Read the article (attached in a link) and respond by analyzing The Senatorial candidate using an Aristotiliean Triangle. What choices seem to be made representing Speaker: Audience: Subject? What is the general Context and how does that affect his message?
In responses analyze the choices your peers notice, by explaining how they work in concert with the other elements of the triangle and help create an over-all message.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20657198/site/newsweek/
Remember to proof read and respond specifically to the article posted.
Thanks and good luck,
Mr. Holt
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The speaker (writer) who wrote this article doesn't seem to think that Al Franken is fit for running for U.S. Senate of Minnesota. He says this (without REALLY saying it) by pointing out how he's always joking, maybe implying that he is unreliable. And how he joked about gay marraige and S&M outifts that he may not be responsible and mature enough to have such a large role. I think he aimed his audience as (obviously) middle aged voters. They wouldn't want someone who was immature and completely outspoken to be their Senator. The author just seems to dismiss the fact of Franken running at all as a complete joke.
Aggy, this is a good start. Which rhetorical choices of Al Franken's does the author examine? The first half of this article is a very good example of how Context changes Speaker, Audience, and Subject (types of evidence).
Another way of asking: According to the article, how is Franken the candidate different from Franken the comedian? What choices does Franken have to make in order to make that distinction? Why does he have to change?
Aggy has touched on some of the points here, let's see what the rest of you say.
The speaker/writer of the article doesn't seem to see Al Franken as a worthy candidate for the U.S. Senate. Andrew Romano (the writer) uses quotes to show Franken as a little immature and somewhat unintelligent. Romano also included quotes of Franken stumbling over his words. For example, this quote was included: "As far as reading the news, I'm unhappy with falling be—of not being ahead of the curve." I think the author is trying to say that Franken doesn't do a good job seperating his life in comedy from his life as a polotician by showing him as not always being on his "A-game" politically.
The writer examins the rhetorical choices of Al Franken's words the most. When Franken is trying to use verbal rhetoric to prove he can be a good politician, Rowan throws it back by showing the stumbles as being worthy of only a comedian; not a politician.
Franken has to make rhetoric changes because voters don't want a comedian representing them- they want someone that they can trust to do a good job. His audience has changed from people that want laughs to people that want changes to benefit their state and their country. He probably has to change the way he presents himself in public. Things such as clothes, posture, and composure make a difference in winning or losing an election.
I agree with everything Wanada said with how Romano is pretty much letting everyone know that Franken is much too immature.
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