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* [[Sequelitis]]: Invoked. According to the book, John Locke's ''Second Treatise on Government'' was panned by critics "who saw it as a flimsy pretext to bring back the characters from the ''First Treatise''".
* [[Some of My Best Friends Are X]]: There's a section listing the most controversial Supreme Court nominees. One of them is (fictitious) Floyd Burnington, who was a member of the KKK. The book notes: "But some of his best friends were... Actually, they were all white."
* [[Strawman News Media]]: The media get a ''huge'' [[Take That]] in the form of a one-page rant about how they have abdicated their responsibilities of fact-checking government processes in favor of ratings. Namely, "'Was President Bush successful in convincing Americans to go to war with Iraq?' Who ''gives'' a shit!? How about whether he was telling the ''truth''?" That and the fact that they spent 3 hours outside of the courthouse for Kobe Bryant's rape trial to hear the ''hearing date'', as well as coverage of the last season of ''[[Friends]]''
* [[Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom]]: The more pleasant and optimistic an African government/country sounds the more dangerous and depraved it is. The wording could apply to [[Engrish|Japan]] as well.
* [[Take That]]: A section for mock political cartoons aims specifically at comics like the conservative-leaning ''[[Mallard Fillmore]]'' and the liberal-leaning ''[[Doonesbury]]''. The MF stand-in ends the strip with "Oops! I forgot to tell a joke", a stab at Fillmore's tendency to go on [[Author Tract|Author Tracts]]
* [[Your Mom]]: According to the book, Senator McCarthy responded to Joseph N. Welch's famous question "Have you no sense of decency, sir?" with "Indeed I do, sir, only I seem to have left it on your mother's nightstand."
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