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Stephen Colbert Shaves Head for US Troops in Iraq
Jun 8th, 2009 - FOXNews
BAGHDAD — It's official. U.S. mock pundit Stephen Colbert has declared victory in the war in Iraq. But the top U.S. commander in the country says not so fast. Colbert.
Jacob Zuma's ANC a target for South African satirists
Apr 18th, 2009 - guardian.co.uk
The smartly dressed audience filing into Johannesburg's Market Theatre is a mix of young and old, black and white. For the next two hours, their reactions will be a combination of laughter.

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Clarke and Dawe on climate change
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Repuffs! a political satire machinima
What if the Republican party was a breakfast cereal? In marketing, branding is everything. Politics is no different. Repuffs is a satirical take on how the mccain Palin campaign is rushing to rebrand themselves, but can't escape ...

Political Satire from WikiPedia:

Political satire is a significant part of satire that specializes in gaining entertainment from politics; it has also been used with subversive intent where political speech and dissent are forbidden by a regime, as a method of advancing political arguments where such arguments are expressly forbidden. Historically, the public opinion in the Athenian democracy was remarkably influenced by the political satire performed by the comic poets at the theaters.

Political satire is usually distinguished from political protest or political dissent, as it does not necessarily carry an agenda nor seek to influence the political process. While occasionally it may, it more commonly aims simply to provide entertainment. By its very nature, it rarely offers a constructive view in itself; when it is used as part of protest or dissent, it tends to simply establish the error of matters rather than provide solutions.