A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. (We'll comment on features we find obscure, unusual, or tricky.) B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
"It's past time that you and I and every other American asked some cold, hard questions."
"Who lost Iran?"
"Who lost Afghanistan?"
"Who lost Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?"
"Who crippled the FBI and the CIA?"
"Who sold the Russians computers and other sophisticated equipment, which have been used to stamp out freedom?"
"Who is keeping our kids from praying in school?"
"Who lets hardened criminals out on the street to kill, rape, and rob again before their victims are buried or out of the hospital?"
"Who says that America should do little if anything to help human beings who are daily being killed and beaten up by Marxist dictators?"
"The answer in every case is LIBERALS."
"But America is waking up to what the liberals have been doing to it."
"To quote Michigan professor Stephen Tonsor, 'New Deal liberals are as dead as a dodo. The only problem is they don't know it.'"
-Richard Viguerie, The New Right

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The Answer of A) Discuss any instances of nonargumentative persuasion or pseudoreasoning and explain any slanting techniques you find in the following passage. (We'll comment on features we find obscure, unusual, or tricky.) B) Rewrite the passage in language that is as emotively neutral as possible but still retains the same informational content.
"It's past time that you and I and every other American asked some cold, hard questions."
"Who lost Iran?"
"Who lost Afghanistan?"
"Who lost Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?"
"Who crippled the FBI and the CIA?"
"Who sold the Russians computers and other sophisticated equipment, which have been used to stamp out freedom?"
"Who is keeping our kids from praying in school?"
"Who lets hardened criminals out on the street to kill, rape, and rob again before their victims are buried or out of the hospital?"
"Who says that America should do little if anything to help human beings who are daily being killed and beaten up by Marxist dictators?"
"The answer in every case is LIBERALS."
"But America is waking up to what the liberals have been doing to it."
"To quote Michigan professor Stephen Tonsor, 'New Deal liberals are as dead as a dodo. The only problem is they don't know it.'"
-Richard Viguerie, The New Right

A) Discuss Any Instances of Nonargumentative Persuasion or Pseudoreasoning and Explain