a lot of satire or definitions of satire is wrapped up in that little bit. in direction, irony, those big 57 words make it sound like this is one of those graduates panels. even talking about satire which is something we don't talk about that much. when you are faced with a situation like this you are on a panel to talk about satire i haven't written any satire although some of my readers may see it as that. hadn't intend it to be that way. my stuff is usually straight ahead, fact oriented although the last time i was here i did a thing in creative nonfiction which is where you can blur those lines between fact and fiction. alex haley had a concept called faction when he was doing that remarkable book that all of you have read. you probably saw the monumental television series based on routes or routes depending on what part of the country in come from. one of the things about satire in doing my research on it, i stumbled -- we talked about this, a remarkable piece here, i wish we could have in here. darrell dickson carr. what a fascinating interview. i went

politics is tragedy and politics is satire. satire is politics. we are very political people and it comes out in all of our literature. it comes out in some of the other authors that were mentioned. i know i got your little late but i overheard-- it comes out in langston hughes works. it comes out in chester heinz work. hurston and gwendolyn brooks. nick gillani. i know my title, tantrum, which is a very gritty, dark fiction sort of political thriller, a lot of that was inspired by derrick bell's, faces at the bottom of the well. i remember reading bad as a young lad and just the way he wanted to make some really clear points about american law, about american politics through these conversations he was having with his main female protagonist, geneva. i was just like wow, i would love to write a book like this so tantrum is a lot of that. tantrum is essentially taking all of these various characters that we have all grown up with. i grew up in north philadelphia and we used to call them storefront creatures, from the preachers to the strong sister

. >> and the one with the turban was similarly a perfectly legitimate, strong satirical point. >> and weld rahm, too. >> so the ones the people got most exercised would actually be the ones that i would, if i were to take to get many of the others were beyond bland so that is one issue. but it seems then there's the second issue what we were talking about what to think happens when the subject of violence arises. and that seems to be where the subject changes. it is no longer about whether you should publish or not publish. but how do you respond to violence. do you respond with howard miss or courage. at that point it seemed to be reduced paper should published cartoons. because they want to insult. but just to make the point you don't give in to the threats. so i think sometimes when people start talking about the cartoon objects whether they are good or bad or defensive for inoffensive it is that one point but the second half of the point is a question in response. that is one of the things that has gotten very learned recently >> do you know is what happens to mohammed when he blo

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. >> we thought it would be good political satire, something that is done often in campaigns to kind of set the record straight. >> reporter: isaac salazar is the brains behind bob ehrlich.org. his decree at thi cretiquing ehd for governor. >> he was a big spender and he is not a fiscal conservative and he did in fact, raise fees and taxes. >> it's sort of the new dirty tricks to stop the campaign. it's kind of silly, but not a whole lot of people pay attention to it. if people do not like you, they may get on that website. >> reporter: with so many different ways that candidates can seek potential voters, the state board of elections is starting to take notice. >> at its next meeting it's considering whether to regulate political websites, especially those that appear to represent political candidates but are regulated by the opposition. >> the internet has been great to spread democracy in some ways but it also means that unfounded rumors can travel very easily and very widely. >> reporter: bob ehrlich says he supports labeling for political websites. >> anything above can get into

and if clever satire was a nasty piece. it has been ripped from the headlines. "law and order" is no more. nbc said they canceled it over 83 years. and on the verge of becoming the longest run running drama in prime time passing" wings of fierce" and" half men." they still get their new "law and order." it is about coming up with funny spinoff names. can't wait for that. what is going to take the place of "law and order"? this. >> i can watch that for hours. unfortunately on this show we can't. tom, do you like "law and order"? >> i was on it. you c give me a -- can you give me a theme. i ran with a guy for uh -- awhile. but i don't know nothing about no murder. and i have to get back to work. >> that's the weird thing about how they treated the police. the guys interviews say yeah i have to go. >> new yorkers are busy. we don't care. >> amazing. you can sit at home and watch 16 hours and not learn anything because it doesn't matter. >> for me "law and order svu does" but regular law and order is just something where i turn it on and think, damn it is not svu. a

i said it was somewhat a satirical history of mexican politics is one of the most grievous things i havenk you took this from the mexican cartooning heritage. she is a creative analyst and won the national journalism prize in mexico. congratulations on that. she is a person prolific as a scholar and intellectual and someone who moves for debates in mexico. we also have the mexican council on competitiveness. i think he is one of the new voices in mexico. he is one of those voices you will hear more and more from overtime pool as been active on the project on transparency, municipal finance, as well as in finances in general. he has been doing work to make public finances more accessible and transparent and more accessible. we also have a writer who had an article out on foreign affairs on u.s.-mexico security issues. she has a book that will be coming out, in a while, don't look for it yet. that will look at where mexico is today and were mexico and the united states are today that i think you will find interesting and important we have a fellow from. the woodrow wilson center. he has be

it was a history, a somewhat ironic-- satirical history of mexican politics, one of the most creative things that i have seen in any country and i said to denise once, think you took this from the cartooning heritage. jon stewart in a way. it is the mexican tradition of cartooning but irony and the sarcasm. she yesterday won the national journalism prize in mexico. congratulations on that. she is a person who is prolific as a public intellectual, a scholar and as someone who really moves forward to the pace of mexico. juan pardinas is a columnist and as i said to people earlier, one of the new voices in mexico though he has been around for a while. he is one of those voices you will hear more and more from overtime and has been active with a project on transparency, and municipal finances as well as finances in general, and has been doing a lot of work really to make public financing work sensible and more transparent and accountable to every citizen. shannon o'neil is what the council on foreign relations. she is an article that was out in foreign affairs about a year and a half ago

actually which i'm going to forget the title i, denise, as i said with a history of sunlight -- >> satirical >> one of the most creative things that i've seen in any country in a fit to nice once i think he took this from the mexican cartooning heritage, they're sort of cartoons and no jon stewart. it's really an annotation be sort of a traditional cartooning, but really the irony and cartoonist of the creative analyst. she yesterday won a national journalism prize in mexico, so congratulate her on that. and as a person who is prolific as a public intellectual, a scholar and someone who really moves. want pardinas is on the mexican council. he is also in performa and i said to some people the new voices in mexico though he has been around for a while. i think it's one of those voices that she would hear more and more from overtime lisbon area did in transparency and municipal finances as well as in other finances in general and has been doing a lot of work to make public finances more accessible and more transparent to average citizens. shannon o'neill is with the federal latin relations. sh

her last book is, it was a satirical history of mexican politics, one of the most traded things i hadn in any country. the to this from the mexican cartooning heritage. this is a very creative and a list. she won the journalism project in mexico. she is prolific as a scholar and intellectual. juan pardinas was a panelist. he is one of the new voices in mexico. he is one of the voices you will hear more of overtime. he had a project on and transparency. he is spending a lot of work to make public finances more accountable to average citizens. shannon o'neal is the douglas dillon a fellow for latin america and council on foreign relations. eill is theo'n douglas dillon fellow for latin america and council on foreign relations. she will be live get where mexico and the u.s. are today. she is been doing a great deal of work. david shirk is the director of the transborder institute at the university of san diego. he has been doing some of the best work out there on a lot issues and security cooperation and contemporary in mexican politics. we are very proud to have him here. without that,

tom tolls of "the washington post" depicts the problem quite well in this satirical cartoon. here you see the rating agencies. he labels them that. that's how you know they are them. giving three tens to a figure skater labeled wall street, and he is kind of fat there. you see he says i pay their salaries. that's why he is getting the three tens, or aaa. and yet he is a figure skater and he is dumping trash, really. there you see an apple core, there is a fish head, skeleton, a banana. you don't want those on the ice. you just don't want that. that's bad. and then a little figure here, a little garbage man here at the bottom, it says somebody else pays to clean the ice. that, of course, is us, the taxpayers. i think after seeing this cartoon, if anyone doesn't support my amendment, they are -- i don't know what could do that. anyway, this actually shows -- makes the point very well. the issuer is paying the rating agency and wednesday the aaa. however, the credit rating agency should have an interest in providing accurate ratings, unlike the triple ten here, so that investors