{"id":183,"date":"2012-09-18T18:53:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T18:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lawandsoftware.com\/blog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2020-12-03T02:22:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T02:22:57","slug":"dead-presidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawandsoftware.com\/blog\/dead-presidents\/","title":{"rendered":"Dead Presidents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Randy Newman’s “satirical” new song “I’m Dreaming<\/a>” puts race front and center in the upcoming election. He almost makes an empathic argument. He makes the ironic case for the cracker voter, and he does it so well<\/a> that the target of his derision will likely not even notice, and will be humming the tune on his way to the ballot box.<\/p>\n

Go watch and listen. And then come back to set the record straight on all those dead presidents, with the Pussy Riot Gangnam Style Player<\/a> virtual mashup of the Newman video and a historical tour-de-force sung by Jonathon Coulton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I love synchronicity. How come Coulton sings about Taft when Newman does too? How come the line “Hoover screwed the pooch in the great Depression” fits so well? Also Andrew Johnson+Richard Nixon and impeachment, Hayes and Reconstruction, Roosevelt and the Nazis, Garfield’s eclipse\/assassination…<\/p>\n


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