The Lies of FOX News
The classics are great, aren't they? Probably why they're called classics…. Anyway, I was listening to this song yesterday and a new last line popped into my head and stayed there. This is the result. And I figure, it's probably what Paul Simon was trying to say, anyway.
Hello Logic, my old friend, I’ve come to talk with you again
Because insanity does surround me, Tea Party hate-riots all around me.
Because insanity does surround me, Tea Party hate-riots all around me.
Is there no lie so stupid that people won’t believe it’s true? What can I do
about the lies of FOX News?
From innuendo, they’ve moved on, it’s lies and lunacy they’ve spawned
They say Obama is just like Hitler, the lies grow bigger and our minds, littler.
Sara Palin says health care is a sin, Beck is crying about Muslims again….someone said “Amen”
'Cause God writes for FOX News.
And I saw, on the National Mall, 10 thousand people- FOX said more:
People hating without thinking, talking crazy like they’d been drinking
People waving guns and making normal people scared. No one dared
Refute the lies of FOX News.
Fools, said I, you do not know, these lies just like a cancer grow
Illegal aliens will not eat you! Please learn to spell-check; yes, I will teach you
But my words were called an atheist, socialist plot, and I was shot…
Down by the lies of FOX news.
And the people bowed and prayed to a Reagan God they’d made
The Daily Kos flashed out its warning… why do we sit there while the earth’s warming?
And the blog said “Obama’s birth certificate is available to view on line… like yours and mine”
But was swallowed by the lies, of FOX News….
Tracy Meisky is a poet, writer, singer, songwriter and all-around boat rocker from way back. Feel free to look around, but if you break it, you bought it.
Thanks for making this public… most wonderously true, funny and sickening, all at the same time. Not easy to pull off in a single piece.