Obama laughs at presidential seal mishap

This article discusses how popular culture relates to politics. In chapter 17 of the textbook it talks about how the current popular culture of music, film, television, and other forms of entertainment have an impact on politics. Even though these forms of popular culture can be seen as negative, they have a positive impact on politicians credibility when attempting to relate to an audience, sometimes. In fact, it is a way of showing the audience that politicians are not always serious. Jon Stewart is one example.
In Obama’s case, the presidential seal drops and after it drops he cracks a joke. Once he got the audience to laugh, he continued to entertain them by going deeper into the fact that he dropped the presidential seal. When politicians like Obama are amongst crowds whose attention is in need of being grasped, entertainment can be a route that draws the attention of the crowd. The more a politician entertains an audience in some way, shape, or form, the more the audience is going to attend to the message being given. Obama is very successful in getting the audience to laugh, not only by relating to the audience, but by adapting to their level of sensibility.

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