As to the referral itself, we have seen or heard the media ask members the largely rhetorical question: Are you saying that lying under oath or obstruction of justice is not an impeachable offense?

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To me, the question he posed to the people was a rhetorical question.

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In the same interview, Giuliani asked a rhetorical question about how President Obama might handle Romney.

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But we have, in answer to the question of where are your spending cut proposals, it must be a rhetorical question because those who ask it know that we have put forward very specific spending cut proposals.

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Now the tax tail should never wag the economic dog so I am asking this as a real question, not a rhetorical one ?

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That morning I was at my mother's, and had asked the question of how she slept in a way I assumed would be as rhetorical as ever.

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