BUSH WAS RIGHT!

This post has been getting some traffic lately. Update below.

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On Monday, I received an email entitled "Help Teach American Youth That 'Bush Was Right'!"
It was similar to another email from weeks ago recommending the song "Bush Was Right!" [RAM] by The Right Brothers.
So I was already familiar with the lyrics:

Democracy is on the way, hitting like a tidal wave
All over the middle east, dictators walk with shaky knees
Don't know what they're gonna do, their worst nightmare is coming true
They fear the domino effect, they're all wondering who's next

Bush was right! (four times)

Ted Kennedy - wrong!
Cindy Sheehan - wrong!
France - WRONG!
Zell Miller - right!

Economy is on the rise kicking into overdrive
Angry liberals can't believe it's cause of W's policies
Unemployment's staying down, Democrats are wondering how
Revenue is going up, can you say "Tax Cuts"

Now, online advocacy group RightMarch.com is asking us to lobby MTV on behalf of the song:

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!

I'm a musician and I have lots of musician friends. I don't know a one that feels entitled to MTV exposure. Furthermore, MTV is not a bastion of liberalism, everyone knows it is a bastion of crass commercialism. The network is pretty up front on that one. And the idea of MTV being a pedagogical device seems to come from a parallel universe.
But what a song!
It is deliciously bad. I can't stop listening to this :50sec clip [RAM]

Not only is it's main melody a perfect copy of "We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel but it is also the only rock song ever to heap praise on Zell Miller.
Dig those neon harmonies and shrink-wrapped guitar licks.
Groove on the cozy disinformation and sledge-hammer subtlety.

Want more? The Right Brothers' web site has excerpts from some of their videos!
"Tolerate This" [MOV] shows our scruffy heroes singing against some lunatic on a bicycle who cannot tolerate Christians, large cars or heterosexual marriages. The villain accosts people, steals their Bibles and presumably represents a liberal. Wow.

Ideally, MTV will bait this situation for big laughs. They can deny televising the video on the very likely grounds that the video will suck ... and suck hard. It will be out in a few days.
Then RightMarch can employ their well-practiced cry-baby routine as planned.
In the process, more people can heap ridicule on this spectacularly ill-conceived song.
And then Billy Joel can sue them.
I hope RightMarch is successful in bringing public attention to "Bush Was Right!" because it is so enormously entertaining. But hey, I like Ed Wood and the Shaggs.

Keith Olbermann covers the story on MSNBC. Definitely worth checking out.

-- McLir

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UPDATE

The entire "Bush Was Right" video is available at
You Tube and
Huffington Post

It's actually a fairly boring performance video.
Keith Olbermann and the folks at Countdown did a better mix here.