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One-Tract Mind
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When a politician or other public figure has a message so important that he has to insert it into all his speeches, no matter how irrelevant to what they're supposed to be about. Compare Author Tract and Writer on Board, which is when the people at the keyboards are prone to this. Single-Issue Wonk is an in-universe example where this is something incredibly petty. |
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Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski will take any excuse to bring up the Vietnam War and the problems veterans of said war face, focusing on that issue above all others. He even brings it up during a funeral, earning the Dude’s ire. Made even sillier by a deleted scene which reveals he’s not even a real veteran. | |
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A Doonesbury cartoon just before the 2004 election has George W. Bush's press secretary answer every single question with "9/11". The punch line: | |
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One issue of MAD featured a comic strip depicting then-recent then-President George W. Bush as a superhero. His power was that as long as he kept saying "9/11!", he was invincible. | |
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Animal Farm: Many of Napoleon's speeches end with the dire warning that "Jones will come back" if the animals do not obey whatever his latest diktat is. | |
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The Onion articles "Bush on Economy: 'Saddam Must Be Overthrown'" and "Bush on North Korea: 'We Must Invade Iraq.'" | |
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Charlie Brooker's Newswipe - The time: February 2010, the man: David Cameron. The overriding compulsion: to use the phrase "Broken politics" at any and every opportunity. Even worse, this is a spin-off of his next favorite meme, "Broken Britain". | |
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Inevitably came up a few times on The West Wing, such as in one episode where the Democrats were about to come out with their tax plan and Will, the new deputy communications director, was working with a staff of only four inexperienced interns to write tax policy into every measly statement the president or the White House was going to make in the coming days. | |
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Parodied in Last Action Hero; Ah-nuld uses a mention of Hollywood to plug his restaurant, right after his wife told him not to. "It was a good opportunity." | |
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Transformers (2019): Nominus Prime just cannot shut up about overconsumption of fuel and preventing energy crises. His preoccupation with the subject is a tad understandable, considering Cybertron had only just overcome a devastating energy shortage (and a war caused in part by said shortage), but quickly gets ridiculous when he starts to lecture the Constructicons about recreational use of fuel at a party held in their honor. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One," Brian advises Lois, in her campaign for mayor, to pander to undecided voters by giving them short, simple answers. She tests out a few phrases, and when she gets the most applause with "9/11 was bad," she decides to make "9/11" the answer to all remaining questions. | |
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