Kwame's rant

After Kwame Kilpatrick had finished his hour long state of the city speech, he went off the script and ranted about his current situation. He used pathos and diction to strengthen his point. He used diction when he says, "This unethical, illegal lynch mob mentality has to stop." The diction is when he uses unethical and illegal. He takes his point further because all lynch mobs are unethical and illegal. He chooses these words because it makes him seem like the victim in this situation. He tries to shift the blame to the media who has covered this by calling them an unethical and illegal lynch mob. However, the media is just doing their job, and he brought this upon himself.

He also uses pathos to make the audience sympathize with his situation. He appeals to emotion by saying, "In the past three days I've received more death threats than I have in my entire administration." He is attempting to manipulate the audience to feel sorry for him and try to understand that he is under extreme pressure and stress. He also brings his family into it by saying, "I've heard these words before but I've never heard people say them about my wife and children." He brings his wife and children into it because whenever people bring their families into an argument it usually provokes an emotional response from the audience. The pathos that Kawme uses is there for the purpose of bringing emotion into the audience and because of that emotion, feel sorry for Kawme. But, if he didn't want his family to be receiving death threats, then he should have been loyal to his wife in the first place.