8.11.2009

PAC Up Some Troubles, Then Just Smile, Smile, Smile...


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oft money, soft money your power is great;
your ability to cloud facts can ruin any debate.

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ne PAC, two PAC say whatever you like;
before long network flunkies will repeat it into their mike.

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o one will track back to the black well from which the untruth sprung,
they'll be too busy interviewing your slick pundit with lies on his tongue.

I
t's not exactly lying, well I guess that it is;
But don't blame us, for that's show biz!

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ebsites, emails and snail mail can deliver your bile,
your messages calculated to make the public, your opponents, to revile.

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hey spend their time answering the foul vitriol you produce;
giving you time the next talking points to deduce.

Matters not in the slightest whether they are right or are wrong;
Only matters if an irate public joins in with your song.

J
ust call Limbaugh and beg him to add in his brass,
though his services could be duplicated far cheaper by a hand up a mannequin's ----

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he public feigns ire that such tactics are wrought;
while hiding that copy of the Enquirer they have just bought.

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ot solutions, but stories is all that matters,
And wasted energy spent leaves our nation in tatters.

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medalled hero, by a fat coward and liar, can be denounced;
So that by one with no record, the hero, in an election can be trounced.

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all yourselves friends of liberty and champions of truth;
Then toast your success in back rooms sipping gin and vermouth.

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o bad you're not as good at solutions as you are at spewing hate;
won elections not solved problems is how your efforts we will rate.

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end sheep to town meetings, democracy to disrupt;
Then look for new soldiers whose views you can corrupt.

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ay nonsense enough times and common wisdom does it become,
proving time and again that yes the public really is just that dumb.

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oft money, soft money from the wealthy and powerful do you flow;
and we eat it up as they add to our doubts and make them all grow.

T
he rich get far richer while the rest fall further behind;
but those ill got riches lead to more pronouncements even further refined.

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oft money, soft money, like a magician's deft hand do you distract our attention,
from problems real and too numerous to even bother to mention.

I
t may be true that indeed nothing need be feared but fear itself,
but when fear is bought and sold in such volumes hard to remember much else...

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