WINNING WITH SATIRE (An Open Letter to Hillary and Barack)

[Ian David]

February 15, 2008 at 07:35:39
Headlined on 2/15/08:
WINNING WITH SATIRE (An Open Letter to Hillary and Barack)
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Dear Hillary and Barack,

We're coming down to the 15th round of the heavyweight preliminary - or what I like to call, Texas, Pennsylvania and Ohio - and neither one of you has delivered a knock out. But whomever comes out the winner (without super-delegates) is certainly qualified to do a really good job.

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The public isn't dumb, but they will lean towards the side that makes understanding an issue the easiest, even if most times that is somewhat misleading. Talk show radio does it brilliantly using anger (their audience's and their own) to spin every issue into a diatribe against you. One of the reasons liberal radio hasn't worked as well as the one-note "we are right and they are wrong...hate-America wrong" is that the Left believes things are a little more complex. But just being smarter doesn't necessarily make for better radio. Except for Harry Shearer and Stephanie Miller. NPR is so, well, so-so.

But simple doesn't have to be witless. I give you The Daily Show, out of little bitty Comedy Central. Stewart and his crew have gotten everyone's attention. Stephen Colbert has been able to shed far brighter light on the truth than the supposed no-spin fella on the other comedy channel he's mocking.

Why? Satire. Smart humor that points to the absurd and gives the audience a little credit for having to think.

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