The following video is made by College Humor. It was made before the election. It shows what our world would be like if Obama or McCain won based on the political parties say about the opposing candidates.
Genre: Political Satire
Audience: Anyone familiar with politics
Purpose: To show that democrats or republicans are often too critical of the opposing party. They make them seem much more extreme than they really are.
Stance: One should not believe everything politicians say about the opposite party.
I believe this video is very effective. It is funny yet makes a great point that people should be realistic when listening to politicians about other parties.
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Ethos: This video was produced by College Humor. College Humor has a reputation of having humor within its videos. In this video, humor is used to strengthen the argument.
ReplyDeletePathos: This argument is filled with Pathos from beginning to end. The video can be divided into two scenes: What would happen if Obama won and what would happen if McCain had won. The opening music of the first scene is dark and loud to make the viewer scared had Obama won. It is then filled with ridiculous acts such as giving a scholarship to Yale to a toddler, illegal immigrants walking through a school hallway, terrorists coming into classrooms, a young girl wanting to watch pornography, and a father making her daughter smoke marijuana. Although humorous, these acts astonish the viewer as verbal criticisms are put into real world situations. The second part of the video is what would happen if McCain won. It once again starts with dark music to make the viewer feel they are about to enter a dark and inhuman world. This part of the video contains more ridiculous scenarios, such as being over patriotic in a classroom, a school not being able to afford ink because the school budget was not big enough, young students being drafted into the army, students trying to shoot each other, using an unnecessary amount of air conditioners, and government cameras being in households. These scenarios are once again humorous but should appeal to the common sense of the viewer. Democrat or republican, no one with practical values would support either world shown in the video.
Logos: This video does not have any documents or statistics in support of its argument because it assumes the viewer will have certain values and the video will be persuasive toward them.