Thanks for the links. I'll post a bibliography below for my citations, but $9 for a 4 or 5 page short story by Blanchot is steep. You can buy 500 pages of essays and stories for $11 used: http://www.amazon.com/The-Station-Hill-Blanchot-Reader/dp/1886449171

Blanchot, Maurice. The Gaze of Orpheus. Trans. Lydia Davis. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 1981.

Bush, George W. et al. "2003 State of the Union." http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/
releases/2003/07/20030711-7.html

Chatman, Seymour. Story and Discourse: Narrative Structure in Fiction and Film. Ithaca, NY: Cornell U. Press, 1980.

Danner, Mark. "Words in a Time of War: On Rhetoric, Truth and Power," in Szántó, András, What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics (New York: Public Affairs, 2007), 17.

Derrida, Jacques. "White Mythology," Margins of Philosophy. Trans. Alan Bass. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982. Originally published in Poétique 5 (1971).

----------. "The Law of Genre." Acts of Literature. Trans. Avital Ronnell. New York, NY: Routledge, 1992.

Frank, Thomas. What's the Matter with Kansas? New York, NY: Holt, 2005.

Hurlburt, Heather. "Speechwriting and Presidential Culpability," The Globalist, 7/23/2003. http://www.theglobalist.com/StoryId.aspx?StoryId=3336

Kinsley, Michael. "Who is Buried in Bush's Speech?" Slate, 7/14/2003.
http://www.slate.com/id/2085612

Lakoff, George. Don't Think of an Elephant. New York, NY: Chelsea Green, 2005.

Suskind, Ron. "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush." The New York Times Magazine, 10/17/2004.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?_r=1&ex=1255665600&en=890a96189e16207 6&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland