“Apophasis” is a favorite Greek term of James Taranto, the great Wall Street Journal opinion editor. It’s a rhetorical device by which someone sneakily raises a subject by saying they will not mention it.
CNN host Audie Cornish gave a perfect illustration of the term on today’s CNN This Morning. In a discussion of the Trump administration’s deportation of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang members, which some claim violated a judge’s order, Cornish said:
“This is one of those things that people end up talking about constitutional crisis. I will try not to kickoff Monday with that term, but . . . “
Nicely played, Audie! And by the same token, we’re not going to raise the issue of your blatant liberal bias, despite the abundant evidence thereof!
At the end of the segment, Lourdes “Lulu” Garcia-Navarro, formerly an NPR host, now of the New York Times,…
