I am immediately drawn to political opinion pieces. The ones that grab me are either by people I agree with and get me all worked up, passionate and thinking about the topic, OR either by people I completely disagree with and want to throw something at when I read what they have to say. If the piece is written about something I don't care about or have heard time and time again, I wont even finish it.
All the rhetorical strategies play a part on me. Statistics work unless I have knowledge that contradicts or makes me question those statistics. Like I said earlier, I can get very angry or passionate when reading a piece. And I immediately went to the blogs of people I know (Michael Moore, Bill Maher, Glenn Beck etc) to find a piece simply because of their credentials. Kairos, (rhetorical timing), is probably why politics most affect me. It's contraversial, current, and something affecting me today.
I have found so many pieces that I would like to respond to, I'm not sure how I'm going to choose one.
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