John,
John, John... if you have any aspiration
to be president of the United States, it's
probably wise not to sing:
"Bomb
bomb bomb, bomb bomb
Iran.".
Take it from a guy who gets weekly death
threats because people erroneously think
my song was pro-war. What on earth were
you thinking man? There was no doubt that
I threw my chances to be president
out the window when I made that
cartoon, and I have a feeling you
just did the same thing.
Well, as I've said
to several people over the past year - the lifespan of
"Let's Bomb Iran" is sure to extend somehow in this
political season. After the first wave of press last
year, I knew there was no way of escaping it with
the threat of Iran looming ever stronger. The
democrats getting the house and senate in November
will most likely keep anything from actually
happening until at least 2009 - but there will
be talk of it ad nauseum until then. I am surprised
however that a candidate would even dream of actually
singing that line in front of that crowd. He made a
fatal flaw - he played to the crowd and not to the
cameras. THe crowd was very pro-war and he did the
right thing... if HE WAS A COMEDIAN. He
played to the strengths of the crowd, read them
correctly, and made a joke. Unfortunately he's not
running for president of that particular town hall in
South Carolina. This will bite him in the
ass.
What will bite
ME in the ass however is that I lost
letsbombiran.com a few weeks back and foxnews already
linked to it in their story about Mccain. (sigh).
I never got the renew email and someone took the
name, took my pictures, lyrics and other videos
I did and put up some google ads to make some $$
off it. Smart move for that guy I guess, but I'm
stuck writing to every news outlet telling them to not
link to that site. I also am unnerved about
having someone control a domain that is seemingly run
by me. It fooled foxnews (not that that's saying a
whole lot, I know), and can be trouble down the
line. We'll see what happens.
And as was the
case last year, it looks like the end of April,
beginning of May is gonna be another "Competitive
Pacing"
period. If McCain gets a lot of heat about this,
you'll see "Let's Bomb Iran" a bunch on the news
networks - that interview with Olbermann may happen a
year late. Ya never know. Ideally I would have my
next cartoon ready to go, but there's just no way
I can pull that off now. Nor do I really
have the desire to do more animation. It's so
tedius... actually...
Here's what I'll
do - I'll put it out there. You guys have fun with
it:
I looked in my
daily planner and it told me what to
do,
We'll call it war
on terror then we'll pull a switcheroo
(WW3),
Holy War starts
with Iraq and then Jesus will come
back,
That's the way it
goes The Bible Told Me So...
The Bible Told
Me So, The Bible Told Me So,
We don't need to
prove a reason 'cause The Bible Told Me
So...
The U.N. had their
opinion but I really didn't
care,
I just
disregarded them 'cause Jesus wasn't
there,
They can't tell me
what to do, 'cause I believe in
you,
War's the way to
go, The Bible Told Me So...
The Bible Told
Me So, The Bible Told Me So,
Welcome to the
Apocalypse The Bible Told Me
So...
It's OK to torture
prisoners if they're loyal to
Allah,
Compared to
Judgement day that AbuGrhaib is
Shangri-La,
Human Rights can be
ignored, if Jesus is your lord,
That's all you need
to know, The Bible Told Me So...
The Bible Told
Me So, The Bible Told Me So,
You can torture
sinners The Bible Told Me
So...
It's OK to tap
your phone calls when you're workin' for the
Lord,
Who cares about a
warrant when you've got Jesus Christ
on-board?
So we'll snoop from
coast to coast 'cause I know the holy
ghost,
He's the head
honcho The Bible Told Me So...
The Bible Told
Me So, The Bible Told Me So,
It's OK to
listen in The Bible Told Me
So...
I believe
in Jesus and he tells me where to
go,
So everything
I do is right, The Bible Told Me
So...
Calling all
animators, calling all animators - there is a KILLER
cartoon sitting here. The music is done,
I actually have an outline completely done - just
need the manpower.
Heh.
So we'll see where
this takes me. Greg just let me know they played the
song on the Ed Schultz show. Hitting radio again! Ha.
This is a fun diversion.
