Song for Dan Rather

RightWingBob.com ^ | 09/21/2004 | Right Wing Bob

[Merciful_Friend]

Daily Ramblings:

The Circus Is In Town ... 09/21/2004

No choice but to reprise this for Dan Rather. Sing it loud and try not to choke up:

Every moment of existence seems like some dirty trick
Happiness can come suddenly and leave just as quick
Any minute of the day the bubble could burst
Try to make things better for someone, sometimes,
You just end up making it a thousand times worse

This whole story and its ever-increasing list of names is beginning to resemble a surrealistic Dylan story song. We've got Bill Burkett, Lucy Ramirez, George Conn (con?! - and he is said to be the innocent party!), Ben Barnes, Joe Lockhart, Max Cleland ... we've got Texas, we've got surreptitious meetings at livestock shows, we've got:

In the parking lot outside, he said, he burned the ones he had been given and the envelope they were in.

Then,

... he drove to a location he would not specify, about 100 miles from his ranch, to put them "in cold storage."

The correct temperature for photocopies of forgeries?

He passes the documents to Mapes and Smith at "a drive-in restaurant near Baird."

I'm alternately hearing Brownsville Girl, Hurricane, and Tweeter & The Monkey Man. You'll have to listen for the echoes yourself - I have to earn some bread and butter today. However, the final word comes from a place we all know only too well.

All these people that you mention
Yes, I know them, they're quite lame
I had to rearrange their faces
And give them all another name
Right now I can't read too good
Don't send me no more letters no
Not unless you mail them
From Desolation Row

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