America held hostage to a rhetorical tic? « The Greenroom: "A Smart Politics content analysis of the Public Papers of the Presidents finds that Barack Obama has used the word “hostage” as a metaphor more than any other president in U.S. history, and has spoken of figurative hostages vis-à-vis actual hostages at a rate 11 times higher than his predecessors."
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