The Revolution Will Be Televised

I wrote this a while ago out of respect. The person who inspired it recently passed away so I'm publishing it in the hopes it does the original justice.

THE REVOLUTION WILL BE TELEVISED

Stay home brother, park yourself in your recliner with remote in hand.
Press power, kick back, and fix your face to the screen.

Lose yourself to the hype on FOX and skip past the propaganda on C-SPAN and PBS

TiVo your favorite political pundit talking head and tune in

because The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution will be brought to you by Apple and PC's

In 4 parts with commercial interruptions

by Pfizer, AIG, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, and new reality shows.

The Revolution will come wrapped in murals of Obama donning a Hitler mustache

to the tune of a bugle blown by Rupert Murdock and a charge led by Dick Cheney,

Bill O'Reilly, and Karl Rove to eat pork barrel policies

confiscated from John Boehner and Eric Cantor's offices on The Hill.

The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution is being brought to you by Premiere Radio

starring Rush Limbaugh and Glen Beck

quoting Mccarthy in between ads for a Health Insurance company

that killed your Mother with 2 words or an interest rate hike

that put the bank in the black and you in the red.

The Revolution will not lengthen your life.

The Revolution will not be regulated by an industry or government.

The Revolution will not make you look or feel 5 pounds lighter

because you will plant your roots on the sofa and continue eating the worry

that you've being force fed about the future of your country and its economy.

The Revolution will be televised, Brother.

There will be no pictures of you and Brangelina
cleaning what remains of New Orleans on a dead block.

Its former residents turned refugee now lie cold and forgotten

in Mother Nature's wake

after trying to carry a 60 inch flat screen to higher ground,

as the President flies over-head trying to explain how

government assistance "got lost in route" or didn't bother to show up.

NBC will devote all of its time to cover it for a week

only to sweep it under the rug for simple stories and popular trends

that have no point or shelf life to speak of in every district in all 50 states.

The Revolution will be televised.

Youtube the video clip of oscar grant and watch it replay

Youtube the video clip of oscar grant and watch it replay.

Watch them beat that female bartender within an inch of her life

only to get a slap on the wrist and a paid vacation.

See videos of tea party "liberationists" with poor grammar and misspelled signs

ill informed and funded by a corporate sponsor call their campaign grass roots.

FOX news will call your President a terrorist and themselves patriots

to make up in ratings what they lack in integrity and sponsorship

watch their co-workers call it a national trend without siting the source,

because The Revolution will be televised.

Real Housewives, Biggest Loser, The Apprentice, and Flavor of Love

will no longer be so damned relevant,

and women won't care if McDreamy got down with Izzie on Grey's Anatomy

because the public will be pre-occupied by Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly

stealing any hope one could have for a brighter day.

The Revolution will be televised.

Highlights will play on a 24/7 news cycle on the hour, every hour

with interludes of Brittany Spears showing her cooch as she gets out of a car

along with a slide show of Republicans holding a smoking barrel,

shrugging emotionless with a freshly painted palm.

The theme song won't be written by Alice Wine

but tragedy will be extorted by Alan Jackson and Toby Keith

with a false pretense of patriotism.

The Revolution will be televised.

The Revolution will be right back after this commercial break

full of promises by snakes in suits that exist in a never ending election year,

promising lower taxes, less government, capitalism,

a personal cradle made of gold to rock you to sleep,

and bucket of sunshine and happiness to help you rise every morning.

The revolution will go better with a Xanax and Jack Daniels.

The Revolution will get you strip searched and felt up at the airport with an audience.

The Revolution will keep the cruise control on.

The Revolution will be televised, will be televised, will be televised, will be televised and you can watch that re-run brother, if you miss it live.