I’m here tonight to speak out against busting schoolchildren. Busting schoolchildren is a terrible, terrible thing. I hear this is going on all over the country. Mean policemen arrest little children and put them in jail in the wrong neighborhood, so they can’t even play with their little friends.

Emily Litella was a character from Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update segment, who presented opposing viewpoints to important issues of the day, which she invariably misheard or misunderstood. The above example was an opposition piece for the misheard bussing schoolchildren.

Challenge: Take any current social issue that catches your fancy, “mishear” it, and write an editorial piece against that misheard issue. Any length, and go for comedic effect.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Litella
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/75/75gupdate.phtml