Sunday, April 18, 2010

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED

Stay home brother, park yourself in your recliner with remote in hand.
Press power, kick back, and fix your face to the screen.
Lose yourself to the hype on FOX and skip past the propaganda on C-SPAN and PBS
TiVo your favorite political pundit talking head and tune in
because The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution will be televised.
The Revolution will be brought to you by Apple and PC's
In 4 parts with commercial interruptions
by Pfizer, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, and new reality shows.
The Revolution will come wrapped in murals of Obama donning a Hitler mustache
to the tune of a bugle blown by Rupert Murdock and a charge led by Dick Cheney,
Bill O'Reilly, and Karl Rove to eat pork barrel policies
confiscated from John Boehner and Eric Cantor's offices on The Hill.
The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution is being brought to you by Premiere Radio
starring Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck
quoting Mccarthy in between ads for a Health Insurance company
that killed your Mother with 2 words or an interest rate hike
that put the bank in the black and you in the red.
The Revolution will not lengthen your life.
The Revolution will not be regulated by an industry or government.
The Revolution will not make you look or feel 5 pounds lighter
because you will plant your roots on the sofa and continue eating the worry
that you've being force fed about the future of your country and its economy.
The Revolution will be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Brangelina
cleaning what remains of New Orleans on a dead block.
Its former residents turned refugee now lie cold and forgotten
in Mother Nature's wake
after trying to carry a 60 inch flat screen to higher ground,
as the President flies over-head trying to explain how
government assistance "got lost in route" or didn't bother to show up.
NBC will devote all of its time to cover it for a week
only to sweep it under the rug for simple stories and popular trends
that have no point or shelf life to speak of in every district in all 50 states.
The Revolution will be televised.

Youtube video clips of cops beating the public and watch it replay.
Youtube video clips of cops beating the public and watch it replay.
Watch them beat that female bartender within an inch of her life
only to get a slap on the wrist and a paid vacation.
See videos of tea party "liberationists" with poor grammar and misspelled signs
ill informed and funded by a corporate sponsor call their campaign grass roots.
FOX news will call your President a terrorist and themselves patriots
to make up in ratings what they lack in integrity and sponsorship
watch their co-workers call it a national trend without siting the source,
because The Revolution will be televised.

Real Housewives, Biggest Loser, The Apprentice, and Flavor of Love
will no longer be so damned relevant,
and women won't care if McDreamy got down with Izzie on Grey's Anatomy
because the public will be pre-occupied by Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly
stealing any hope one could have for a brighter day.
The Revolution will be televised.

Highlights will play on a 24/7 news cycle on the hour, every hour
with interludes of Brittany Spears showing her cooch as she gets out of a car
along with a slide show of Republicans holding a smoking barrel,
shrugging emotionless with a freshly painted palm.
The theme song won't be written by Alice Wine
but tragedy will be extorted by Alan Jackson and Toby Keith
with a false pretense of patriotism.
The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution will be right back after this commercial break
full of promises by snakes in suits that exist in a never ending election year,
promising lower taxes, less government, capitalism,
a personal cradle made of gold to rock you to sleep,
and bucket of sunshine and happiness to help you rise every morning.
The revolution will go better with a Xanax and Jack Daniels.
The Revolution will get you strip searched and felt up at the airport with an audience.
The Revolution will keep the cruise control on.

The Revolution will be televised, will be televised, will be televised, will be televised and you can watch that re-run brother, if you miss it live.

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