze news coverage of the #MeToo movement to categorize how blame is assigned and what corrective actions are prescribed for the pervasive problem of sexual violence. Although it is tempting to scapegoat individuals, this practice often limits the scope of sexual violence to isolated cases. Transcendence is an alternative route to redemption that attributes blame to structural and societal forces. However, transcendence may erase intersectional differences and silence voices by overshadowing individual stories. I argue that the risks in focusing exclusively on either scapegoating or transcendence can be mediated through the lens of a rhetorical constellation. This approach calls for media and news coverage of #MeToo to attend to the specific circumstances of individual cases and to frame those unique people, voices, and stories as part of a series of interactions with other instances of sexual violence that constitute a call for societal change.

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“…Berger (1976) looked at the linguistic features and cultural influence of jokes, offering a framework for dissecting jokes that relies on incongruity, suddenness, and the exploitation of cultural norms. Klumpp and Hollihan (1979) critiqued the events surrounding the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz in response to his telling a racist joke. This article is unusual in that the authors sought to determine the conditions and effects of a joke in a political context.…”

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confidence: 99%

Prosodic enhancers of humorous effect in political speeches

Sayenko¹

2014

Argumentation in Context

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This dissertation offers a theory of the strategic use of rhetorical humor in political discourse. This theory accounts for the differences between intentional and unintentional humor while creating a structure for the identification of humorous utterances. The largest gap in the current state of knowledge concerning rhetorical humor is a lack of understanding regarding the connection between humorous attempts and persuasive situations. This area of concern is answered with a classification of the rhetorical strategies of humor. I propose three nested categories for the identification of actions that have amusement or laughter as an expected response. These three categories in order of increasing exclusivity are the risible, humor, and rhetorical humor. The risible includes all stimuli that create amusement, regardless of intention. The risible is not

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Debunking the resignation of earl Butz: Sacrificing an official racist

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

Framing of Elite Corruption and Rhetorical Containment of Reform in the Boeing-Air Force Tanker Controversy

Framing of Elite Corruption and Rhetorical Containment of Reform in the Boeing-Air Force Tanker Controversy

Rhetorical Constellations and the Inventional/Intersectional Possibilities of #MeToo

Prosodic enhancers of humorous effect in political speeches

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