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The Merriam Webster dictionary defines satire as a trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly. From the Latin term satura lanx which means "medley, dish of colorful fruits," Roman rhetorician Quintilian believed satire to be a "wholly Roman phenomenon," though many ancient greek works are considered to be part of the satirical tradition.

Though often strictly defined as a literary form, it in practice is also found in the graphic and performing arts. Contemporary satire predominantly centers around political satire, though the term is often used imprecisely in reference to any use of parody or caricature in modern comedy. Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report is an excellent example of modern American political satire, where the words and beliefs of American politicians are proven hypocritical as they are taken to their fullest logical conclusion.

More examples af political satire can be found in this list of top political humor sites.

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  • ELEVATOR LIFE • by Scott Bartlett


    Every Day Fiction — Authority Authority: 461
    I stepped into the elevator at Centennial Hospital and watched the steel doors clamp shut.  A woman in a nightgown was standing in front of the number pad.  I debated on whether to say “seven please” or just maintain a silent vigil until she asked. Besides, I was making a pizza delivery and my hands were ...
    3 days ago

  • Hemmings Find of the Day – 1956 Chevrolet Panel Truck


    Hemmings Auto Blogs — Authority Authority: 519
    Perhaps the key to ultimate victory in the battle against rust may not be to fight, but rather accept, welcome, and therefore conquer the oxidization process altogether. The seller of this 1956 Chevrolet 3800 panel truck for sale on Hemmings.com fairly and honestly describes that the truck does in fact have some ...
    3 days ago

  • Teen Hostage Freed, Returns to Bedroom


    Gerbil News Network — Authority Authority: 118
    DOWNERS GROVE, Il.  Since Friday afternoon Dottie Cavanaugh has been ”a total wreck” as her husband Herb puts it, unable to sleep while the couple awaited word about their 17-year-old son Kevin, who was held hostage by a gunman at a pizza parlor. “Z-z-z-z . . .” “If anything had happened to ...
    3 days ago

  • Utopia Factory Abraxas / Terrorism Museum, by Stéphane Degoutin and Gwenola Wagon


    socks-studio — Authority Authority: 408
    Come back home right after a fast yet inspiring chat with Paris based artist Stéphane Degoutin at the 104 , I and Mariabruna were curious enough to start looking at the work he did with his friend Gwenola Wagon . In fact their sites show such an overwhelming quantity, quality and variety of production that we ...
    4 days ago

  • Sarah Palin and the Spanish Inquisition (or: Obama is so pre Civil War)


    Glob-a-log — Authority Authority: 111
    (Brothers under the skin…?) So, Sarah Palin is not running any elections, these days – which doesn’t exactly stop her from running her mouth. Here’s Beyond The Palin, on the Sean Hannity show , talking racism, Civil War and stuff: ‘Now, it has taken all these years for ...
    4 days ago

  • Peter Bergman, founding member of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, dies at 72


    heave-ho.org — Authority Authority: 146
    Peter Bergman, a founding member of the Firesign Theatre comedy troupe, whose zany pun-loaded skits and absurdist political satire entertained millions of college kids during the 1960s and ’70s, died Friday at a hospital in Santa Monica, Calif. He was 72. Read full article > >
    4 days ago

  • NewsBusted – 12-070 – Video


    PA Pundits - International — Authority Authority: 535
    Topics in today’s show: – While talking about preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon, President Obama said that he doesn’t bluff. – President Obama says that the only thing his wife Michelle lets him do is watch ESPN. – First Lady Michelle Obama announced an initiative to create 3,000 travel ...
    4 days ago

  • Conservative Commentary in Monty Python’s Life of Brian


    Gently Hew Stone — Authority Authority: 107
    How telling that common sense satire, so subversive 30 years ago, is now so contrary to political correctness that it may well now constitute a hate crime.  Here, we see the logical failure of sexual identity politics in the real world, and the juvenile futility of the anti-imperialism bandwagon.     Filed under: ...
    5 days ago

  • Schrödinger’s Cat


    strange bOUnce — Authority Authority: 412
    by Martin Palazzotto (as translated from today’s edition of SZ) Munich (SZ) – The Allianz Arena was the setting for a bizarre midweek match in the DFB Pokal, last night.  Bayern Munich, already struggling to keep pace with new rivals Borussia Dortmund and old enemies Borussia Mönchengladbach in the ...
    5 days ago

  • Louis Vuitton Versus University of Pennsylvania Law School | Fashion House Takes on Lecture Parody Posters


    BagBunch - Bags, Handbags & Purses — Authority Authority: 428
    Famously litigious fashion house Louis Vuitton has a new target in its sights. The French designer label sent a cease and desist letter to the University of Pennsylvania Law School after the college created satirical posters for upcoming seminars. The law school created posters, which feature a Louis Vuitton style ...
    5 days ago

  • It’s Health & Safety gone ma ma magnificently right


    Glob-a-log — Authority Authority: 111
    It’s a bit like reading about a wannabe suicide bomber who’s blown himself up in his garden shed… … or hearing that two of Rick Santorum’s daughters will do a sexy sister shoot for next month’s Playboy… … but this is, in a way, still better: ‘A council faces having to pay ...
    6 days ago

  • The Conspiracy to Flush Rush


    Politics Plus — Authority Authority: 468
    Back when Barack Obama was in the womb in Kenya, he had lots of scheming to do.  He had to plan the forgery of his birth certificate, his illegal ascent to the White House, and the destruction of the white race.  But more important than any of those, he also had to plot the demise [...]
    6 days ago

  • NLO 767: Kony and Karaoke


    Nobody Likes Onions — Authority Authority: 101
    Comedian BRANDIE POSEY and young Apple fanatic BRIAN KING are in the studio. We’re talking about the recent announcement of the new iPad, and what it has, and why everyone needs one. We talk about creepy fan Miles, Brian being uncircumcised, Dagre calls in, Patrick needs to write jokes for a roast tonight, Skittles ...
    6 days ago

  • Are Women People?


    The Moderate Voice — Authority Authority: 660
    In Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people, at least when it comes to political speech. In a well-written, humorous and very pointed fact-filled satire, Jessica Winters explores how recent controversies color when a woman is, according to law or certain parts of society, a person. You ...
    6 days ago

  • Obama And The Israelis


    PA Pundits - International — Authority Authority: 535
    A Dry Bones Cartoon ~ According to the Christian Science Monitor: Shimon Peres: a dovish voice in Obama’s ear Israeli President Shimon Peres meets with President Obama today. Mr. Peres opposes an Israeli preemptive strike on Iran, adding a dovish voice to deliberations between the US and Israel. ...
    1 week ago

  • Apple haters already hates the soon to be introduced new iPad.


    37prime.news — Authority Authority: 418
    Our resident psychic sent us a few thoughts telepathically stolen from well known Apple haters. Did I say stolen? NO! I said “telepathically stolen”! Apple hater extra-ordinaire and Microsoft cheerleader/secret employee Paul Thurrott has finished bashing the next iPad. Comparing it to the “so mind-blowingly ...
    1 week ago

  • Apple haters already hates the soon to be introduced new iPad.


    37prime — Authority Authority: 115
    Our resident psychic sent us a few thoughts telepathically stolen from well known Apple haters. Did I say stolen? NO! I said “telepathically stolen”! Apple hater extra-ordinaire and Microsoft cheerleader/secret employee Paul Thurrott has finished bashing the next iPad. Comparing it to the “so mind-blowingly ...
    1 week ago

  • NewsBusted – 12-067 – Video


    PA Pundits - International — Authority Authority: 535
    Topics in today’s show: – President Obama says his apology over the accidental Koran burning in Afghanistan calmed things down. – While speaking at The White House, President Obama forgot the name of Maryland Governor, Martin O’Malley. – Maine’s Republican Senator, Olympia Snowe has announced her ...
    1 week ago

  • Then Harry Met Sali


    strange bOUnce — Authority Authority: 412
    by  Roge Slater Get away from it all, they said. Take a break, its all been stressful.  On that front they weren’t joking.  All this crap ‘anging over me for five years and I’m tryin’ to run a football club, too. It started when we got knocked up one morning by the police and a few Tax Inspectors, ...
    1 week ago

  • ‘Candide’ Operetta in Madrid


    Only Apartments Travel Blog — Authority Authority: 114
    If you like the genre of operetta theater you’re in luck, because the Canal Theaters in Madrid offer you the opportunity to attend one of the most popular and expected performances of the season “Candide.” If you do not know about this fun musical genre know that the operetta is the little sister ...
    1 week ago

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