Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is the story of an honest man, Jeff Smith, who is appointed to the senate when a senator from his state dies. Jeff is honest, patriotic, and nave. He soon learns that Washington is a dirty place where graft is the golden rule, and congressmen take orders from greedy money-men. Jeff tries to keep his integrity, but soon he is framed by the richest man in his state, Taylor. Jeff fights Taylor on the floor of the senate until he is triumphant.
By stating this he is suggesting that in this country it is not about what you know but who you know. Sadly meaning a mediocre education has the same amount of significance as a spectacular education. This strategy can bring the audience closer to his side because he is proving the fact that our nation is in fact ran by idiots. Another rhetorical strategy Moore proposes is the use of a sarcastic tone throughout his excerpt. “Chances are, the genius representing you in the legislature won’t score 50 percent on the above test” (Moore 132).
Senator Paine has made an argument that is both extremely immoral and also very smart. He says that in order to run your district well you have to “play ball” and do some dirty work to accomplish your goals. In the movie Paine makes deals with someone in order to get particular votes in his favor. As a member of the senate, Paine is trying to please his people by giving them what they want, and if you must do some immoral tasks to do this then so be it. As Machiavelli said, “The ends justify the means.” As long Senator Paine is doing these things for the good of the state rather than the good of himself, it is necessary to make these compromises of one’s principles.
Glenn mainly cares about how many followers he can obtain while he himself indoctrinates them to hate Obama because on almost every episode of his show he does not fail at portraying Obama as a deceiving, untrustworthy, and horrible president. Glenn chooses words that usually have a negative connotation when talking about President Obama or the government most of the time. Glenn used the word indoctrination and children to scare parents to think their children were having a democratic agenda being pushed on them but that is not necessarily the case. Glenn Beck’s main goal is to make people hate and dislike Obama and the democratic party whether he uses facts or
Varvel is against this and uses privacy as main theme of his cartoon. In the political cartoon, Gary Varvel uses various rhetorical strategies to express his opinion that interfering with people’s privacy is wrong. Cartoonist, Gary Varel, appeals to logos persuading the readers against NSA’s work as there will be one day when people’s private information will be revealed through media. He appeals to ethos by displaying irony of the situation i.e. the guy with the newspaper is shocked to see the news about his children in TV and he appeals to ethos by drawing viewer’s attention towards NSA’s work.
He uses the straw man fallacy, which is achieved when one opponent distracts the audience from the opposing opponent’s position so that it makes them appear ignorant. He masters this fallacy when saying, “President Obama would be running for re-election based on his achievements… and rightly so. But because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversion, distractions, and distortions” (par. 12). When using the straw man fallacy, Romney tries to make Obama look foolish and act as though Obama’s next term in the Presidency will be helpless.
This decision ends up backfiring which leads Democrats (and now some Republicans) to strengthen their aversion towards him. Taking this decision into consideration, as well as all of the evidence we have on Romney for being a “flip flopper”, people may begin to feel differently towards this man being the right choice for America. It seems that this close to the election, Americans are still trying to figure out the real, truthful views of Mitt
Name calling: This techniques aims to arouse opposing to the competing product, candidate, or policy by associating it with negative images. By comparison, one’s own product, candidate, or policy is attractive. Republicans who call Democrats soft on crime and Democrats who call Republicans insensitive to the poor are using this technique (Calhoun, 2002). Essentially the opposite of the first technique, this one surrounds the product, candidate, and/or policy with images that arouse positive feelings. She’s a real Democrat has little meaning, but it makes the audience feel that something substantive has been general that it is meaningless; yet the audience thinks that it has heard a specific message about the candidate(Allan, 2006).
Bias Analysis #1: Long Editorial I know not one person whom believes that the new reported on television is not liberally biased. I often come home to find my father complaining about the media’s slant towards democratic views yet he is frequently preaching what they report as fact. These so called “truthful” accounts are delivered in a similar way as the orchestrated scenes of movie; just as movies are created to induce a certain emotion or address a question, media coverage is meant to fuel paranoia and incite a desire for change which would benefit a minority of people. In Bernard Goldberg’s book Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News, he attempts to tackle the issue of liberal media bias in the large East-coast news organizations. In his narrative, Goldberg begins by explaining his current situation of exile from media coverage despite his 28 years of service.
The media helps shape opinions on politics. The media uses propaganda to make us think a certain thing. For example if you watch MSNBC you would most likely be a democrat, but if you watch FOX then you would most likely be a republican. These different news stations are not democratic or republican news stations per say but they do lean towards a certain side, which can influence what your opinion on what you believe since they only tell you things that are promoting their political choice. All of these factors have played and are