Stephen Colbert

The Context

Subject: Roe v. Wade was the court case in 1973 that legalized abortion in the United States of America

A few days ago, on Stephen Colbert's show, he spoke about abortion and that Supreme Court was trying to overturn the law.He goes on to reference different videos showing different Republican politicians avoiding the discussion of the fact that they had won the overturn of Roe v Wade.

Biography-Stephen Colbert is Actor, Political Commentator, and Comedian. Stephen got his education at Northwestern University. He has three children and is married to Ayun Halliday.What have his points of views been in the past? Are his points of views leaning towards republican or democrat

Colbert over the last 10 years seems to be leaning more towards democratic ideology, even attempting to run as a Democratic presidential candidate.

The Issue:

• Republicans focusing on the leak
• Republicans focusing on how democrats are using this leak as a diversion to the current events (i.e. inflation)

Supreme Court brings up Roe v. Wade rule for abortion basically from now war.

Yet, back in 2021, a Gallup Poll asked what people the most critical problem facing the 1% answered abortion by March of 2022, that number was 0.

Supreme Court is on the verge of overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling, raising many questions about the implications of such a momentous decision and exactly in legal history.

Key Point- The Supreme Court is poised to overturn the constitutionally protected right to abortion ensured by the nearly 50-year-old Roe v. Wade decision, according to a leaked initial draft of the new opinion obtained by Politico.

Allowing abortion or not is a big argument because America is known as a free country.

Yet, every woman has the right to choose the way they feel good enough for them, their life.

Republicans focused on the unpleasant argument and led them the wrong way. For example, many people who trusted them got very limber and will never vote for them.

On the other hand, if we look at this argument from the other side, we can see that US politicians who point out the middle casters' culture in bad light work so hard to promote the same cultural aspects from the past of their own culture.

The fact that they are trying to claim this is somehow a "win" for Democrats goes to show that they see this whole thing as some "game,'' rather than something that could potentially ruin lives. The decision that they are trying to make doesn't benefit anyone, it only hurts people. All they care about is if their "side" is "winning."

The Source

Credibility:

TV Host- 2.95 Million followers

Political commentator-more info

In 2007, Colbert attempted to run for the president, he was later denied a place on the ballot by the democratic executive council. He has supported democratic parties, raising over $180,000 in donations to South Carolina Schools in honor of Presidential candidates, at the time were President Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton. Again, in 2012 he made another statement about potentially running for president. Colbert has been involved in political events since then.

He also spent years as a cast member of the daily show which was a comical news series.

Comedian

Fox news clips

What is Stephen Colbert's agenda -maggie

Youtube clip of the Stephen Colbert show

The argument-Clearly identify the argument. Present the premises and conclusion in your chosen article or video clip and explain their importance. Did the speakers/writers use deductive or inductive reasoning?

Argument: consists of two parts-one part of which (the premises) is intended to provide a reason for accepting the other part (conclusion)

Explain why you think the argument fits this concept. Also, identify if this was purposeful and why, and how this affects the strength of the argument.

(Implied)

INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT - "generalizing from a sample"

An argument in which you inductively conclude that all or most of some percentage of all the members of a population have an attribute because all or most or some percentage of the members of a sample of the population have that attribute

Premise: Republicans accuse Democrats of using this leak to avoid addressing issues on inflation and or other critical present affairs.

Premise: Republicans are not focusing on the current issues of banning abortion, but rather on how or the reasoning of why it was leaked.

Conclusion: The republicans don't want to talk about banning abortions.

Stephen C is a host who purposely gives his viewers a democratic point of view, he deflects the focus on the opposing spectrum. The "Generalizing from sample" argument fits this concept because he is categorizing that all republicans are focusing on trying to divert or distract the listeners by not answering the question directly, but by circling around and asking another question in order to not have to deal with what the real subject is.

In other words republicans are Question dodging

Evading the issue

Critical thinking fails

In your article or video clip, identify three of the following: vague/ambiguous language;credibility;cognitive bias;rhetoric; logical fallacies; generalizations; arguments from analogy; cause and effect reasoning; and value judgments about morality, law, or aesthetics.

Looks like we need at least one more sample of the above mentioned.

We have rhetoric and logical fallacies from the list

" The story today, is an effort by someone on the inside to discredit the institution of the senate"

Argument of outrage-attempts to convince us by making us angry rather than by giving us a relevant argument.

"What happened to the court today was the saddest chapter in the history of the United States Supreme court"

(ex of rhetorical device chapter 5) hyperbole- overdone exaggeration

"We need to concentrate on what the news is today, not a leaked draft but the fact that the draft was leaked"

(relevance fallacy chapter 6)Misplacing the burdenattempting to placing the burden of proof on the wrong side of the issue

(ex of relevance fallacies chapter 6) Argumentum ad hominemattempting to dismiss a sources position by discussing the source rather than the position

Cognitive Bias- utilizing confirmation bias Colbert is only focusing on what the Republicans are speaking about. He never mentions what the Democrats are saying. (chapter 1)

Conclusion:

Provide a conclusion to your video. Was the argument convincing? What is your position? (30 seconds max)

We must also use book information in our conclusion

What can we think of for our conclusion?

In conclusion, the host is using a variety of formats from our book in order to make a point of his views.

Examples:

He usesgenerality (a lack of specificity)by stating that republicans are not focusing on the real problem.

In my point of view, most politicians evade the issue, all the time. This tactic is commonly used to reroute the question, by pointing fingers. Therefore, if you already believe this is the plan, viewing this video will make you think this is their primary intention.

https://deadline.com/2021/06/late-night-ratings-late-show-wins-season-fifth-consecutive-year-1234772290/

Parenthood, P. (n.d.).Roe v. Wade at Risk: Nationwide legal abortion may be a thing of the past. Planned Parenthood Action Fund. Retrieved May 13, 2022, fromhttps://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/issues/abortion/roe-v-wade

please help me to add in ardument if rhetoric and what kind of ardument