Puppets Make Me Laugh

The most telling part of TA's right-wing satiricial content is when Arec Baw-win is speaking to the media. He recounts the days destruction and says something along the lines of "who is to blame for today's events? Is it the terrorists themselves? No. Is it the people in power who equip these people with weapons of mass destruction? No. It is Team America World Police." Baldwin argues that TA's recklessness and irresponsibility caused the terrorist's retaliation on the Panama Canal (I think that is what they bombed, but I might be mistaken).

This speaks to the left-wing train of thought that sees liberals as weak and ignorant. Obviously suicidal crazed terrorists are to be blamed. Clearly people who use their money, power or status to help fund and thereby encourage terrorist activities are culpable for the consequent destruction and death toll. The South Park boys poke fun at the idea that America has somehow asked for terrorists to attack our home soil; that our foreign policy warrants some sort of retaliation.

Those who argued that we deserved or more appropriately, provoked 9/11, even in the slightest form, have lost sight of the true terror and evil that drives people willing to act as terrorist martyrs. TA tries to show how ridiculous this train of thought is by using Baldwin as their puppet (no pun intended, but it was nice, right?). This type of humor is why the movie can be considered satirical of right-wing politics.