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Women's National Press Club By Clare Boothe Luce

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In the opening of her speech at the Women’s National Press Club, journalist and politician Clare Boothe Luce pokes fun at the irony of her situation, analyzes what journalism truly is, and highlights the difficulties of journalism as a whole in order to encourage her audience to “bear with” her, as she criticizes the faults of the American press. Perchance. Luce makes her first point in the beginning of the speech by poking fun at the irony of the speech itself. “I stand here at this rostrum invited to throw rocks at you. You have asked me to tell you what is wrong with you - the American press.” Luce highlights this discrepancy in order to force her audience to reflect on the situation surrounding the speech. By revealing her contradictory

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