In a public discussion about the US election, the political commentator and one-time Keating speechwriter Don Watson posited that the American public finds it difficult to tell the difference between reality and fantasy. Never were the lines more blurrily drawn than in Wag the Dog, Barry Levinson’s pitch-black comedy from 1997.
According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the tail wagging the dog describes a situation in which “an important or powerful person, organization, etc., is being controlled by someone or something that is much less important or powerful”.
