In an us-against-them themed speech, Rodriguez said "violent fascists who are waging economic war on the people" would face justice.
But there's a more basic problem with Herbert's column -- and with a similarly themed speech that President Obama just delivered at the University of Texas (on Monday afternoon).
He used focus groups, for example, to test American reactions to the themes of speeches Reagan was to give a during a visit to Moscow in 1988.
Sylvia McNair, one of the world's pre-eminent sopranos, has commissioned the San Francisco composer Jake Heggie to turn themes of speeches by Hillary Clinton into operatic songs.
The president has not let up, sounding that same theme in speech after speech.
The second most popular theme for speeches, which Johnson ignored, was: look, helium is not a joke.
Criticism was slow in developing, but other party leaders continued to echo Mao's theme in speeches during the next year.
Goold continues the theme of speech-making on the heath, suggesting that Lear, a habitual leader, imagines his oratory is heard by the whole world as he launches into "Blow, winds..
Surprisingly her show at Hammerstein Ballroom on Tuesday, preceded by a recording of Bob Dylan's "Shelter From the Storm" and a short, Occupy-theme poetic speech by the writer and political activist Seth Tobocman, was, at first, pretty bad.
Image caption Nicola Sturgeon themed her speech around the word "inclusion" There are moments which try the soul.
