Are politicians 'off limits'? Just here in Mexico

Yesterday I posted a brief comment about a video with Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, where the first one mocks again Sarah Palin, the VP candidate of the Republican Party.

In US there is a healthy practice: to show the weaknesses and mistakes the politicians have, even the President. Nevertheless, in Mexico this is not usual.

Here politicians, specially the President, are almost 'off limits' in TV shows.

I think we still have very present a time when the President was the most powerful person in Mexico, and talking about any kind of weakness was a dangerous thing to do. Some of them even ordered to disappear his opponents.

But now, even if we have more liberty to talk about the public figures than in previous times, there should be more spoofs of the President, candidates and every important person in politics.

In contrast, there are just some glimpses of comedy in segments of news programm, and they only cover some aspects of politics, but they lack of real 'sting', (i.e. they only mock partially or stuff that is not really important).

In my opinion, the media, by not having this kind of expressions, are showing they act as if they were in the past. I believe the censorship must disappear and that Mexicans are intelligent enough to judge by themselves if a comedian is showing something relevant or the government is right in its decisions.