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{{cleanup|The examples section contains no examples from outside of the USA. Examples from other countries are requested.}}
This page is about any kind of way that media tries to make the "other side" look bad. There are lots of variations on stereotypes. Not all stereotypes are bad, and not all of them are ''entirely'' inaccurate (or defamatory). But they can offend people.
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=== [[Film]] ===
* The Film Actors' Guild ([[Fun with Acronyms|FAG]]), from the film ''[[Team America]]: World Police'', is a parody of strawman liberals, to the point where they ally with Kim Jong-Il (the film's [[Big Bad]]) in a misguided attempt to bring peace to the world. The heroes approach the conservative side, although they are clearly a bunch of bungling destructive idiots.
* The movie ''Shooter'' had the cartoonishly evil Republican Senator Charles Meachum.
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** See also [[Author On Board|every single]] [[The Fundamentalist|Christian character]] he's ever depicted, ever.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[The Colbert Report]]'', as a satirical pundit show, has both. Stephen Colbert's entire purpose for existing is to serve as a strawman conservative. In the early days of the show he was occasionally contrasted with liberal strawman milquetoast Russ Lieber, played by comedian David Cross. More recently, he has begun imagining his liberal opposite from a [[Mirror Universe]], who wears tweed jackets and has a mustache, among other things.
** Briefly, during the show's coverage of the Vancouver Olympics, he also had a dour effete French Canadian counterpart who hosted the "Colbert Report" (both "t"'s pronounced)
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* In ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'' the main characters parents were this, Dharma's being a mix of Democrat and Green and Greg's straight Republican, especially Greg's mother and Dharma's father.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[American Dad]]'' - Stan Smith, the gun-toting CIA-operative lead is a Strawman Conservative, played for laughs. His daughter Hayley is a Strawman Liberal, played for laughs as well. Hayley generally comes across as the more sensible of the two. In a departure from this trope's norms, Stan is consistently portrayed with sympathy and insight.
** Beyond being a Strawman Conservative, Stan's major "thing" is that he will latch immediately onto any ideology that catches his fancy. For example, he once briefly converted to Islam because Francine was bugging him and he liked the idea of being able to control his wife. Stan is a universal strawman: an impulsive zealot, but lovable enough that the writers can use him to parody and pillory the excesses of any political position without losing the audience.
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