NBC AIRS WH SPECIAL "SHOW BOATING": Van Jones to sing "Ol' Man River"

[Liz]

White House production of "Show Boating" will air on NBC.

THE COMPLETE CAST:

Rahm Emanuel dances to "Waitin' On The Levee for Healthcare."

Valerie Jarrett does her rendition of "Can't Help Lovin' that Bam of Mine." And will encore with "He's Just My Bam, an Ordinary Guy Who Became President."

The Obamas duet: " Only Make Believe We Love America."

Robert Gibbs does his Baghgad Bob impersonation.

White House Czars ensemble: "Song of the Volga Boatmen."

John Boehner sings: "After the Republicans Take Over."

[Charles Henrickson]

Plus, these two toe-tappers:

STAND BY YOUR VAN
Tune: "Stand By Your Man" Original

Sometimes it's hard to be Obama
Backin' all the czars at your command
You'll have commies
PR tsunamis
Wipin' out your castles in the sand

But if you love him you won't dump him
Even though he's messin' up your plan
And if they throw stones
Oh, don't let go Jones
'Cause after all he's still your Van

Stand by your Van
Give him your imprimatur
Don't be a wimp about it
When whites attack your brother

Stand by your Van
And show Glenn Beck you back him
Keep backin' Jones--oh, yes you can!
Stand by your Van!

ME AND MR. JONES
Tune: "Me and Mrs. Jones" Original

Me and Mr. Jones
I took a green commie on
They all say that it's wrong
But I'm much too strong
To let him go now

We meet every day at the bust of Che
6:30, I know, I know he'll be there
Raising fists, making all kinds of lists
While we read a page of Mao Zedong

Me and Mr.--Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones
I took a green commie on
They all say that it's wrong
But I'm much too strong
To let him go now

I gotta be extra careful
That he won't give our secrets away
'Cause he won't postpone revolution
But me, I need till May

Me and Mr.--Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones
They want my green commie gone
They all say that it's wrong
Well, it won't be long
I'll let him go now

Well, it's time for me to relieve him
It hurts so much to pull the bus outside
Now I'll throw him under, and he'll resign
But tomorrow we'll tweet, the same plans, the same time

Me and Mr.--Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones, Mr. Jones
I took a green commie on
I gotta be extra careful
I can't afford to give our secrets away

I wanna meet and talk with Van
With the same plans, the same old Che, the same time
And we're gonna raise fists like we used to
We're gonna talk it over, talk it over

We know, they know, and you know and I know that it was wrong
But I'm hangin' strong
I gotta let 'em know now
That I kept a green commie on, a green commie on . . .

[Liz]

LOL-——great addition to the thread.

[Charles Henrickson]

The Obamas duet: " Only Make Believe We Love America."

Then there's this one, on the projected national debt:

MAKE BELIEVE ("$9 TRILLION")
Tune: "Make Believe"

Only make believe "$9 trillion"
Only make believe it won't be more
We can hope, we can cope by pretending
Debt won't rise, debt won't grow, debt won't soar

Make believe the gap is shrinking
By a trillion bucks, or two or three
Maybe this is a change you'll believe in
But to tell the truth, not me!

[ETL]

The 1992 L.A./Rodney King Riots and the Revolutionary Communist Party (Van Jones, Maxine Waters)
multiple sources

Posted on Saturday, September 05, 2009 9:06:27 AM ET by ETL

"Jones was arrested during the L.A. riots and spent a short time in jail. "I met all these young radical people of color," he recalls, 'I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, "This is what I need to be a part of." I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.'..."

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2332798/posts

[Liz]

Rev Wright will do a reading of: “Don’t know Why There’s no Sun Up In The Sky......Stormy Weather for Bama.”

[NautiNurse]

Masterpiece Theater!

[Boardwalk]

Very good! For some reason when I hear the name Van Jones I think of the song Mr. Bojangles....dance.

[ETL]

And Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn will do "Subterranean Homesick Blues"...

"Those who later formed the Weatherman organization produced a paper at the Students for a Democratic Society Convention in Chicago in June of 1969. With a nod to Bob Dylan, the sponsors titled their epistle: 'You Don’t Need A Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Is Blowing.'"
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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"Dubbing itself the Weathermen, this new organization took its name from a line in Bob Dylan’s 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'—'you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows'—and within months had set off bombs at the National Guard headquarters and set in motion plans to bomb targets across the country"
http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/weatherunderground/film.html
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"Johnny's in the basement
Mixing up the medicine
I'm on the pavement
Thinking about the government"

"Maggie comes fleet foot
Face full of black soot
Talkin' that the heat put
Plants in the bed but
The phone's tapped anyway
Maggie says that many say
They must bust in early May"

...

Look out kid
Don't matter what you did
Walk on your tip toes
Don't try "No Doz"
Better stay away from those
That carry around a fire hose

Keep a clean nose
Watch the plain clothes

You don't need a weather man
To know which way the wind blows"

http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/subterranean-homesick-blues

[Sudetenland]

Very clever...+10 :)

[Liz]

Maxine Waters will perform: “ Happiness is Just A Thing Called The Public Option.”

[ETL]

For some reason when I hear the name Van Jones I think of the song Mr. Bojangles....dance.

I think of Lennon's "Revolution"...

The Lost John Lennon Interview
"Power to the People"

TA (interviewer): In a way you were even thinking about politics when you seemed to be knocking revolution?

JL (Lennon): Ah, sure, 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'. The original version which ends up on the LP said 'count me in' too; I put in both because I wasn't sure. There was a third version that was just abstract, musique concrete, kind of loops and that, people screaming. I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution--but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.

On the version released as a single I said 'when you talk about destruction you can count me out'. I didn't want to get killed. I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off. I just thought it was unsubtle, you know. I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it. That was how I felt--I was really asking a question. As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game.

http://beatlesnumber9.com/lostlennon.html

[Liz]

LOL-——beautiful.

[Notasoccermom]

IS THERE ROOM FOR OBAMA MAN CAN? (to the tune of the Candy Man Can )

Who can fix the mortgage? General Motors too? A bailout check for me, And a bailout check for you.

Obama Man…Yes, Obama Man Can. Obama Man can, ’cause he mixes it with hope and makes the world taste good.

Who can give ya health care? Who can save the poor? Who can pick the teams That are in the final four?

Obama Man…Yes, Obama Man Can. Obama Man can, ’cause he mixes it with hope and makes the world feel good.

Obama Man takes problems, and he makes ‘em…he makes ‘em…he turns ‘em into cream and peaches, sugar-coated, smooth-tongued speeches. (I hope he practice’ what he preaches!)

Who can take tomorrow, Spend it all today? Who can take your income And tax it all away?

Obama Man…(Everybody!) Yes, Obama Man Can. Obama Man can, ’cause he mixes it with hope and makes the world taste good.

Yes, Obama Man takes Every speech he makes And gives it a whole bunch of thinkin’, When Michelle Obama’s winkin’. (Then he runs it by Abe Lincoln!)

Who can buy an iPod, Give it to the Queen? Who can take economy And turn it into green?

Obama Man…Yes, Obama Man Can. Obama Man…Obama, man…Obama Man…

[Charles Henrickson]

David Brooks sings . . .

A FINE BROMANCE
Tune: "A Fine Romance" Original
As sung by David Brooks to Barack Obama

A fine bromance, like no other
A fine bromance, my Brooks brother
Barack and Brooks--it's mutual admiration
Your rock-star looks are causin' a strange sensation
A fine bromance, though you're frazzled
A fine bromance, I'm bedazzled
I like to stare at the crease in your well-pressed pants
I've widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance

A fine bromance, we're pie-chartin'
You make bromance that's bi-partisan
You're cooler than the clams that are down in the seaweed
You cast a glance my way and I get all wee-weed
A fine bromance, you're my Marx guy
When we slow-dance, you make sparks fly
You make me have to cancel my "No we cant's"
You've got me in a trance
This is a fine bromance

A fine bromance, with no disses
A fine bromance, Barack, this is
The "right" may be the box that a guy like I'm in
But I'm the kind that writes for the New York Times in
A fine bromance, my dear comrade
A fine bromance, like you and Rahm had
I feel a tingle running now up my pants
I've widened up my stance
This is a fine bromance

[Just mythoughts]

Awesome.... and Bama as ‘king’.

Since Bama is now a recognized Kennedy, and it is after all old Teddy's legacy of socializing the health care economy we can't leave him out.

So as the character in Eddie Murphy's movie Coming to America, the African king, shows up in Queens, steps out of his royal car dressed in his royal digs sporting a lion skin, head and all, make sure old Teddy is lionized.

[Liz]

LOL. A definite Top Ten selection.

[Liz]

David Brooks sings: Holy cow, one of the neocons actually has a career?

Everybody thought the pukeneos kept busy giving blowjobs to Ohaha, Sucking up to Ohaha meant his sex life was really improving-—the pukes lined up to kneel under the Oval Office desk. Rahm even installed a Take-A-Number machine to control the neo traffic under the desk.

Here's hoping Ohaha had the stamina for all the lewinskys coming his way (/snic).

BTW, there was a reward out for anyone who determined what the pukeneos do for a living-----with a bonus if you found out who signs their paychecks.

No one had yet figured out if Billy Krystal, Perle, Frum, Brooks, and the pukeneo cronies had any visible means of support......other than infiltrating the US government, putting out agit-prop, incessantly pontificating on foreign policy issues, squatting in the Repub Party, and kicking we so/cons to the curb.

Oh wait a sec---Dickster Perle IS going into the oil business in Iraq----nice that US tax dollars and the blood of young Americans made the region safe for Perle's business ambitions, wasn't it?

[NautiNurse]

Can't Help Lovin' That Van

Oh listen sister
I love my Mister Van
And I can't tell you
Why there is no reason
Why I should love that Van
It must be something
We radicals have planned

A 9-11 Truther
He blames the whites
A champion of minority rights
Can't help lovin' that Van of mine

Tell me he's commie
Liberty is his foe
Tell me I'm crazy
Maybe I know
Can't help lovin' that Van of mine

The path he paves
Reparations for slaves
Redistribution of wealth
Free Mumia and free health
Taking control via stealth

He can come home
As late as can be
The White House without him
Ain't no home to me
Can't help lovin' that Van of mine
Can't help lovin' that Van of mine.

[Young Werther]

Paul Robeson

A true American Legend, albeit a espoused Communist.

The one bright spot in his life was his choice of Colleges. He was born in Princeton NJ but enrolled at Rutgers "On the Banks of the Old Raritan!"

Ole Man River