Ted Kennedy — Wrong! Cindy Sheehan — Wrong! France — Wrong! Zell Miller — Right!
Contributing to the echo-chamber of Internet bloggery with the latest big “Check this Out” thingamajing: I notice a genre that crosses all media of sort of (heavily handed and somewhat cluelessly) youth-targeted low-budget Right wing agit-prop. It’s not quite as flooded as youth-marketed Fundamentalist Christian schtuff, but we’ll get there. Remember the comic book about how a cy-borg versions of Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North in a future Liberal Dystopia would kick Islamo-Fascist and Liberal Ass to save the world? Well… tear down the science-fiction motif and The Right Brothers provide the soundtrack. (And here I thought that all of the Country Music Industry provided the jingoistic tics to get us moving?)
The Right Brothers, a conservative music duo out of Nashville, has released a new song that does what needed to be done: it tells the TRUTH. Titled Bush Was Right, the song hits the listener with fact after fact after fact – but the tune is so catchy, and the music is so driving, you can’t help but sing along (especially on the chorus)!
The truth about Iraq… the truth about the economy… the TRUTH… set to music.
This is what the youth in America need. They’re already bombarded with songs on the radio and videos on MTV that trash our President, conservative beliefs, and traditional American values. From Mosh by Eminem, to Idiot Son of an A**hole by NOFX… all of these songs serve to fill young people’s minds with LIES.
And of course, everywhere they turn, the mainstream media is lying to them about the FACTS — like the FACT that WMDs were found in Iraq, including enriched uranium, chemical weapons agents, chemical warheads containing cyclosarin, radioactive materials in powdered form, roadside bombs loaded with mustard and “conventional” sarin gas, etc.; or the FACT of clear, uncontested, proven links between Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Al Qaeda; or the FACTS of all of the GOOD news that’s happening in Iraq, which the media refuses to report! (Um? Urm? Er? Huh?)
We think it’s time they hear the TRUTH – so we’re launching a full-out nationwide campaign to get this new song full of TRUTH onto MTV and radio stations across America!
WILL YOU HELP US? We’re putting together a “kickin'” music video right now, and we’re preparing a HUGE grassroots campaign to get hundreds of thousands of people to request Bush Was Right! on MTV’s “Total Request Live” show… leading to our demands for it to be played in regular rotation! If they DON’T – then we’ll hit the media in a BIG way, showing how MTV plays left-wing videos while CENSORING conservative videos!
The Chorus that you can’t help sing along with:
Bush was right!
Bush was right!
Bush was right!
added to that after subsequent verses:
Ted Kennedy – wrong!
Cindy Sheehan – wrong!
France – wrong!
Zell Miller – right!
This is actually their second “hit” single to strike (however negligibly) the public conciousness. If you’d surf through right-wing talk radio, you’d have stumbled upon their “Hey Hollywood” song… “We heard your message and it don’t sound good.” Other songs from the “Right Brothers” catalouge… “Somewhere in Baghdad”, about a woman and her child newly liberated in some Iraq that… maybe there is a science-fiction motif to these songs after all, because this song appears to take place in an alternate universe:
She can’t believe the changes that she’s seen
She’s got a new job, a TV and a kitchen full of food
She’ll be making lunches while the kids both sleep
‘Cause tomorrow’s the first day at their new school
Or the ode to Reaganomics, “Trickle Down”, which asks the question “When’s the last time a poor man gave you a job?”
Trickle down, trickle down let the money trickle down
It won’t do anybody good buried in the ground
Trickle down, trickle down let the money spread around
And one day it’ll be my turn and mine will trickle down
Nothing like dancing to the beat of Trickle Down Economics! Urm?…
They tried to stop “The Passion” but they think the truth is in “Farenheit 911”
They hate the Constitution but they love judges legislating from the bench
If Michael Moore became the president they’d think they’d died and gone to heaven
Can’t stand “fair and balanced” but can’t get enough of the U.N. and the French
Okay. Enough of this. Turn it out. Toss on the “American Idiot” Green Day album. Ayn Randians can throw on that goddamned awful Rush album, “2112”. The Neoconservatives will just have to wait a while longer for their soundtrack…