The Simpsons may not be the spokepersons for the American people, but it shows that there are people in America that understand some of their societies dichotomies and hypocrisies and can lampoon them in a subtle and understated way...

yup- but Simpsons aside( where the phrases may have originated, but were quickly adopted by BuShite hawks & their fellow travellers; how soon we apparently forget) - there were also at the time (2003) a significant number of people in the US that were perfectly serions, and not lampooning anything at all.