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When presenting this information it is important to understand and focus on key language strategies John Stewart uses to represent “occupation.” His main language strategy is to present the issue, “occupation” in a farcical way. His comedy aims to entertain the audience by means of verbal humor in varying degrees of sophistication, which include word play, and culminating in an ending which often involves an elaborate chase scene. Farce is also characterized by physical humor as the use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense, and broadly stylized performances. One way Stewart does this is by starting off the show with a metaphor.
This particular episode about “occupation” starts off with John Stewart making up his own name for the “occupation” by naming it “mess-o-potamia.” Mess-o-potamia is a rhetorical trope that describes “occupation” as being or equal to a mess or disaster in decision made by the United States. Thus, occupation can be efficiently described because implicit and explicit characteristics from mess-o-potamia. This word play imitates the government’s style of naming invasions to poke at it and show the real meaning behind what is going on in Iraq. This falls in line with the controversy of the term. The left sidedness of The Daily Show and at least half of the United States population most of them being liberal disagree with the occupation of Iraq and would consider it a “mess-o-potamia.”
The next part of the show involves John Stewart comedic commentary on President Bush’s speeches and the antics of other political leaders to create his own political satire in farcical manner. In this part of the episode, it is important to understand how the media can control ideology through what stories get told and which stories are told most. That brings about the question, ‘How much access do we have as the public?’ Fortunately, John Stewart cuts up media into clip and presents it to the public...
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