“But Obamamania is pretty mild stuff compared to our rhetorical history. When William Jennings Bryan finished his Cross of Gold speech at the 1896 Democratic convention, extending his hands outward in cruciform melodrama, witnesses described a 40-minute riot, with ‘hills and valleys of shrieking men and women’ and old men ‘crying bitterly, great tears rolling from their eyes into their bearded cheeks.’ After Douglas MacArthur addressed a joint session of Congress in 1951, Rep. Dewey Short shouted: ‘We heard God speak here today, God in the flesh, the voice of God!’”
Words Aren’t Cheap. [Real Clear Politics]
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