Satire Blog 2
The character of Stephen Colbert promotes that the draft should be reinstated because it will create anti-war protests. The anti-war protests will cause Americans to get more angry at the anti-war protests than at the Bush administration and guarantee victory for the Republicans in the years to come. The real message behind what Stephen Colbert said is that we should not reinstate the draft because it would create chaos. What makes this satirical is that Stephen Colbert’s idea is so offensive that people know that he dosen’t mean it. What makes it funny is some of the jokes he makes, such as, “Run for your life, they’re blogging!” I really enjoyed this clip from the Colbert report.
December 19th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
I thought that when he said “Run for your life, they’re blogging,” was really funny also, because of course we’re watching his show to blog about. In my blog I wrote that the point he was trying to make was all of the discontent and chaos the War in Iraq has been causing and clearly you got the same out of this video clip.
January 6th, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I cannot fully agree with how you say “Colbert’s idea is so offensive that people know that he dosen’t mean it.” I mean it is absolutely true in many aspects, but some people may not see this in the same way; some people may agree with the “offensive” part of his sketch and therefore do not know he doesn’t mean it.