{"id":4431,"date":"2011-02-06T02:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T06:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=4431"},"modified":"2011-02-06T02:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T06:31:48","slug":"ronald-reagan-centennial-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2011\/02\/06\/ronald-reagan-centennial-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate Ronald Reagan’s Centennial With St. Reagan’s Song Parody"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ronald Reagan-worship is even crazier than usual this week. Why? Because it’s the one-hundredth anniversary of Reagan’s birthday. Of course, “Reagan was not the man conservatives claim he was.”<\/a> Not even close.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I was in the middle of reading about all the centennial hoopla, when I suddenly remembered St. Reagan’s Song — a song parody I wrote back in 2003 when CBS caved in to right-wing bullying over a Reagan miniseries.<\/a> This seems like a good time to re-post my parody lyrics, which you can sing to Just You Wait<\/em>” from My Fair Lady,<\/em> by Lerner & Lowe:<\/p>\n

St. Reagan’s Song
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

He’s a saint, Ronald Reagan, he’s a saint!
\nYou’ll be sorry if you dare to say, he ain’t.
\nA fine bloke who’s kind and cunning,
\nBeat the Russians, great with money.
\nHe’s a saint, Ronald Reagan, he’s a saint!<\/p>\n

Reagan’s great, scream the wingnuts. Stop that flick!
\nDon’t you dare disparage Reagan. They’ll be ticked!
\nThey’ll go off and say we’re haters,
\nThreaten boycotts, claim we’re traitors.
\nHe’s a saint, Ronald Reagan, he’s a saint!<\/p>\n

Praise Ronald Reagan!
\nHow the right-wing loves to rewrite history.
\nPraise Ronald Reagan!
\nFor it’s truth be damned. Old Ron ruled perfectly.<\/p>\n

Don’t dare tell he sometimes frowned.
\nThey’ll get stressed and go to town.
\nHow they crow, Ronald Reagan.
\nHate his foes, Ronald Reagan.
\nRon’s
\nA
\nSaint!<\/p>\n

They claim that he’s blameless.
\nWhat a whopper. What crock.
\nGo to such lengths to hype him.
\nMight well call him Saint Ron.<\/p>\n

They swear that Ron Reagan’s great.
\nThey’ll brook not a doubt.
\nAnd want all our nation his praises to shout.<\/p>\n

They freak if a liberal dares say,
\nHe’s not saintly or princely. No way!<\/p>\n

They want networks to celebrate the glory of Ron.
\nIf they don’t say he’s fabulous, then ads will be gone.
\nThanks CBS for your cowardly cave.
\nCause all I want is networks to be brave.<\/p>\n

Find me a network that’s bold.
\nNow they run scared and they fold.<\/p>\n

Wingnuts tell you Ronald Reagan’s ten feet tall.
\nAnd that Reagan is the greatest Prez of all.
\nWe must lift his image higher.<\/p>\n

Reagan’s
\nMost
\nAdmired!<\/p>\n

Don’t say nope, Ronald Reagan.
\nAsk the Pope, Ronald Reagan.
\nRon’s
\nA
\nSaint!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ronald Reagan-worship is even crazier than usual this week. Why? Because it’s the one-hundredth anniversary of Reagan’s birthday. Of course, “Reagan was not the man conservatives claim he was.” Not even close. Anyway, I was in the middle of reading about all the centennial hoopla, when I suddenly remembered St. Reagan’s Song — a song […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,6,3,9,137,4],"tags":[1486,859,2804,2750],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431"}],"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=4431"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4447,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4431\/revisions\/4447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}