It was a good parody of the MSM attack machine. I don’t see Beck or Hannity attacking Sarah Palin, so I lean towards comparing it to the networks. There are plenty of pompous asses to go around.
“It was a good parody of the MSM attack machine.”
That and more I think - an illuminating send-up of the poisonous “politics of destruction” as practiced according to the Clinton’s “Arkansas Way”, the Obamaites “Chicago Way”, and the “Roger Ailes Way” facing off against the full-throated complicity of the rest of the MSM with BO’s crew.
When one recalls how BO trashed his political opponents in the IL senate and IL US senate races, getting all of the former kicked off the ballot, and arranging for his political hatchet men to get his Senate opponent’s messy divorce records unsealed, it’s clear that as the episode progresses, Cartman morphs from a media attack dog into a version of BO, in all his whining stealthily vindictive ingloriousness.
Thus the identifications are somewhat imprecise and unstable through the program, but overall the script writers have offered a telling portrait of the various poisonous rules of engagement that are developing in our polity as another “irrepressible conflict” ferments below the surface of national events, as it did in the 1850’s. I wonder how Maj Hasan’s role will play out? Will he be like another “John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry” bankrolled by the “Secret Six”, revealing a willingness on the part of rabid abolitionits to trigger open warfare on their nemsis (and ironically, in one case, checking into an insane asylum to escape close scrutiny). I guess we will have to wait and see. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Six