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Originally Posted by driveway
The benefit, as has already been stated, is to bring attention to the issue. Obviously it's not an attempt to 'bridge the divide'. No one is doing that in Washington at all, it's in both parties advantage to maintain the partisanship.
Also, it should be pointed out, this is not the first time someone has appeared before congress "in character". Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham called Sesame Street Muppet Elmo to appear before congres in 2002 to urge to support increases in funding for music education.
Also, Comedy Central does better political reporting than anyone else these days. Which is fataing ridiculous, but it's true.
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I doubt that that was a situation where the 2 sides were far apart. Also, Elmo doesn't make his living as a satirist for the republican party.