The Master, Mel Brooks, is a hero of the Satire Wars. That Is Dana Carvey dragged him away. Miller is now the wandering prophet of Satire, converting millions to his ideas. Dennis, if you're out there, save Norm MacDonald now that NBC has freed him from the Evil. But I digress.
Satire only works when it chomps into the truth, when it echoes the reality of the subject at hand.
So, when Wag The Dog came out, it was being pushed as absurdist satire, a laughable look at what might happen. And that only makes this fantastic movie even more funny, even more brilliant. It seems that the President of the US has been a bad boy here a few short weeks before the next presidential election. Ol' Pres has lured an underage Firefly Girl into a hidden room just off the Oval Office for a little, uh, well, let's just say he wasn't buying cookies. He has helped cover scandals for many a moon.