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Wag the dog is a political term for the act of creating a diversion from a damaging issue usually through military force. It stems from the generic use of the term to mean a small and seemingly unimportant entity (the tail) controls a bigger, more important one (the dog).
Beinhart has indicated that an early inspiration was the works of George Bernard Shaw, who besides his writing skills and wit, "created dramas out of ideas".By this dictum, Beinhart seeks to "create situations in which ideas - about God, why we go to war, who gets the money, how politics work, what the media actually does, about science and morality - are challenged by circumstances".
Wag the Dog may also refer to: Wag the Dog, by Larry Beinhart, 1993, on which the film is based; Wag the Dog, by Mark Knopfler, 1998, a soundtrack for the film; Wag the dog, a political term for a situation in which a seemingly less important entity controls a more important one
Wag the Dog (1997) This political satire from director Barry Levinson may sound far-fetched—but then again, nothing is too outlandish when it comes to political PR.
The overlap between politics and entertainment was satirized in “Wag the Dog,” in which a Hollywood producer stages a fake war to distract from a presidential sex scandal.
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American Hero is a 1993 satirical conspiracy novel, reissued as Wag the Dog: A Novel in 2004, written by Larry Beinhart.It speculates that Operation Desert Storm had been scripted and choreographed as a ploy to get George H. W. Bush reelected to a second term (taking cues from Margaret Thatcher's similar war in the Falkland Islands), while at the same time analyzing exactly why that conflict ...
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