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In this article, Patrick Caldwell uses a hopeful diction to describe the most recent events in the House of Representatives. Since Mother Jones is a liberal and democratic based news organization, columnists like Caldwell are glad that the efforts to repeal Obamacare "could once again be in trouble". Caldwell describes the GOP as "hardcore conservatives", and appeals to pathos by showing that he strongly believes that all Republicans attempting to repeal Obamacare are leaning very much towards the right. Caldwell shows some more emotion when stating "Ryan's strategy for convincing his colleagues to support the bill seems to be to lie about what it actually does". He believes that Speaker of the House Paul Ryan is anti-Obama and wants to remove his healthcare act. Caldwell's purpose for writing this article is to show his audience that Paul Ryan desperately wants to gather Republican votes (since they are the majority in the House of Rep.) and repeal Obamacare. Caldwell wants to show his audience that Trump's new healthcare bill is actually much worse than Obamacare and that politicians like Ryan are only trying to help Trump pass the bill regardless of its benefits and lack of benefits for the general population of the United States.
Russ Choma, a popular contributer to Mother Jones, talks about President Trump's future meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping. Choma has an allusive diction in this news story. He starts off with saying that "Trump will bring his own personal business history and the conflicts of interest it entails," and " Trump sold a $15.8 million penthouse condo in his Trump Park Avenue building to a Chinese-American businesswoman named Angela Chen, who has extensive ties to China's ruling elite." Russ Choma develops a background story on Trump's economic and business past with China by including statements like "Trump, who already has more than 70 trademarks in China and almost 50 more requests pending, won the trademarks after spending a decade unsuccessfully making the case he deserved them." Choma has a critical tone when speaking about Trump's dealings in China, mainly because Trump wants to defend his image there and keep good relations with China. The columnist's purpose for this story is to show that Donald Trump plans to meet with president Xi Jinping to discuss his personal relations, rather than the United State's relations as a whole. Choma believes that this can cause a conflict of interest.
Blog Post 2: "Paul Manafort Tried to Help Russian Oligarch Suspected of Mob Ties Get a US Visa"3/22/2017 This article, written by David Corn, is about Paul Manafort's involvement with Russian organized crime before his transition to running and managing Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Corn has a very censorious and critical diction throughout the article. For example, he uses words like "notorious", "crony" and "secretly" to describe the people involved in the news story. These words show that Corn feels that Manafort kept his past very quiet so that he wouldn't have the media criticizing and questioning him. This also shows how Corn appeals to ethos throughout the article. David Corn disputes Paul Manafort's credibility by connecting him to "Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, a close Putin ally". It is no secret that the people of the United States feel that Russia had rigged the 2016 elections in Trump's favor, and this seems to support that thought. Corn displays an informative and relatively unbiased tone in his news story. "Manafort "proposed in a confidential strategy plan...that he would influence politics, business dealings and news coverage inside the United States, Europe and the former Soviet republics to benefit the Putin government." ". This is just one of other examples of his appeal to logos through stating facts and informative tone through referencing other credible sources. The purpose of this article was to uncover Trump's advisers and other partners. There are many ties with Russian officials and elites and Donald Trump himself, and this story's goal was to expose another connection between the two.
This specific article's author is Patrick Caldwell, a reporter at Mother Jones that is a part of their D.C. Bureau. It was published on Mother Jones's website on January 27, 2017. Patrick Caldwell creates an accusing diction in this article. For example, he says "Donald Trump repeatedly said that torture works, and that he would utilize techniques such as waterboarding and 'much worse' against ISIS fighters." (Caldwell, lines 1-3). The author feels that Trump is advocating for a terrible policy: " 'Mr. President, you've said before that torture works... you want to ban some Muslims from coming to America, you've suggested there should be punishment for abortion... those sound like alarming beliefs. What do you say to our viewers at home who are worried about some of your views and worried about you becoming the leader of the free world?' In typical Trumpian fashion, the new president lashed out at the slightest bit of media criticism. 'This was your choice of a question,' he said, clearly perturbed. 'There goes that relationship,' he darkly joked." (Caldwell, lines 14-16). Caldwell thinks that Trump is going too far when he talks about torture. Mother Jones is considered a "liberal" news source, and reporters like Caldwell are known to report on Donald Trump with a negative or unfriendly tone. But Caldwell also reports on Trump's decisions humorously. An example: " In typical Trumpian fashion," (line 14). The author creates the word "trumpian" to describe how Donald Trump always has his signature way of being honest careless. Caldwell's purpose in this article is to inform the public about Donald Trump's stance on utilizing torture methods on criminals to obtain information. "Even if the country isn't about to revive its torture program, it is noteworthy that the president of the United States said, during his first press conference since taking office one week ago, that if he had his druthers he'd order the nation's military forces to commit war crimes." (lines 41-44). The author makes it clear that Donald Trump strongly prefers to have torture as a primary interrogation technique. Patrick Caldwell argues that President Trump has many alarming beliefs and that he is careless and arrogant when questioned about them.
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