Since I'm Still Getting Flack For Dissing The "Satirist" Mort Sahl

I don't want to go over this anymore but, here, from an article in Mother Jones, detailing the work Sahl's idea of a candidate worth endorsing was up to in his later years.

-  So long as a regime, however repressive, allied itself with the United States' interests in the Cold War, Secretary of State Haig would embrace it -- as so many of his predecessors had done. He supported the apartheid government in South Africa, pushed for military aid to the junta in Turkey, coddled the Suharto dictatorship in Indonesia, and was a staunch supporter of the Marcos kleptocracy in the Philippines. After right-wing government forces in El Salvador raped and murdered four American churchwomen, Haig responded by informing a House committee investigating the atrocity that the vehicles the nuns were riding in may have tried to run a roadblock. Never mind that the women were found with bullets in the backs of their heads, 20 miles away from the roadblock in question.

- In 1988, Haig made his first and only run for public office when he sought the Republican presidential nomination. It was not an auspicious debut: The most influential person to endorse him was political comedian Mort Sahl. Haig pulled out of the race following the Iowa caucuses, where he finished seventh in a field of six candidates. With 364 votes -- 0.3 percent -- Haig had less than half the tally of the sixth-place finisher, "No preference."

- Haig has demonstrated remarkable flexibility in selecting clients, being equally comfortable with despots on the right and left. In 1993, President Saparmurad Niyazov of Turkmenistan hired the general to advise him on winning U.S. business and political support for a natural-gas pipeline project that would cross Iran. Niyazov, a longtime Communist Party hack, was elected in 1992 with 99.5 percent of the votes cast. Human Rights Watch's current world report said his government "continued to deny its citizens nearly every civil and political right" while operating "a Soviet-style secret police" that allowed for "no political opposition, no freedom of assembly, no opportunity for public debate."

That's just a small part of what Sahl's main man was up to,  just to see how influential his "satire" of the 1960s was on his own thinking.