Keep the Damn Government out of My Taxpayer-Provided Healthcare!
I would have to agree that this effectively summarizes the Republican position. Restricting unnecessary medical expenses under Medicare — death panels! Providing health insurance to the working poor so they won’t suffer or die unnecessarily — communism!
UPDATE: The competition for worst song of the past 5 years is not quite as clear-cut as the above video would make it seem.
Does Jonah Goldberg get royalties off this?
Are we sure he didn’t write it? Although it’s certainly unfunny enough to be a Stevens original.
You know who else used to like to run around naked in public?
Hitler’s Dog
This exceeds my capacities for both snark and dismay.
I think no further proof is needed of the inherent evils of capitalism and the for profit healthcare industry.
Marge: I think there’s really something wrong with Santa’s Little
Helper. He was up barking all night, and dug up the back
yard worse than ever.
[they all look out the window at the dug-up back yard]
Lisa: [gasps] My bongo drums!
Bart: [gasps] My strobelight!
Homer: [gasps] My “Best of Ray Stevens featuring `The Streak’”
album! So it was the _dog_ that buried all our stuff.
Marge: Yes, the dog.
I always think of that scene every time Ray Stevens’ name comes up.
Ray Stevens is no C.S. Lewis, Jr.
I have a certain amount of residual childhood affection for Ray Stevens. He started his comic career pretty much as a musical rip-off of the late Bro. Dave Gardner. Interestingly, late in his career, Bro. Dave’s act consisted primarily of George Wallace-cheering and race baiting, and it’s interesting – to me, anyway – to see Stevens has followed suit. And now that I think of it, the last couple things Jerry Clower did before he passed were basically exercises in hippie punching and “anyone but small-town Southerner” hating. Maybe when country-oriented comics get old, they get irredeemably right wing. They sure as hell get unfunny.
No, The great Ralph Stanley is progressive. The Stanley Brothers have moved from 1948 Southern Democrat (supporting Truman) to 2008 (a radio spot for Obama)
I don’t know if one would call Andy Griffith a comic per se, but he supported Obama/Biden in 2008.
It took me nearly a minute of watching this to realize that it is not, in fact, a parody.
Not sure if that says more about me or more about modern American conservatism.
More proof that you cannot parody modern American conservatism.