Operation Supergoose - Political Satire for the 21st Century: MacBush

Back in 1967 I saw a then popular Off-Broadway play called "MacBird'" an obvious yet entertaining look at the administration of the then decreasingly popular President of this country, Lyndon Johnson. As is the case with most political satire, the references were not oblique or vague: the representative characterizations were intended to be obvious - and were. Although not a favorite of the critics at the time, that play written by Barbara Garson (and starring the then little known actor, Stacey Keach in the title role) was a big hit with theater goers who were opposed to the war in Viet Nam and to the administration that seemed to be perpetuating and growing it. Satire can be expressed in many forms. Gary Trudeau has developed it into a comic-strip art form in "Doonesbury" and Stephen Cobert's "Cobert Report" is having a similar (but differently twisted) impact on television political satire. And now comes a literary version of intentionally obvious, exaggerated and at times truly laughable political satirization of the current administration in William Hart's newest novel, "Operation Supergoose."