Zarley, further to your comment about 22 minutes and the political cartoon. I think these are actually important distinctions. It's all about context. Personally, I think both of these are over the line, but again the context of both of these depictions isn't to deligitimize the culture or person. Using caricature as an example, the exagerated features have always been a slight contention point, but they are largely dolled out pretty evenly. Just look at a caricature of the british royal family for example, you could see the nose from a different planet. Satire itself, generally where 22 minutes finds itself, also creates it's own cover for this. The Satire is poking fun at itself generally, and the larger commentary of the satire is usually a completely different element than the zany parts, so there's more flexibility. That said, I think both of these instances are toeing that line pretty hard. BUT, both are so far away from the parade example that it's pretty disingenuous to compare them.
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