06.07.11
Good Boy!
UPDATED
Today, a cover of Kevin Coyne’s “Good Boy” from his Marjory Razorblade album.
It fits perfectly in the 2011 US of A.
The “Good Boys” are all the white guy journalists and pundits one sees trotted out for the news and opinion shows on TV. They all have great agents, great book deals, the best paying gigs at the best real estate. And they all look and sound the same, of generally liberal persuasion but always smiling and giggling their way through segments on MSNBC or CNN. Yes, the f—— country may be coming apart at the seams but it’s never so bad they can’t say something clever and meant to sound gnomic for the cameras.
Republicans can’t be “Good Boys.” Ugly pricks from the far right are immune to “Good Boy-ism.”
It’s only the fellows on MSNBC, everyone who’s a guest on Chris Matthews or the Rachel Maddow Show, everyone who writes for the Atlantic or the Nation — the cream of the crop.
If another war is declared or the US defaults on its debts and plunges the world into the economic abyss, they’ll still be on hand to provide wisdom and entertainment. Never showing upset or dyspepsia, they’re always the perfect fiddlers for the burning and sacking of Rome.
Don’t leave the girls out. Megan McCardle, Joan Walsh, Melissa Harris Perry Jonathan Capehart, Dana Milbank (oh wait, the last two aren’t women) etc. I know you can think of so many more.
The song lends itself to a pastiche of glued together video segments.
Without further ado, the DD take on “Good Boy.”
Update: I started gathering news clips for this and realized I’d have to look at them all over again, hundreds of times, to get the editing for any video right. That was a great recipe for a blinding headache and I couldn’t face it. Someone else want to jump on the grenade?
Assorted includes: Gene Robinson, the guy from the Nation who is always on Maddow, Marc Ambinder, Howard Fineman, Jonathan Alter, Bill Maher (who pretends to be a malcontent but hosts a “good boy” show masquerading as comedy and criticism), Arianna Huffington …
Mark Smollin said,
June 9, 2011 at 1:19 pm
It is rather interesting that the lickspittlers can only criticize the minutia and rarely have anything of substance to offer relative to the cause of the problems the owners create. Just like taxavoidination, they are ignoring the elephant pooping in the living-room.
DD said,
June 9, 2011 at 5:54 pm
My take is they’re just laughing and indulging themselves as the country burns down. They’re basically like pro wrestler personalities with one difference — guys like the Rock and girls like Chyna weren’t passed off as intellectuals. Their career skill is being smarmy fonts of wisdom and official interpreters on tv, which is a kind of pro wrestling sports entertainment for the upper middle class.
I’m watching Maddow right now and she’s already had two of the “good boys” on. Richard Wolffe and the Poindexter from the Nation.