I only caught about a half hour or so, but the Bill Moyers special "Buying the War" seems like it would be of great use in a rhetoric class. It's essentially an analysis of media coverage during the run up to the war in Iraq. What this means is that focus throughout (or at least what I saw) is on evidence, argumentation, credibility, tone and the like. While much of it is a critique of current journalistic practices, there's a whole lot going on that could be brought into the classroom.

Clay writes of TeacherTube - it's YouTube for teachers. I'm not sure what the audience is for most of these videos, but it might be a nice place to distribute video teaching materials to a wider audience.

Then again, it might also just be more teacher-ish version of YouTube:

A colleague just sent an email about Fora.tv to our graduate student listserv. It's a repository for speeches, discussions, and debates that seems like it would be extremely useful to teachers in English and Rhetoric classes. A description from the site:

FORA delivers discourse, discussions and debates on the world's most interesting political, social and cultural issues, and enables viewers to join the conversation. It provides deep, unfiltered content, tools for self-expression and a place for the interactive community to gather online.

I just stumbled across a bizarre little video entitled Gimme the Mermaid. It involves a mermaid, a seriously aggressive lawyer, and human figures with cat heads. If you're doing Lessig, like visual rhetoric, and want an ambitious paper prompt, you could ask students to do a rhetorical analysis of it. It's so delightfully bizarre ... it's just begging for explication.

I should also add that it was featured on illegal-art.org.