It was true. The message that the Democrat party didn't have anyone to vote for then. After Michael Dukakis it was all downhill for this party. They had one person who got them back on track with Clinton but then they went right back to being unvoteable where they still are now.
lukejbarnett

I don't expect to see a message about saving the environment
Was that the same message that
put every one to sleep
at the Press Club Dinner? I think you may have taken it too seriously.

I don't think there was any real message per se, although if people did take a 'pro-environment'/'anti-energy-waste' one from this film surely that's a very good thing. But the environment was, at the time, a faddish issue and thus ripe to form a basis for the film's humour (thankfully, these days people are a bit more committed to the issue of global warming and realise that it's a pressing issue that need to be addressed NOW and now simply as a passing fashion).
Funnily enough, for all the criticisms aimed at the film's so-called liberal slant, David Zucker of ZAZ fame, later went on to make the very right-wing 'An American Carol' one of the most notoriously political 'comedies' of modern cinema. Also, the 'Hot Shots' films, which was made by Jim Abrahams, are clearly very patriotic, pro-Iraq War films on balance.

It's not that heavyhanded a joke. The acronyms accorded the groups were hilarious. That has nothing to do with saving the environment. It's called "humor". If Drebin and company were about the environment, 30 minutes would have been devoted to the waste caused by the bomb explosion.

Since the election of Ronald Reagan.

When did saving the environment become political?

lol what? You're living in complete fantasy. Care to provide a source to where climate change was "proven" to be untrue? Right-wing conspiracy sites don't count. 98% of scientists around the globe are in agreement that it is happening. Just because you can't understand the science does not make it untrue.

You mean now that we've proven the environmental movement is a complete fraud? Now that we know "global warming" and other hysteria are nothing but paranoid fantasies cooked up by the socialist intelligentsia to try and scare people into voting for the communist agenda and against their own personal economic interests?
"Pretentious" is a three-syllable word for any thought too big for little minds.

"Well, well, well- looks like the cows have come home to roost."

"I think what really hurts is that this sort of WAS funny back in the day. Now that the chickens have come home to roost, not so funny any more. "
I agree.

I think what really hurts is that this sort of WAS funny back in the day. Now that the chickens have come home to roost, not so funny any more.

So saving the environment is a bad thing now?
"That was a courtesy flush. I'm not actually done yet"

I didn't care about that. The whole film was funny. I especially liked Drebin's closing speech where he says, "I WANT A WORLD WHERE THE DEMOCRATS WILL PUT SOMEBODY UP THERE WORTH VOTING FOR!!!!!!" and everybody is cheering and Bush applauds, then catches himself.

If you took a serious message from any "Naked Gun" film or "Police Squad" episode, you need serious help.