Diction: Words like "radicalized" and "bizarre" indicate the way Kellyanne Conway is representing herself in her argumentative defense.
Devices: Syntax is represented in this article through short and simple introductory sentences. These sentences imply the intelligence level of Kellyanne Conway, short and almost not present! "That’s very hard to believe." Right...
Tone: This article is written in a very condescending and sleuth-like tone, as if to make Kellyanne Conway appear childish for even fabricating news and attempting to do something this ridiculous and baffling.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to bring light to the fact that Kellyanne Conway is producing lies and fake news for the support of Trump's immigration ban. She repeatedly used that same phrase 3 times and did not admit to producing fake news, but began to say she "misspoke".
Argument: Kellyanne Conway took to Twitter to walk back her comments on MSNBC’s Hardball about a nonexistent terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky. However, this wasn’t the first time she used the words “Bowling Green massacre” in an on-the-record conversation with a reporter. In an earlier interview with Cosmopolitan.com, she not only used this same phrase but also went a step further in describing the actions of the two Iraqi men involved in the case to which she was referring. Here’s another example of Conway repeating the same claim, this time referring to the “Bowling Green attack on our brave soldiers.” There was no such attack, and the repetition of the claim reinforces the idea that she didn’t “misspeak.”
Devices: Syntax is represented in this article through short and simple introductory sentences. These sentences imply the intelligence level of Kellyanne Conway, short and almost not present! "That’s very hard to believe." Right...
Tone: This article is written in a very condescending and sleuth-like tone, as if to make Kellyanne Conway appear childish for even fabricating news and attempting to do something this ridiculous and baffling.
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to bring light to the fact that Kellyanne Conway is producing lies and fake news for the support of Trump's immigration ban. She repeatedly used that same phrase 3 times and did not admit to producing fake news, but began to say she "misspoke".
Argument: Kellyanne Conway took to Twitter to walk back her comments on MSNBC’s Hardball about a nonexistent terrorist attack in Bowling Green, Kentucky. However, this wasn’t the first time she used the words “Bowling Green massacre” in an on-the-record conversation with a reporter. In an earlier interview with Cosmopolitan.com, she not only used this same phrase but also went a step further in describing the actions of the two Iraqi men involved in the case to which she was referring. Here’s another example of Conway repeating the same claim, this time referring to the “Bowling Green attack on our brave soldiers.” There was no such attack, and the repetition of the claim reinforces the idea that she didn’t “misspeak.”
Original article: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/conway-struggles-shake-her-made-massacre