The Rhetoric Beat

I know we were not assigned anything to post about Cunningham's article "The Rhetoric Beat" but I enjoyed it so much I need to just vent about it. I found this idea fascinating. I have never studied it before, or even heard of it. The media and government's use of the word war and war-like language during 9/11 and after is so true. I began thinking back to the coverage I saw on that fateful day and I actually remember the most horrible image I saw where a man was falling out of the WTC building and people were running from the dust and rubble and the ticker lower third said America at War? Just simply using this is a great example. I think that we were all so shocked and scared by the acts of 9/11 that war seemed the only natural response to us. We felt so threatened and vulnerable I think we needed to feel like we were on top again and war seemed the only way in which we could reassert our strength.