Cooling Down the Current Political Rhetoric

About this episode

The episode discusses how to reduce the vitriol in current political rhetoric and features commentary on recent remarks by Jimmy Kimmel and the President.

How can we cut down on the current political rhetoric that's filled with vitriol and at times questionably dangerous speech? Late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel is under fire (again) for comments he made mocking the White House Correspondents' Dinner days before it occurred, saying Melania looks to have the "glow of an expectant widow", among other questionable comments. In other examples we've seen the President himself making nasty comments against his opponents. The rhetoric goes both ways, so we ask, as a society, how we can cool down the rhetoric on both sides? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Dan Rea

Topics covered

• political rhetoric
• media criticism
• societal discourse
• political commentary
• public speech

Keywords

• political rhetoric
• Jimmy Kimmel
• Melania
• White House Correspondents' Dinner
• society
• discourse
• speech

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: White House Correspondents' Dinner

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