This is a topic that probably needs to be touched on.
In this election year, most of us have thoughts and opinions about the things that are going on. It is very natural to have those feelings.
However, we must all take into consideration that within each of our audiences, just like the population in general the crowd is about a 50-50 split. What this means is that if you make a highly charged political comment (through your puppet), for every person who wants to jump up and cheer, there will be some “idiot” who thinks just the opposite.
Be very careful how you approach the subjects this year. Few of us can afford to lose half of our audience to to an unfortunate remark (no matter how true it is.)
It is very hard for me to caution on this topic as I also have strong ideas about things that are going on. I do not in any sense of the word subscribe to “political correctness” at the expense of truth, but in this business just remember that the fewer people that you offend, the more you still have in your audience.
We will talk again next week.
Steve & JET
Agreed!