During the presidential debate on September 10th I didn’t expect to hear a baseless claim from Donald Trump about Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio eating pet dogs and cats

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is a YouTube video at Jimmy Kimmel Live on September 10, 2024 titled Jimmy Kimmel breaks down the presidential debate between Donald Trump & Kamala Harris. Of course, the ABC News moderator fact-checked Trump. And on September 11, 2024 an article at BBC News by Merlyn Thomas & Mike Wendling agreed that Trump repeats baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating pets. And yet another article by Kayla Epstein and Sam Cabral at

BBC News on September 12, 2024 titled Ohio leaders dismiss claims of migrants eating pets described how:

 

“‘This is something that came up on the internet, and the internet can be quite crazy sometimes,’ Ohio [Republican] Governor Mike DeWine told CBS News, the BBC's US partner.”

 

Still another article by Adam Shaw at Fox News on September 11, 2024 titled Focus group reacts to Trump claim that migrants are ‘eating the dogs’ in Ohio town discussed how when Trump made the claim, approval from all groups — Republicans, independents and Democrats — dipped, with the strongest dips coming from independents and Republicans [~75% to 50%], while Democratic approval remained low.

 

And an article by Jasmine Garsd at NPR on September 11, 2024 titled The stereotype of immigrants eating dogs and cats is storied – and vitriolic as ever said that Asians previously had been disparaged with that false claim.

 

My cartoon was adapted from images of a dog and plate at Openclipart.

 

Donald Trump now claims that nobody was killed in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Before Joe Biden dropped out of his re-election campaign after an awful debate, the Trump campaign emphasized how Joe was too old and confused to run at age 81. But Donald is just slightly younger at 78 and sometimes quite confused.

 

Ashli Babbitt was shot during the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, as is described in a Wikipedia page titled Killing of Ashli Babbitt. An article by Io Dodds at the Independent on January 2, 2022 titled Trump’s ‘manufactured martyr’: How Ashli Babbitt’s death was weaponized by the MAGA movement discussed that:

 

“Mr. Trump himself has been her cheerleader in chief, referring to her death as a murder. and offering her family his ‘unwavering" support’. ‘To Ashli’s family and friends, please know that her memory will live on in our hearts for all time,’ he said in a video specially filmed for her birthday on 10 October. ‘There was no reason Ashli should have lost her life that day. We must all demand justice for Ashli.’ "

 

But in a news conference this month Donald instead claimed that no one was killed on January 6th, as shown in this YouTube video. And another article at apnews on August 8, 2024 titled FACT FOCUS: A look at claims made by Trump at news conference reminded us:

 

“Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from San Diego, was shot and killed by a police officer as she climbed through a broken part of a Capitol door during the violent riot. Trump has often cited Babbitt’s death while lamenting the treatment of those who attended a rally outside the White House that day and then marched to the Capitol, many of whom fought with the police.”

 

Yet another article by Domenico Montanaro at npr on August 11, 2024 titled 162 Lies and distortions in a news conference. NPR fact-checks former President Trump lists “Nobody was killed on Jan. 6th” as Number 102.

 

The NOPE poster was modified from this one at Openclipart.

 

The Art & Science of Original Oratory: a free e-book on public speaking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you were looking for a free e-book about public speaking (and debate), then I just found one you could download. It is the 111-page 2021 updated .pdf edition of The Art & Science of Original Oratory by Ashley Mack, which can be found at the web site for the National Speech & Debate Association.

 

I found it via a Google phrase search including “filetype:pdf”. But curiously it doesn’t seem to be on their Resources page for Coaching Speech.

 

This e-book has 13 examples. You can look at an abstractive summary of it by Augusto Frederico at Medium on June 27, 2018.

 

Silhouettes of two people arguing were adapted from an image at Openclipart.