Affirming Denial through Preemptive Apologia: The Case of The Armenian Genocide Resolution
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begin on it. The analysis, conducted via a combination of genre theory and symbolic convergence theory (SCT), explores the ways in which Hastert subverted the traditional strategy of apologia, turning it from a defensive strategy into an offensive political-rhetorical weapon. Using his preemptive apologia, Hastert forced the country to accept the rhetorical analogue of denial, reshaping history as he did so to cover not only the crime of genocide, but his own crime of perpetuating it. The analysis concludes that attempts to employ preemptive apologia and/or analogues of denial place the rhetor into precarious rhetorical and ethical positions by forcing him or her to adopt impotent rhetorical postures.
This study examines House Speaker Dennis Hastert's use of preemptive apologia in the wake of his removal of House Resolution 596, the Armenian Genocide Resolution, from the House schedule ten minutes before debate was set to
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