NP; Good as Gold: rhetorical questions

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It is a question and it is rhetorical, so there's at least a minor joke in there, though I don't believe that's what people conventionally mean by rhetorical question nowadays. See "hypophora".


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On Saturday, January 5, 2019 5:39 AM, Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Just to make sure I got this right. In the following passage, Lieberman
> first says "No more rhetorical questions", then immediately proves himself
> wrong by using a rhetorical question in his own article. Is that correct?
>
> Producing from somewhere inside his soiled and rumpled clothing a copy of
> the next issue of his magazine, he swept open the pages until he at last
> found the one he wanted, his regular feature boldly headlined “An Outspoken
> Editor Speaks His Mind, by M. G. Lieberman, Editor.” “Listen to what I’ve
> got coming up,” he cried with excitement and prepared to read. “No more
> rhetorical questions,” he exclaimed and began, “‘What, then, shall we say
> to those who argue this may lead us into war? I say, unflinchingly, then
> let us have war.’ How’s that? I express nothing but opprobrium and scorn
> for the failure of nerve of all the members of the cowardly Eastern liberal
> establishment. That’s a phrase,” he could not hold himself back from
> footnoting, “I got from Henry Kissinger.”
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