{"id":118,"date":"2007-06-07T01:25:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T05:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/06\/07\/gop-piety-song-parody-sing-to-billy-joels-honesty\/"},"modified":"2012-03-24T16:08:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T20:08:27","slug":"gop-piety-song-parody-sing-to-billy-joels-honesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2007\/06\/07\/gop-piety-song-parody-sing-to-billy-joels-honesty\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Piety Song Parody (Sing to Billy Joel’s Honesty)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks so much to Dick Polman, whose politics of selective piety post<\/em><\/a>\u00a0 inspired this song parody. You can sing it\u00a0to Billy Joel’s Honesty<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

GOP Piety Song Parody (Sing to Billy Joel’s Honesty)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

If you search for hypocrites,\u00a0
\nThey aren’t hard to find.
\nThe Republicans just give and give.
\nThey brag about their piousness,
\nBut to justice they are blind.
\nConsistency just ain’t the way they live.<\/p>\n

Piety is such a misused word.
\nGOPers preach on cue.
\nPiety — their fakery’s absurd.
\nSee through them and turn red to blue.<\/p>\n

They can always find reasons
\nTo use a “faith” disguise,
\nAs they wear religion on their sleeve.
\nBut I don’t want some petty man
\nTo tell us\u00a0pious lies.
\nAll I want is someone to believe.<\/p>\n

Piety is such a misused word.
\nGOPers pray on cue.
\nPiety — their zealotry’s absurd.
\nSee through them and turn red to blue.<\/p>\n

We must find a leader
\nWho this war will end,
\nWho will boost security,
\nThe Bill of Rights defend.
\nPieties don’t comfort me,
\nNor GOP refrains.
\nSay no.
\nSay no.<\/p>\n

They won’t keep our country free.
\nThey’re too unconcerned.
\nThey don’t care that human rights are gone.
\nI despise fake piety,
\nSo to the Dems I must turn,
\nCause they’re the ones that we depend on.<\/p>\n

Piety is such a misused word.
\nGOPers preach on cue.
\nPiety — their fakery’s absurd.
\nSee through them and turn red to blue. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks so much to Dick Polman, whose politics of selective piety post\u00a0 inspired this song parody. You can sing it\u00a0to Billy Joel’s Honesty. GOP Piety Song Parody (Sing to Billy Joel’s Honesty) By Madeleine Begun Kane If you search for hypocrites,\u00a0 They aren’t hard to find. The Republicans just give and give. They brag about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,21,20,3,9,4,17],"tags":[1895,1890,756,1892,1891,1896,1887,1888,1886,1889,1894,1893,402],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-election-satire","category-gop-humor","category-politics","category-republicans","category-song-parodies","category-white-house","tag-bill-of-rights","tag-billy-joel","tag-dick-polman","tag-gop-hypocrisy","tag-honesty-lyrics","tag-human-rights","tag-piety-humor","tag-pious-politicians","tag-religion-in-politics","tag-religious-hypocrisy","tag-religious-zealotry","tag-republican-hypocrites","tag-song-parody"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6822,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/6822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}