Satire

The video clips that were shown in class brought up some interesting thoughts, with the added commentary from mike. It was interesting to think about satire from a Rhetoric stand point, rather than to merely be entertained, which was something I never did before. The main idea that i took away away from this all was the idea that what John Steward and Steven Colbert say in their showes is to always be taken with a silver spoon. In other words, while they might be hitting on some key components, everything they say does not need to be entierly true - nor are they obligated to tell the entire truth... actually its almost obvious when they are fibbing and when they are not, but yet they use these over exadurations as ways to sell their opinions on to their audience - which just raises more questions, is this morally correct?