When A Crackpot Runs For President By Nicholas Kristof

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Nicholas Kristof’s article “When a Crackpot Runs for President” is an unbiased analysis with a neutral perspective about how people in the United States vote for their future president and how the two candidates: Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton perform so far. However, rhetorically and critically analyzing the article, we can see that his underneath purpose is to criticize both of the politicians.
Kristof tries to present himself in an unbiased and neutral perspective when he mentioned the wrong thing that both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton did and supported it with proper evidence. Besides, he also presented statistics from CNN and ORC poll, which showed Trump had advantages, and PolitiFact website, …show more content…

This is more obvious when he gave an example of how people viewed President Gerald Ford and President Jimmy Carter through media in paragraph 2 and compared “George W. Bush’s misstatements with Gore’s dramatic sighs” in paragraph 3. Kristof put his audience in the situation where they have themselves if their perspective rational or not. Furthermore, he also wondered record does not fall into the pitfall, “perceive politics through narratives.” After showing his main purpose, Kristof intended to criticize both of the candidates, which is his underneath purpose. In paragraph 13, Kristof addressed Hillary Clinton as a dishonest politician while Trump is a fraud who steal money through Trump University. Although he tried to respect the audience by keeping the neutral point of view, it still heavy to read the article for Trump’ or Clinton’ …show more content…

Besides people who is interested in the presidential election can be the secondary audience of the article. Kristof tried to provide a neutral and unbiased point of view about the election. No matter who you are supporting, the article still judges both of the politicians. Moreover, Kristof stated that “we are in the news media have sometimes fallen into the trap of glib narratives or false equivalencies, he wanted to deliver his message to the article secondary audience, journalist, and people work in media industry, that “we should try hard to ensure that doesn’t happen again” (paragraph 18). Overall, Kristof wanted to encourage his audience to think carefully and critically when they choose one politician to

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