This editorial submission, although comical, is a blatant attack on our president of the United States. In doing so the author K.D. Esslinger commits a personal attack at a rather high level. The author also starts their argument out very strong by choosing to say "marvelous irony." In one aspect the use of the word marvelous could be seen as a dysphemism, satirically downplaying the presidents and his abilities mentally. However, in the end it has to be looked at as a slander, in that, the use of the word has the ability to manipulate the reader's emotive force and encourage to take a certain perspective on some subject.

In order for this argument to be written to maintain validity the author would have to re write their argument in a way that their personal attack was justified. The author would need to find and state the evidence that proves the President is not capable of handling F

John Michener would have to rewrite his editorial with a straight forward approach in which Mr. Michener would have to remove all slanderous material and show proof of what act it is that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has committed to have brought forth an energy crisis in the state of California. For an even stronger argument the author could re-write the argument to include why the FERC was responsible the prices 10 percent higher in recent years. If the proof was shown the author would kill two birds with ones stone by eliminating his use of proof surrogates and his own fallacy of begging the question.

Andy Martin opens the editorial letter "Mormon Religion: A foundation built on sand," by generalizing that the Mormon religion always twists the clear teaching of the Scripture. In saying this Mr. Martin uses a circumstantial ad hominem to attack the Mormon religion and the members who belong to the church. Religion as a whole is hard to pin point in depth rhetorical devices due to the nature that the bible and religious groups are belief systems. Almost everything argued in religion could be pushed off as a proof surrogate or another person's circumstantial ad hominem. However Mr. Martinez resiliently personifies the rhetorical devices known as appeal to anger, appeal to belief, and most importantly genetic fallacies in that every religion dismisses the other's book's on which their beliefs are based. If Mr. Martinez was to actually provide evidence and not banter in childish ways in calling another religious group's gospel "silly" his point could be made with much more validity.

John Michener embodies the rhetorical mechanisms, slander and proof surrogates. In the third sentence of the author's editorial, it is stated that the FERC is the sole party responsible foe the energy crisis in California. When asking the question "Since when have prices been..." the author begs a question similar to the question he is looking for. Although not entirely this question comes very close to begging the question, another rhetorical pseudo reasoning tool. The author offers no proof as to what it is that the FERC did to bring forth an energy crisis to the state of California. Also the author uses the word dereliction to describe the company's actions. The word derecliction has a direct connotation

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Approximate Word count = 1561
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)