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Daily Show: Teachers and Wall Street
03/05/11, 19:36
Phasebob, you're confusing the issue with presumptions about the role of satirists, or "comedians" as you call them, and the point of a rhetorical analysis.
Rhetorical analyses (of this type) aim to examine the means of persuasion and identify which means are successful and which are not.
The analysis is not about Stewart, it's about what are the effective ways one can persuade a group of people toward a particular situation. The petite analysis I provided uses Stewart's monologue as the framework for bringing out this tension between conservative and union values.
Whether Stewart as a satirist (or comedian as you called him) should do something or not is another question entirely. The issue is if one wishes to be successful in persuading the conservatives of the value of unions, then one would more effective rhetorically addressing the conservatives by values (ideological framework) that I suggested. |
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Daily Show: Teachers and Wall Street
03/05/11, 17:36
"Stewart needs to show how neglecting *HIS* position actually..." |
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Daily Show: Teachers and Wall Street
03/05/11, 17:34
I like this, however, I think it's worth saying that from a rhetorical standpoint that the act of identifying/exposing hypocrisy doesn't have an effect on those who hold the beliefs being exposed. The exposure of hypocrisy here is only serving to reinforce the views of the audience in which Stewart is a member. Or more simply, calling the conservatives hypocrites, showing how their position is hypocritical, does not induce change in the conservatives and only serves as self justifying propaganda for Stewart and his audience.
To persuade the conservatives to both consider and implement the values that Stewart and his audience advocate, Stewart needs to show how neglecting position actually weakens the conservative argument. For example, for Stewart's position to have efficacy, he would need to show that a weak teachers union (which means lower pay and benefits) harms the economy, harms the concept of individual liberty, is bad for business, etc.. |
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Six minutes of Rango
03/04/11, 00:43
I voted this out of the hopper just to spite you, btw. |
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Monty Python - Milkman
03/03/11, 20:32
=] |
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Minecraft Predator
03/03/11, 18:48
^^^ Also, even as played out as it is, I would have enjoyed a "Get to the chopper!" |
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At the pub with a dozen dudes
03/03/11, 18:45
I wanted to give this four, but three seems right. I liked it. |
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The President's Speech
03/02/11, 23:10
http://poetv.com/video.php?vid=11637 |
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The President's Speech
03/02/11, 20:50
I still think the Andy Dick skit where he played a speechwriter for GWB justifying the mistakes was the most brilliant satire on Bush ever. |
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US ARMY Overnight Airmail
03/02/11, 13:40
Here's a vid where you can see the parachutes deploy for a humvee drop. Watch for random spaces in the url:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6G4gUHJADk |
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US ARMY Overnight Airmail
03/02/11, 11:09
I'll just add that the description was a play on how much international shipping costs. Try fedexing something from the west coast to EU that weighs 3 pounds; over a hundred dollars. Totally ridiculous.
Anyway, the description was a gag and not a commentary on military spending. Politics aside, I think it's pretty awesome the Army can deliver 4 humvees out of the back of a plane. |
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Hyena eats adult elephant
03/02/11, 00:12
"Fantastic. Absolutely amazing." Indeed. |
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420 smoke weed laced with AIDs medication and rat poison everyday
03/01/11, 20:48
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420 smoke weed laced with AIDs medication and rat poison everyday
03/01/11, 20:48
Your statement lacks empathy, so insofar as it is representative of you at the point of its utterance, you lack empathy. But that's not to say you are 100% without empathy all the time. |
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420 smoke weed laced with AIDs medication and rat poison everyday
03/01/11, 17:58
Jangbones, you are trying to make some point by doing a funny math of 'outrages' whereby you say the value of outrages A negate the value of outrages B because we are somehow already acquainted with outrages A. Or something like this.
However, I think you miss the point. The outage from the scenes in this video are such because tragedy involved, which is to say, the outrage is a reaction to one's sense of morality and ethical judgments triggered by this video. This is also why people doing heroin and crack and whatever else is outrageous and morally troublesome.
BOTH the things you mention AND this video are outrageous, tragic and morally troublesome.
I get that one way to react to morally troublesome phenomena is to try and trivialize or negate them, as you have done. I just think that act in itself is also morally troublesome because it is inherently selfish, lacking the empathy tragedy deserves.
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Chris-chan's Autism Tutorial, Part 2
03/01/11, 00:21
ED Article had them at one point. |
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Portlandia - The Bike Clip
02/28/11, 22:10
Me too in SF and East Bay! |
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Cat staves off mangy fox
02/28/11, 11:20
Fat, indoor, lazy cat realizes it can ignore the fox and just go inside to where wet food shows up. |
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Riverdale
02/28/11, 04:38
No one should be allowed to use that song anymore unless they want their audience to think 'ass-to-ass' while it plays. |
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Driver tries to kill cyclists in Critical Mass Porto Alegre, Brazil
02/28/11, 02:31
For the US, anyway, maybe someone can explain to me since bikes are given the same rights as cars in the street by many State vehicle codes, why does traffic caused by bicycles warrant violence and not traffic by autos?
Trick question, it doesn't you fucking imbeciles. |
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