From the Parody Project, an entertaining video that made me laugh just as much as the fantastic M4GW “climategate” video, done to the tune of Don McLean’s “American Pie”.
While some may not think it’s appropriate for WUWT, we do have a “politics” and “satire” category, and it is quite good, so enjoy.
My best advice? Share it to annoy your liberal friends, watch their heads explode when one of their favorite songs gets turned into a political satire piece.
LYRICS TO “THE DAY COLLUSION DIED”
Two long years ago the probe began and many thought that someday it would make them smile. And those who said it had no chance were scowled upon and seen askance so desperate was the hope to see a trial.
But February made them shiver as it came clear he’d not deliver. The news that they desired was not to be acquired. I know that many people cried when they read the news, it hurt their pride, so deeply in the pipe dream mired the day collusion died.
So bye, bye to the collusion lie, Russian Agents, Putin’s Puppet and a plot to deny. From each new event how the conjecture would fly. Can they let it go and just let it die? Let it go and just let it die.
We all know that he’s corrupt and his list of crimes is building up so I’ll just list them down below. While emoluments could’ve kicked the goal collusion was their chosen roll investigating all of it real slow.
Well, the Media then lost their mind as they blundered backward fully blind. Collusion became news, evidence not vital for clues. The other news stories all were then chucked while collusion filled every news truck But I knew they ran out of luck the day collusion died.
But they kept singing Bye, bye he’s a Russian ally Putin Puppet, Russian agent and a treasonous spy and every day, more wacky theories would fly. Time to let it go and just let it to die. Let it go and just let it die.
Now when Mueller issued his report the media could not contort it to save face though they did try. They lost all credibility. Embarrassed is what they should be, and the damage done they cannot deny.
They gave victory to the president, validation as if heaven sent. The courtroom was adjourned, no verdict was returned. And now when he screams about fake news he’ll be correct thanks to their ruse. The “Witch Hunt” he’ll rightfully accuse the day collusion died.
‘cause they were singing Bye, bye he’s a Russian ally Putin Puppet, Russian agent and a treasonous spy And every day, more crazy theories would fly time to let it go and just let it to die. let it go and just let it die.
I met a girl who sang the blues. She she asked me for some happy news. I offered but she just turned away. Those who followed actual facts instead of “liberal media” hacks would know that Mueller knew the only way.
He farmed out criminal indictments to seven districts, there’s excitement, all of them pardon-proof, not like the collusion spoof. So carefully he did anoint a prosecution starting point the outcome couldn’t disappoint the day collusion died.
Yet they’re still singing Bye, bye he’s a Russian ally Putin Puppet, Russian agent and a treasonous spy. The Russian hysteria was misplaced outcry. Time to let it go and just let it die. Let it go and just let it die.
So, bye, bye to the collusion lie, Collusion obsession-gave the press a black eye.
And if they persist the damage will amplify
Time to let it go and just let it die.
HISTORY OF THE SOURCE MATERIAL “American Pie” is a song by American singer and songwriter Don McLean. Recorded and released on the American Pie album in 1971, the single was the number-one US hit for four weeks in 1972 and also topped the charts in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand.
The repeatedly mentioned phrase “the day the music died” refers to the plane crash in 1959 that killed early rock and roll performers Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens. (The crash was not known by that name until after McLean’s song became a hit.) The meaning of the other lyrics has long been debated, and for decades, McLean declined to explain the symbolism behind the many characters and events mentioned.
However, the overall theme of the song is the loss of innocence of the early rock and roll generation as symbolized by the plane crash that claimed the lives of three of its heroes.
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Joel– Re: your comments on Mueller.
I had a brief article published last summer about Mueller as a Grand Inquisitor. Also mentions in England in the 1360s an account of a magistrate who was out to get someone. He grabbed one of his enemy’s servants and tortured the poor man until the magistrate got the story he needed for conviction.
A US judge last summer observed that Mueller wanted Trump’s people, not just to “sing” but to “compose” the evidence needed for conviction.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/special-counsel-robert-mueller-grand-inquisitor
We are so lost.
There are unintentional consequences when the news organizations become a mouth piece for one party.
Could you imagine the fake news reaction if Trump’s relatives were doing the same thing now?
This is an outrage, crazy. A clear and present threat to US security. This is an organized Chinese attack.
It is unbelievable that there is obvious evidence of Chinese buying, during the time of the Obama administration, of key Democrats and the fake news has been completely quiet about the stinking mess.
This should be an election issue. There should be an independent congressional investigation.
https://nypost.com/2018/03/15/inside-the-shady-private-equity-firm-run-by-kerry-and-bidens-kids/
Inside the shady private equity firm run by Kerry and Biden’s kids
…Over the next seven years, as both Joe Biden and John Kerry negotiated sensitive and high-stakes deals with foreign governments, Rosemont entities secured a series of exclusive deals often with those same foreign governments.
The Bank of China is an enormously powerful financial institution. But the Bank of China is very different from the Bank of America. The Bank of China is government-owned, which means that its role as a bank blurs into its role as a tool of the government. The Bank of China provides capital for “China’s economic statecraft,”
The partnership between American princelings and the Chinese government was just a beginning. The actual investment deals that this partnership made were even more problematic. Many of them would have serious national security implications for the United States.
In 2015, BHR joined forces with the automotive subsidiary of the Chinese state-owned military aviation contractor Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC) to buy American “dual-use” parts manufacturer Henniges.
AVIC is a major military contractor in China. It operates “under the direct control of the State Council” and produces a wide array of fighter and bomber aircraft, transports, and drones — primarily designed to compete with the United States.
The company also has a long history of stealing Western technology and applying it to military systems. The year before BHR joined with AVIC, the Wall Street Journal reported that the aviation company had stolen technologies related to the US F-35 stealth fighter and incorporated them in their own stealth fighter, the J-31.
AVIC has also been accused of stealing US drone systems and using them to produce their own.
In September 2015, when AVIC bought 51 percent of American precision-parts manufacturer Henniges, the other 49 percent was purchased by the Biden-and-Kerry-linked BHR.
Very funny, keep them coming!
When I clicked the link to listen I got the message “video no longer available’. A little UTube censorship of “fake news”?
Me too. This seems to work, though:
I don’t think its really a political partisan song, just a very witty observation about how the press lost it to suit a particular viewpoint.
Some of the other songs are fabulous, I certainly subscribed!
“The 12 Months of Trumps Mess” is bloody hilarious!
When Trump visits the Queen in June, he should ask for an apology for an attempted coup.
No doubt Her Majesty is not amused!
His tweet this week about a coup by UK intelligence and on Fox yesterday are pretty clear.
As Larry Johnson said, sunlight has the perpetrators scurrying for cover.
The U.S. Army OId Guard Fife and Drum Corps
“Collusion” is finished, but sunlight on the coup perps has them scurrying for cover. Trump’s tweet this week was heard around the world.
The song is funny, but this group is definitely on the left side of the line. If you look at their song “Hey Dude” and freeze frame on the page of candidates they supported in 2018, they are liberal progressives. I think they were smart enough to realize the collusion narrative had no legs to begin with, but they are still progressives and side with the warmists per their song “Lie, lie, lie”.
In a flash last night it came to me. We should demand total transparency of all politicians. All politicians, regardless of party affiliation – or non-affiliation for that matter, must be surveilled 24/7 by camera, voice recorder, and GPS. We demand total transparency from our government!
I suspect the number of incumbents for office will drop substantially. Need I? /sarc
LOL! Great short video of former Attorney General Michael Mukasey just killing the baby brother of the Governor of NY on CNN as that “journalist” tries to mislead people about the Muller report.
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2019/04/24/misleading-lot-people-mukasey-calls-out-cuomos-russia
I wish all conservatives would play hardball like that with those clowns.
It would be interesting to know what Ronald Reagan and G.H.W. Bush would have thought if someone told them circa 1990 that: 1) a future Russian dictator was going to order hacking of computers to sway a U.S. election in favor of a Republican candidate, 2) the Republican candidate’s son and senior campaign people were going to meet with Russians to talk about the computer hacking, and 3) the Republican candidate would become president and direct his son to lie about meeting with the Russians.
Would they have thought a song that made fun of the whole episode was funny? Would they have thought that Republicans should not be concerned with a dictatorial Russian government committing illegal acts to sway an election (as long as the swaying was in favor of a Republican, of course)?
So you want to know what a couple of dead presidents would have thought about some lies that you would have told them? Who cares what *anyone* thinks of your lies. There was no collusion, saint Mueller said so, get over it already.
There is something very common between the global warming fraud and the Mueller inquisition . Mass MSM deciding what agenda to promote and got it wrong . . CNN , MSNBC , NY Times, La Times , Guardian etc are an absolute disgrace .
What was the day journalism died ?
Mueller stacked his team with Democrat donors and Trump haters and other than fleecing tax payers for at least $30 million they came up with crimes unrelated to Trump .
Bet Mueller made more out of this witch hunt than Comey the leaker did from his self promotion book .
A great parody. Too bad the artist didn’t record a “B-Side” covering Volume II of Mueller’s report, perhaps entitled “The Day Obstruction Rose”. To quote Mueller’s report:
First, a traditional prosecution or declination decision entails a binary determination to initiate or decline a prosecution, but we determined NOT to make a traditional prosecutorial judgment. The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) has issued an opinion finding that “the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting President would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the
executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions” in violation of “the
constitutional separation of powers.” Given the role of the Special Counsel as an attorney in the
Department of Justice and the framework of the Special Counsel regulations, this Office accepted OLC’s legal conclusion for the purpose of exercising prosecutorial jurisdiction.
Second, while the OLC opinion concludes that a sitting President may not be prosecuted, it recognizes that a criminal investigation during the President’s term is permissible. The OLC
opinion also recognizes that a President does not have immunity after he leaves office.
Third, we considered whether to evaluate the conduct we investigated under the Justice Manual standards governing prosecution and declination decisions, but we determined NOT to apply an approach that could potentially result in a judgment that the President committed crimes… FAIRNESS concerns counseled against potentially reaching that judgment when no charges can be brought. The ordinary means for an individual to respond to an accusation is through a speedy and public trial, with all the procedural protections that surround a criminal case. An individual who believes he was wrongly accused can use that process to seek to clear his name. In contrast , a prosecutor’s judgment that crimes were committed, but that no charges will be brought, affords no such adversarial opportunity for public name-clearing before an impartial adjudicator.
“Fourth, if we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, however, we are unable to reach that judgment. The evidence we obtained about the President’s actions and intent presents difficult issues that prevent us from conclusively determining that no criminal conduct occurred. Accordingly, while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
The President’s personal counsel has written to this Office to advance statutory and constitutional defenses to the potential application of the obstruction-of-justice statutes to the President’s conduct. As a statutory matter , the President’s counsel has argued that a core obstruction-of-justice statute, does not cover the President’s actions. As a constitutional matter, the President’s counsel argued that the President cannot obstruct justice by exercising his constitutional authority to close Department of Justice investigations or terminate the FBI Director. Under that view, any statute that restricts the President ‘s exercise of those powers would impermissibly intrude on the President’s constitutional role. The President’s counsel has conceded that the President may be subject to criminal laws that do not directly involve exercises of his Article JI authority, such as laws prohibiting bribing witnesses or suborning perjury. But counsel has made a categorical argument that “the President’s exercise of his constitutional authority here to terminate an FBI Director and to close investigations cannot constitutionally constitute obstruction of justice.”
In analyzing counsel’s statutory arguments, we concluded that the President’s proposed interpretation of Section 1512(c)(2) is contrary to the litigating position of the Department of Justice and is not supported by principles of statutory construction.
As for the constitutional arguments, we recognized that the Department of Justice and the courts have not definitively resolved these constitutional issues. We therefore analyzed the President’s position through the framework of Supreme Court precedent addressing the separation of powers. Under that framework, we concluded, Article II of the Constitution does not categorically and permanently immunize the President from potential liability for the conduct that we investigated. Rather, our analysis led us to conclude that the OBSTRUCTION-OF-JUSTICE STATUTES CAN VALIDLY PROHIBIT A PRESIDENT’S CORRUPT EFFORTS TO USE HIS OFFICIAL POWERS TO CURTAIL, END, OR INTERFERE WITH AN INVESTIGATION.
P 157: But proof of such a crime is not an element of an obstruction offense. See United States v. Greer, 872 F.3d 790, 798 (6th Cir . 2017) (stating , in applying the obstruction sentencing guideline, that “obstruction of a criminal investigation is punishable even if the prosecution is ultimately unsuccessful or even if the investigation ultimately reveals no underlying crime”).
Many of the President’s acts directed at witnesses, including discouragement of cooperation with the government and suggestions of possible future pardons , occurred in public view. While it may be more difficult to establish that public-facing acts were motivated by a corrupt intent, the President’s power to influence actions, persons, and events is enhanced by his unique ability to attract attention through use of mass communications . And no principle of law excludes public acts from the scope of obstruction statutes. If the likely effect of the acts is to intimidate witnesses or alter their testimony, the justice system’s integrity is equally threatened.
The report discusses 11 potential cases of obstruction of justice. AG Barr and dAG Rosenstein decided that Mueller’s evidence wasn’t worthy of prosecution, but that hardly matters since an Office of Legal Counsel ruling prevented all three of them from recommending prosecution. Mr. Barr was chosen to be AG because he had already submitted a written opinion to the DoJ contradicting Mueller’s conclusion about whether a President could have corrupt intent to inappropriately influence and investigation while carrying out his Article II powers. In the end, that is a decision that would likely be made by the Supreme Court or the Senate, depending on whether the defendant is citizen Trump or President Trump – assuming either trial is held.