Pat Smith Laugh Baby Laugh Cry Baby Cry

Pat Smith is a writing instructor who composed a piece called “Laugh Baby Laugh, Cry Baby Cry”. The article is about the 2010 BP oil spill and claims that chanting is what big businesses use to control everyday people. To support this claim, Smith writes about the 2008 National Republican Convention, and how the leaders like Sarah Palin and Rudy Guiliani were chanting in support of BP drilling in the Gulf Coast. However, this is her only referable evidence she uses. Any other piece of evidence that Smith offers is found within the hypothetical situations she creates in the article. She talks about how capitalism works by using BP as the central character, explains how advertising has changed through Sigmund Freud’s research, and uses college