Down With Dissidents *
Sung to the Cole Porter tune
"Just One Of Those Things"

PBS won't get my dough.
Just thought you ought to know,
Not while it's run by Ken So-and-so,
Making it a Bush show.

Now that it's run by the right
Kiss my contributions goodnight.
Novak can't dance although he does sing –
Who needs another Bush thing?

We had hoped Murdoch's bit was the end of it
   when he took over The Post,
But with MacNeil & Lehrer no longer there,
   how soon till The Times becomes toast?

So good-bye, freedom, for when
Bush's yahoos censor the pen,
It will have been nice
But it was just one of those things.

* The New York Times - 5/4/05
Editorial - "Politicizing Public Broadcasting"

Music & Original Lyric by Cole Porter
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
5/6/05

To 'Himself - Autocrat'