OpEdNews - Page 2 of Article: WINNING WITH SATIRE (An Open Letter to Hillary and Barack)

But it's not only you. If you are to win you cannot go it alone. Besides those closest to you, those on the blogosphere and the anywhere-else-sphere must be pumping out the satire. Hear that, Blogger-Guy? Get your underwear-clad bod over to the computer, tell your Mom who you still live with that you can't take out the trash right now. You're too busy saving America, one joke at a time. No attack, no matter how overt or how subtle can go un-satirized. It's about killing the malignancy before it has time to spread. And mark my words, the liberal mainstream media will take whatever the Right echo-chamber hammers into the "debate." It needs no factual basis.

Think "Gore said he invented the Internet." Think "Kerry was a coward." Think "Dick Cheney giving Judy Miller the WMD misinformation that she copied verbatim into The New York Times and Cheney then pointing to the Times as the best place to find out what is really happening." Brilliant? Yes. True? Not so much. But it helped get us into a war. A war, for crissakes! All I'm asking is that you tell a damn joke so it doesn't happen again.

You can do it. Whomever you are. You really can. Because, if I might paraphrase Stuart Smally, "You're good enough. You're smart enough. And dog- gonnit, people like you."

But unless you also familiarize the voter with just how much of a joke your opponent is, it won't mean a thing.

Sincerely,
Steve

NOTE: Award-winning TV writer, Steve Young, is the former political editor of National Lampoon, the author of "Great Failures of the Extremely Successful" and is sitting in his underwear at his mom's house waiting for you to contact him to get this thing started: www.greatfailure.com

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