Acceptable Political Targets: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Discworld/The Last Continent|The Last Continent]]'' takes a swing at politicians in general:

* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Sideshow Bob, who has tried to kill Bart many times, had a tattoo saying 'die Bart die'. To explain it to his parole board he says it means in German "the Bart the". A woman exclaims that it's not like anyone who speaks German could be evil.

** ''[[The Simpsons]]'' also [[Biting the Hand Humor|mocked]] [[Fox News]] about their political leanings a few times which was so acrimonious that Fox nearly ''sued itself'' over it.

*** For example, ''Not racist, but #1 with racists.''

*** ''We're unbalanced and it's unfair!''

* The country of Klopstokia in ''[[The New [[Scooby-Doo]] Mysteries]]'' episode "A Night Louse at the White House", whose ambassador and his wife were outed as spies attempting to steal classified information on the American space program, was a thinly-veiled jab at the Soviet Union, especially as it was customary to throw potshots at the Soviets during the Reagan era.

* Julia Gillard, the current{{when}} Prime Minister, is susceptible to this owing to the circumstances which led to her taking the role; she's widely seen as [[The Starscream]] to her predecessor Kevin Rudd. The federal election which soon followed didn't help - her campaign was widely poked fun at for being inconsistent and unfocused, to the point that partway through she declared everything so far to be a mistake and said she'd change that and start being the "real Julia" ([[Memetic Mutation/Politics|cue every Australian comedian trying to figure out who the "old Julia" was and what the "new Julia" did to her]]).