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Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts) Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:00 PM Mar 2012

I think the Bee Gees wrote Andrew Breitbart's obit a long time ago...

I started a joke
which started the whole world crying
But I didn't see
that the joke was on me, oh no

I started to cry
which started the whole world laughing
Oh if I'd only seen
that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
hurting my head
from things that I'd said

Till I finally died
which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
that the joke was on me

I looked at the skies
running my hands over my eyes
And I fell out of bed
hurting my head
from things that I'd said

Till I finally died
which started the whole world living
Oh if I'd only seen
that the joke was on me

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I think the Bee Gees wrote Andrew Breitbart's obit a long time ago... (Original Post) Junkdrawer Mar 2012 OP

Fitting tribute amuse bouche Mar 2012 #1

History is not kind to dirty tricksters.... Junkdrawer Mar 2012 #9

Apt. sinkingfeeling Mar 2012 #2

Immediately popped into my head when I heard.... Junkdrawer Mar 2012 #5

And the flip side of this obituary? Zambero Mar 2012 #3

I think "joke" here is more along the lines of Donald Segretti's (Watergate) pranks... Junkdrawer Mar 2012 #8

Well done! n/t arthritisR_US Mar 2012 #4

If only we could be saying that about KKKarl Rove and all members of the bush mafia loudsue Mar 2012 #6

This message was self-deleted by its author loudsue Mar 2012 #7

amuse bouche

(3,657 posts)

1. Fitting tribute

Reply to Junkdrawer (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:03 PM

Mar 2012

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)

9. History is not kind to dirty tricksters....

Reply to amuse bouche (Reply #1)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 05:22 PM

Mar 2012

see also:

Richard Nixon
Donald Segretti

sinkingfeeling

(51,448 posts)

2. Apt.

Reply to Junkdrawer (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:07 PM

Mar 2012

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)

5. Immediately popped into my head when I heard....

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #2)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:33 PM

Mar 2012

When I looked up the lyrics, I thought it was too apt to not post.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)

3. And the flip side of this obituary?

Reply to Junkdrawer (Original post)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 01:09 PM

Mar 2012

Less joke, more reality:

It's just your jive talkin'. You're telling me lies.
Jive talkin', you wear a disguise.
Jive talkin', so misunderstood.
Jive talkin', you’re really no good.

Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts)

8. I think "joke" here is more along the lines of Donald Segretti's (Watergate) pranks...

Reply to Zambero (Reply #3)

Thu Mar 1, 2012, 02:24 PM

Mar 2012

...

'Enlist people, be imaginative' One thing he stressed was asking lawyers because he didn't want to do anything illegal. It wasn't represented as a strictly strong-arm operation. He stressed what fun we could have. As an example, he gave this situation:

"'When a rally is scheduled at 7 p.m. at a local coliseum by a particular candidate, you call up and represent to the manager that you're the field manager for this candidate and you have some information that some rowdies, some hippies or what-have-you are going to cause trouble. So you ask him to move the rally up to 9 o'clock -- thereby insuring that the place would be padlocked when the candidate showed up at 7.'"

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/articles/101072-1.htm