Wag a Pooch was produced & directed by Barry Levinson, famous for the television series Homicide and Oz. David Mamet co-wrote the screenplay. the film is according to a novel, American Hero by Larry Beinhart. In a novel, the President is specifically George Herbert Walker Bush.

A film explores good themes, like a manipulation of the mass media and public opinion, with the comical sensibility. A film drew attention at a period for similarities to the Clinton sex scandal, although the film besides makes information to the foremost Gulf War as an example of war used as an electoral manoeuvre. ("American Hero" is explicitly rest on the premiss that George H. W. Bush concocted the war on the advice of the late Lee Atwater.) The idea of war as a creation of the media is not, of course, original to the movie. A French postmodernist Jean Baudrillard's ideas in particular are relevant to a discussion of the movie — see for example his essay The Gulf War Did Not Take Place.

A title of a motion picture is taken from either the joke: "Why does a dog wag its tail? Because a dog is smarter than its tail. If the tail was smarter, the tail would wag the dog." Interpretations differ when to the meaning of this metaphor. A bit of indicate a run is vox populi, & a hindquarters is a media; a mutt is a media, & a backside is political campaigns; or even a puppy is the humans, & the rear is the government. What is more, a expression "the tail wagging the dog" refers to any out break in which something of greater significance (like the war) is caused by something lesser (like the sex scandal).

A videos cassette version contains a long trailer when a credits that has comment all about a motion-picture show in the context of Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky by the producers of the movie & Tom Brokaw.

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