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It's actually not rhetoric - it's a play on Bradbury's comment about e-readers "smelling like burned fuel" (read Fahrenheit 451 for the background of this).
That's almost the definition of rhetoric.
meaty
on Dec 7, 2012
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Not quite. It depends on the context. This was a pointer to issues, none of which are supporting the argument but are of secondary interest.
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That's almost the definition of rhetoric.