Strike Gold or Hit the Road

U.S.A. Today's article is used to justify the "tsunami" of illegal immigrants by an emotional appeal to the olympics, which according to the commenter-citizensrevolt, is about to break out on the U.S. U.S.A today tries to play to people's emotions in regard to the Olympics. The Olympics are a time when every American is bound to be become more nationalistic. It is a time when Americans' hearts become knit together in unison as they watch with bated breath, hoping that their world-class athletes will put on a display of American superiority and outclass the rest of the world. U.S.A. today would wish to persuade their audience that immigrants benefit their country extremely because they win gold medals for them in the Olympics. They would have Americans release this frantic flood in the vain hope that these illegal immigrants can one day bring home a gold medal. In this battle of pathos the writer-citizensrevolt strikes back with his own skillful use of pathos. "U.S.A. today has a long record of being open border harlots"(3rd comment, par. 1) says the author. He starts out by attacking U.S.A. today's faithfulness to the United States border patrol. Pointing out that they have "fawned" over many of the immigration bills in the past. Then he gets to the bread and butter of his pathos. He says this-

"No dice. When the Olympics are long over, citizens still get to suffer waiting in line behind illegal aliens in the emergency room and pay for services that the illegals will receive at taxpayer expense. Citizens get to pay for insurance premiums and deductables for our childrens' birth while at the same time paying for 300,000 anchor babies annually, as native birthrates are below replacement levels and theirs are thriving, again at taxpayer expense.

We get to watch our childrens education suffer cuts in sports, music, field trips, etc. while (ESL) English Secondary Language expenditures explode."(par. 3-4)

First he invokes the imagery of hobbling, injured, into a hospital wing only to find he has to wait in line behind a bunch of illegals, that use of pathos definitely would get his audience moving. Next he pulls on their heart strings again by telling them that their kids will not even benefit from the taxes they are paying because instead it will be going to a bunch of kids that they don't know and whom they probably don't even want in their country. Finally he finishes by helping his audience recall how much fun they had doing sports, going on field trips, and playing music, and he points out that their kids will not have that luxury because illegal immigrants are pilfering their schools' coffers, and instead the audience's children will learn how to speak Spanish.

Then he closes by attacking USA today-

"US Citizens must grapple with these treacheries and much more 365 days of every year. Yet, USA Today editors have the gall to invoke a two-week event that occurs once every four years attempting to justify it all."(par. 4)

Citizensrevolt chooses his words very carefully to further his argument. Words such as "grapple", "treachery", "tsunami", "open border harlots", and "fawned" work very well to persuade his audience to believe that not only is U.S.A. Today's article deceiving, but it could also be downright wrong.

Would the audience agree with him? Do these hard working Americans work 365 days a year only to see their money lost to illegals? The author does an amazing job at emotionally equalizing U.S.A Today's use of pathos. He puts the article in perspective for his audience. He helps them realize that U.S.A. Today cleverly uses emotion to further their viewpoint. Perhaps a viewer, after reading both article and post, would come to realize that 365 days is a lot longer than a 4 week period. And after the dust clears from the Olympics, they will be the ones left to live with the remainder of the immigrants.