Hillabee Clinton

I really enjoyed the discussion about simulations in respect to politics and entertainment in the preview on mondays lecture. It is really interesting to see how important simulacra can have an affect on changing the minds of people, in the sense that the simulations can change peoples' minds in what they think is "real" or not. As Professor Chun pointed out, seeing Hillary Clinton and Amy Poehler in the SNL skit is really personal to the viewer; Poehler does not present a real critique, only the hallucination of a critique. Simulations such as these can be the greatest direct way to get a point across. Since it is all in humor, anything goes. But do politicians do media stunts like this as a ploy to get more votes? I think so. I imagine the average SNL watcher is not well educated on the precession of simulacra and probably do not realize that such media ploys affect them as much as they really do. This works the same way I feel in the realm of political cartoons, where people can get the most "bang for their buck" of the latest political information in one glance at the newspaper.