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Honesty: the quality or fact of being honest; uprightness and fairness. Possessing the characteristic of honesty, studies have shown, allows you to gain and attain the respect of strangers and even friends. Honesty, integrity, and straight-forwardness are a couple things that the National Rifle Association thinks the Democratic candidate for President of the United States, Hillary Clinton, lacks. In the National Rifle Association’s political advertisement labeled “Hypocrite Hillary”, the NRA uses Hillary’s own beliefs to juxtapose her words in order to create a hypocritical feeling about her running as the next President of the United States of America. The NRA appeals to the reader's emotions by hitting on how Hillary's actions are hypocritical. …show more content…
Throughout the history of the Clinton’s shaky line of politics, money has always been high on Hillary’s (and Bill’s) list of priorities. This statement of Clinton’s ginormous income inserts thoughts of question into viewers’ minds, such as why she makes so much money. At the same time, this statement also puts Clinton’s credibility into interrogation as her honesty has always been up in the air. Disputable emotions about her characteristics immediately fill watchers’ minds, and you start to wonder if this woman is trustworthy enough to be the next President of the United States. The woman shown as Hillary is pictured sitting in an extremely luxurious blacked-out SUV, followed by one in the front and one tailing her own, texting away on a mobile device. Later in the ad, a woman depicting Hillary Clinton is being transferred from her president-official SUV onto a red carpet leading to a private jet. Along the red carpet, several machine gun-toting guards are shown protecting Hillary Clinton. The narrator continues on to say, “Tours the world on private jets. Protected by armed guards for 30 years. But she doesn’t believe in your right to keep a gun at home for self-defense.” This scene shows Hillary Clinton as an elite business woman, totally oblivious to her own beliefs on gun laws. The flashy, majestic scene of the …show more content…
The focus on the machine gun the guard is armed with speaks dividends in terms of Hillary’s concern for her own health. She clearly thinks of herself superior if she’s able to be protected by armed men, while her own beliefs juxtapose her actions. While the narrator continues to throws shots at Hillary Clinton, the candidate is seen being motioned onto an extravagant private jet. A flight attendant greets the democratic candidate with a smile, and a tray of food. In the background, Clinton is seen on a television mounted on the wall of the jet. You start to genuinely wonder if Clinton has too much money and power, hence her position isn’t even as President yet. At the end of the advertisement, the narrator continues on to say, “She's an out-of-touch hypocrite. And she'd leave you defenseless.” The narrator saying this stimulates emotions of fear from the idea of Hillary Clinton being our next leader. The narrator inserts the thought of having a President that out-rules having personal armed weapons for defense into the viewers’ minds. In today’s era, citizens of the United States want protection, and a sense of security from their President. They want to feel secured by their leader, not a state of fear. She is acting as if her well-being is superior to everyone else’s. As

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