http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcKswwkTVyE

In this video, John Stewart satirizes negotiation tactics. He targets John Boehner who does not agree with Obama on the fact that taxes should be raised, because Boehner feels as if it is unacceptable. John Stewart's target is on the low level of negotiation skills and the house committee chairman's. John's purpose is to bring a recognition of common sense and to make people realize a change in the way decisions are made should change. He is trying to show people that there is something wrong. In order to reach his goal, he uses techniques such as innuendo, exaggeration, understatement and diminution. John Stewart responds to John Boehner's remark about taxes, by directly questioning his skills at negotiating on issues. His use of exaggeration, especially in his tone, makes the people realize the problem automatically. Understatement was used when the issue on the fact that the house is made up of all white males was brought up. John Stewart used understatement and diminution by completely down sizing the issue and trying to come up with ways to make the house look like it is diverse when it really is not. His use of understatement was used to draw attention to the truth and show its faults. The satirist wants us to know the idiocy behind some of the remarks politicians make and the faults in what they do by directly using satirical techniques.