{"id":390,"date":"2009-06-16T14:18:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=390"},"modified":"2009-06-16T14:18:21","modified_gmt":"2009-06-16T21:18:21","slug":"trouble-in-ditto-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Trouble in Ditto City!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My latest song parody.<\/p>\n<p>To the tune of &#8220;Trouble in River City&#8221; from &#8220;The Music Man&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, either you&#8217;re closing your eyes<br \/>\nTo a situation you do not wish to acknowledge<br \/>\nOr you are not aware of the caliber of disaster indicated<br \/>\nBy the presence of the liberals in your community.<br \/>\nWell, ya got trouble, my friend<br \/>\nRight here, I say trouble right here in Ditto City<\/p>\n<p>Why, sure, I&#8217;m a Limbaugh list&#8217;ner, certainly mighty proud<br \/>\nI say I&#8217;m always mighty proud to say it<br \/>\nI consider the hours I spend with the radio on are golden<br \/>\nHelp you &#8216;preciate straight talk and a cool head and a keen eye<br \/>\n&#8216;Jever take and try to find a lick of sense<br \/>\nWhen you&#8217;re hearing a sobbing Glenn Beck rant?<\/p>\n<p>But just as I say it takes judgement, brains and maturity<br \/>\nTo stick with the right-wing way<br \/>\nI say that any boob can take and read a book by Al Franken<br \/>\nAnd I call that sick<br \/>\nThe first big step on the road to the depths of degreda-<\/p>\n<p>I say, first &#8211; it&#8217;s wizards and witches at Hogwarts,<br \/>\nThen Chrstopher Hitchens!<br \/>\nAnd the next thing you know your kids are changing the channel to NPR<br \/>\nAnd listenin&#8217; to some big out-o&#8217;-town lib&#8217;ral<br \/>\nHearin&#8217; him tell about education<br \/>\nNot a wholesome Bible school, no<br \/>\nBut a place where they learn things right outta books!<br \/>\nLike to hear some lib&#8217;ral teacher start reading from Karl Marx?<br \/>\nMake your blood boil, well I should say<\/p>\n<p>Now, friends, let me show you what I mean<br \/>\nYou got one, two, three, four<br \/>\nFive, six commenters on Fox News<br \/>\nAnchors that see no difference between<br \/>\nThe liberals on the air, with a capital<br \/>\n&#8216;L&#8217; and that rhymes with &#8216;hell&#8217; where liberals go!<\/p>\n<p>And all week long, your Ditto City youth&#8217;ll be<br \/>\nFritterin&#8217; away, I say, your young men&#8217;ll be fritterin&#8217;<br \/>\nFritterin&#8217; away their noontime, suppertime, choretime, too<br \/>\nThink the best of Obama<br \/>\nNever mind throwing teabags on the lawn or the taxes cut<br \/>\nOr Al Franken pounded<br \/>\nNever mind rooting for the right wing &#8217;til your parents are caught<br \/>\nWith a Democrat on election day and that&#8217;s trouble<\/p>\n<p>Yes, ya got lots and lots o&#8217; trouble<br \/>\nI&#8217;m thinkin&#8217; of the kids in the gangsta outfits, young ones<br \/>\nSneakin&#8217; off to tune in MSNBC.<br \/>\nYa got liberals, folks, right here in River City<br \/>\nWith a capital &#8216;L&#8217; and that rhymes with &#8216;hell&#8217;<br \/>\nWhere liberals go!<\/p>\n<p>Now I know all you folks are the right kind of people<br \/>\nI&#8217;m gonna be perfectly frank<br \/>\nWould you like to know what kind of conversation goes on<br \/>\nWhile they&#8217;re spinning across the dial?<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll be tryin&#8217; out Rachel, tryin&#8217; out Hardball<br \/>\nTryin&#8217; out Olbermann like socialist fiends<br \/>\nAnd braggin&#8217; all about how they&#8217;re gonna<br \/>\nGet their Fox News clips from HuffPost.<br \/>\nOne fine night they leave your rec room<br \/>\nHeadin&#8217; for the Democrat rally<br \/>\nLibertine men and scarlet women and hip-hop<br \/>\nShameless music that&#8217;ll drag your son, your daughter<br \/>\nInto the arms of a jungle animal instinct massteria!<br \/>\nFriends, the liberal brain is the devil&#8217;s playground, trouble!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, we got lberals<br \/>\nRight here in Ditto City<br \/>\nRight here in Ditto City<br \/>\nWith a capital &#8216;L&#8217; and that rhymes with &#8216;hell&#8217;<br \/>\nWhere liberals go<br \/>\nWhere liberals go<\/p>\n<p>We surely got liberals<br \/>\nWe surely got liberals<br \/>\nRight here in Ditto City<br \/>\nRight here<br \/>\nGotta figure out a way to keep the young ones<br \/>\nMoral after school &#8211; Our children&#8217;s children gonna have<br \/>\nTrouble, trouble, trouble, trouble&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>{Freely}<br \/>\nPeople of Ditto City<br \/>\nHeed that warning before it&#8217;s too late<br \/>\nWatch for the tell-tale signs of corruption<br \/>\nThe minute your son leaves the house<br \/>\nDoes he refasten his waistband below his butt?<br \/>\nIs there a Dixie Chicks sign on his favorite t-shirt?<br \/>\nU2 CD underneath the mattress?<br \/>\nIs he starting to memorize jokes<br \/>\nFrom Daily Show and Colbert?<br \/>\nAre certain words creeping into his conversation?<br \/>\nWords like&#8230; hope?<br \/>\nAnd&#8230; &#8216;stimulus plan&#8217;?<\/p>\n<p>Well if so, my friends, ya got liberals<br \/>\nOh, we got liberals<br \/>\nRight here in Ditto City<br \/>\nRight here in Ditto City<br \/>\nWith a capital &#8216;L&#8217; and that rhymes with Hell where liberals go<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve surely got liberals<br \/>\nWe surely got liberals<br \/>\nRight here in Ditto City<br \/>\nRight here<br \/>\nRemember John Birch, Billy Graham and Tail Gunner Joe?<br \/>\nOur children&#8217;s children gonna have trouble<\/p>\n<p>Oho, we got liberals<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re in terrible, terrible trouble<br \/>\nThat place with the multicolored bird is the devil&#8217;s tool<br \/>\nDevil&#8217;s tool<\/p>\n<p>Yes, we&#8217;ve got trouble, trouble, trouble<br \/>\nOh, yes, we got liberals, we got lots of liberals<br \/>\nWith a capital &#8216;L&#8217;<br \/>\nAnd that rhymes with hell<br \/>\nWhere liberals go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My latest song parody. To the tune of &#8220;Trouble in River City&#8221; from &#8220;The Music Man&#8221; Well, either you&#8217;re closing your eyes To a situation you do not wish to acknowledge Or you are not aware of the caliber of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/?p=390\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,92],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/infmom.net\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}