Prohibition was the Blue State-Red State divide of the 1920s, and satirists such as H.
Conservative satirists would love to toss some kryptonite at him, but he is a slippery target.
Comics and satirists had a field day creating characters like Harry Enfield's Loadsamoney.
If such sources of tension boil over into open rows, then satirists will have a field day.
Yet, as a group, the young satirists were not in any meaningful sense radicals, let alone left-wing.
Liberal satirists feel they ought to goad the powerful, but it no longer comes naturally now that George Bush has buzzed back to Texas.
Satirists think they can change the world, and that's an illusion.
Needless to say, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert and any other political satirists should have positions on their writing teams devoted to following this guy around.
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Pundits and satirists have been eager to link Virginia's bill to the rows over contraception now convulsing the Republican Party as Mitt Romney dukes it out with Rick Santorum.
Part of success as a satirists (or humorists as some like to be called) is to capture the not just the personality they are satirizing but the zeitgeist of the times.
It will serve a larger purpose, too, the same one that motivated satirists from Aristophanes and Juvenal to Swift and Pope to Mark Twain and the creators of "Dr. Strangelove": to curb self-indulgence, deflate pretense, and expel stupidity.
Not everyone, however, is able to put a positive spin on the financial crisis, which is why Ben Carey, 37, and Henrik Delehag, 35 -- two London, England, satirists and authors who collectively go by Benrik -- launched Recession Blocker in October.
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