The Third Estate Sunday Review focuses on politics and culture. We're an online magazine. We don't play nice and we don't kiss butt. In the words of Tuesday Weld: "I do not ever want to be a huge star. Do you think I want a success? I refused "Bonnie and Clyde" because I was nursing at the time but also because deep down I knew that it was going to be a huge success. The same was true of "Bob and Carol and Fred and Sue" or whatever it was called. It reeked of success."
Sunday, May 20, 2012
The Incredible Shrinking Barack
BULLY BOY PRESS & CEDRIC'S BIG MIX -- THE KOOL-AID TABLE
THE ECONOMY IS BITTER
BARRY O HAS LOST HIS GLITTER
THE ELECTORATE GROWS COLDER
HIS EXCUSES JUST GET OLDER
AND ALL BECAUSE OF THE STATE THAT GOT AWAY
NO LONGER STANDING TALL
SEE IT WRITTEN ON THE WALL
THE CHANGE HE PROMISED HAS ALL
GONE ASTRAY.
THE BARRY WHO WON YOU
HAS GONE OFF AND UNDONE YOU
HISTORIC BEGINNING
HAS SEEN THE FINAL INNING
WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED
IT'S ALL A CON GAME
NO MORE CAN HE PULL THE WOOL
YOU'VE BEEN PLAYED FOR A FOOL
AND NEVER WILL THE SHEEP BE HERDED
AGAIN.
GOOD RIDDANCE, GOOD-BYE!
EVERY TRICK OF HIS WE'RE ON TO
EVEN THE FOOLS OF ALL FOOLS
KNOW WHERE HE'S LED TO
THE ECONOMY GETS ROUGHER
THE MARKET LONELIER AND TOUGHER
THE HOPE'S ALL BURNED OUT
IN NOVEMBER HE MAY BE TURNED OUT
THERE'S JUST NO FOOLING THE LIVE-LONG NIGHT AND DAY!
EVER SINCE THE START OF TIME
TRICKSTERS HAVE PLIED THEIR CRIME
BUT THE PEOPLE WISE UP IN TIME
STARTING WITH
THE STATE THAT GOT AWAY
THE STATE THAT GOT WAY
PAID FOR AND APPROVED BY THE RE-ELECT BARACK OBAMA CAMPAIGN.
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Illustration is Isaiah's The World Today Just Nuts "Barack's Shrinking Stature" and Cedric's "Sing it, Barry!" and Wally's "THIS JUST IN! BARRY O'S 2012 THEME SONG!" offers a twist on Harold Arlen and Ira Gershwin's "The Man That Got Away."