South Park’s Election Day Satire
South Park aired a tremendous satire of election day and especially of the partisan reaction to Barack Obama’s victory and John McCain’s defeat. They perfectly satirize the reaction of McCain supporters and Obama supporters to Obama’s victory perfectly with Obama supporters chanting “Yes we can!” and “Obama, Obama, Obama!” and then wondering what it is they can do now.
McCain supporters, meanwhile, are depicted as overly depressed, fearing that America will be destroyed by the “most inexperienced” man to be elected president ever.
McCain and Obama themselves, meanwhile, could not care less about the election result: they are members of an “Ocean 11″ team, and plan to use the election parties in order to carry out “a great heist”: stealing the “Hope diamond,” worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Kyle’s little brother Ike, meanwhile, tries to commit suicide by jumping from a five feet high window because he is a McCain supporter who believes that America’s economy will be destroyed by a President Obama.
Watch a short clip from the episode, for the rest, go to the South Park website:
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