Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Jon Green Against Ted Cruz

Jon Green from AMERICAblog specializes in political science and political cognition and has experience as a regional field director for President Obama's reelection campaign and 2012. From past posts such as 'Paul Ryan isn't conservative enough to be Speaker' and 'Ben Carson Kaylee has no gay rights' Green emphasizes on more Democratic views.  

He recently issued an article today titled: Ted Cruz: black lives matter "embracing and celebrating the murder of police". As he opens up the article with "well I guess someone wasn't getting enough attention", we assume Green's primary audience are those who support Black Lives Matter and or either disapprove of Ted Cruz's plans as President.


Jon Green includes ThinkProgress reporter Kira Lerner, and statements from Black Lives Matter to imply Ted Cruz's idea of 'anti-death movement is actually encouraging murder' are absurd. Even though John Green has provided multiple statements it is disappointing that he couldn't or didn't choose to find more statistical or concrete evidence. Green quoted Lerner's statement on how Cruz uses a popular conservative rhetoric to support that "crime rates of spiked across the 10 country because police officers are afraid of protesters". However he didn't include evidence that this 'popular conservative rhetoric' is false, which leaves the audience thinking if this point is true or not and if Green's credibility is legitimate. I have been informed with evidence that crime rates have rather declined but to those who read this and are not prior informed, Jon Green's use of Leonard statement is not so credible. So the readers are now just hanging off of Greens mere statements rather than true evidence. Which can be argued that today's audience prefer a more patho or ethological argument rather than meaningless numbers spurting.

After presenting ThinkProgress's interview, Green grows on his argument that 'Cruz has positioned himself to be the "Trump but with an actual campaign infant structure" candidate in the race. Again with very little evidence but plenty of personal statements Green quickly closes his article with the idea that Cruise is "going to have to start peeling off the racist vote from the fields to front runners. And what better way to start that bind plying then the city anti-death movement is actually encouraging murder?" 

Green brings up a controversial point about Cruz's opinion on Black Lives Matter. Using his strong but minimal evidence the general uninformed public may start believing Green's opinion on Cruz. However his article lacks the concrete evidence for those who want to be more informed with concrete evidence rather than simple speculations. 

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