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Thread #135899 Message #3101738
Posted By: GUEST,lively
24-Feb-11 - 03:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Gaddafi comedy show
Subject: RE: BS: Gaddafi comedy show
Bar the issue of 'fair game', it's worth noting perhaps that making a monster ridiculous is also a potent tool to undermine his credibility and subtley disempower him. It's an old tool too. It might not make him less literally powerful, but it undermines his public image which is particularly important if that image is one he deliberately uses to intimidate the public into submission and indeed garner his forces respectful obedience. We see this strategy employed everywhere from Bardic sources fatally ridiculing ancient Irish kings in verse to WWII propaganda (Hitler was of course much parodied) to techniques used by applicants in job interviews. Apart from all that, the video is spot on an very funny. Pity the Libyan people can't get to see it right now.