When is a stereotype not a stereotype?

 
Tonight, the Treasurer Joe Hockey will present his first Budget for the Abbott coalition Government. Given the leaks and predictions of 'savage cuts and broken promises', Parliament House, Canberra, has been dubbed for this event The House of Pain.
    
Commonly described as an Economic Rationalist, Hockey has been warning the people of Australia that 'the Economy is in crisis'; that 'the Age of Entitlement is over' and, as a consequence, that 'we must all do some heavy-lifting'.

On Friday last, having sent The Budget to print, Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Corman with their cuban cigar props re-staged the epiLOGOS/HA HA scene from Boston Legal.
       

         

When is a stereotype not a stereotype? Compare the above with this postcard image from a hundred years ago. Form follows function, or what?


       
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