Provide a Critical Assessment of the Following Quotation

question 101

Essay

Provide a critical assessment of the following quotation.Discuss rhetorical flourishes and slanting techniques,if any,including otherizing,demonizing,fear or hate mongering,and forstering xenophobia.Some passages may fit more than one category.
"Rogues' gallery:Snowden joins long list of notorious,gutless traitors fleeing to Russia
If fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden were to request and receive asylum from Russia,he would find himself in dubious company.
Refuge in Russia would put Snowden on a shameful list that includes notorious assassin Lee Harvey Oswald,who aimed a rifle out of a Dallas book depository building and assassinated President Kennedy as his motorcade passed by in 1963."
-Leonard Greene,June 24,2013.Headline and article in the New York Post.
http://nypost.com/2013/06/24/rogues-gallery-snowden-joins-long-list-of-notorious-gutless-traitors-fleeing-to-russia/

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