"Red, White, And Beer"

       This piece of satire is written by Dave Barry. He is the speaker of the the story. The tone of this story is very patriotic and sarcastic. Barry shows the intended audience, which is the future readers or the readers of the time how they could be patriotic in commercials. With the use of sarcasm, Barry shows the reader how every commercial fools you by telling you that you are patriotic and supportive of the country if you buy their product. Barry sais that the real patrotism comes in the beer commersials. He is being sarcastic here. There is nothing patriotic in drinking beer, but sadly beer is an icon of America so people follow what the power of the telivision has to offer. He emphasizes how if infuences gangsters because they think that is the way of being patriotic.
       Patriotism is a very big deal because it shows how much you love your country. However, with the use of the television, it is obviously interpreted in the wrong way. Being patriotic does not mean that you have to buy every American product. Barry is sarcastic because he sees small things in commercials that have nothing to do with patriotism. He laughs at commercials that just include the Statue of Liberty in order to make the commercial patriotic. He mocks the stupidity that is places into "patriotic" commercials.

"Toronto Raptors Think Of Really Good Comeback 10 Minutes After Losing Game"

       This article was founded in the Onion. There is no clear identification as to who wrote this article. It only states that it was in Toronto. On Wednesday, the Tornto Raptors lost to the Philidelphia 76ers by an embarassing final score. After the game their center Aaron Gray was interviewed. He and his teammates realized ten minutes after the game that they could have easily won this game. They should have won by simply following fundamentals such as jumping and passing. They also thought as a team about how they have even won twenty games this year.
       This article uses a great deal of humor and sarcasm. It is almost as if it is mocking the Toronto Raptor's team. The humor in this article is that the Raptor's team realized that they could have won ten minutes after the game actually finished. You are supposed to be thinking about winning during the game, not afterwards in the shower. The sarcasm comes in when they say they have no idea how they've won twenty games this year. This is both humor and sarcasm because they are trying to show how the Raptor's team is slow at creating ideas to win during the game as well as just making their team look bad in the interview.