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Radio Shills

from Jacquerie by Edward Morneau

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Nothing chills me more than right wing talk radio. Its bloviating portfolio of aural propaganda, innuendo, fear mongering and scapegoating is its own unique contemporary text of fascism. Relegating civility and discourse to the gutters of trashcan hysteria, the purveyors of one-way radio are the worst kinds of patriots, practicing corporate PR for the sake of the unregulated market place of greed, where ideas have no place and healthy political skepticism has been replaced by journalistic nihilism. Surely, Thomas Jefferson himself, if he had the misfortune of hearing these nitwits, would have thought twice about conferring the elegance of free speech upon such simpletons. Laughable in the extreme, except that theirs is not a satire that instructs or ridicules political missteps into some kind of viable truth; they bore us with contempt and a punch list of invectives that only serve their corporate masters who are deathly afraid of a truly free marketplace and non-monopolized media.

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Radio Shills

I’m sick of all this radio, these personalities
Who run down any citizen with whom they disagree
This crap can’t pass for dialogue, it’s past insanity

We’d be better off if they’d shut their mouths
And crawled back to the sea.

It breaks my heart to pieces when they tear into the pain
Of struggling people who follow rules and try to play by the game
While the rich get richer everyday and have the balls to blame
The weather on the little guy whenever it starts to rain.

I thought this was a melting pot, I thought it was a dream
We’d add up all our differences and somehow we’d redeem
The sins of any ancestor who made the weaker scream
But they still get flogged by radio, and the righteous—they blaspheme.

Turn them off,
Radio Shills

Turn them off,
Radio Kills

They say they have the right to speak, it’s no privilege to incite
A riot in a reptile’s mind is like a parasite
That feeds upon the good will of those who get it right
And free speech doesn’t mean you’re free to say that black is white.

They’re not about any freedom or any ideology.
Locked in battle in a whoredown, they’re pimps for the FCC
The bottom line is gutless power and the stuff they get for free
From a government that takes the highest bid and sells our liberty.

Turn them off,
Radio Shills

Turn them off,
Radio Kills

My head is hurtin’, my mind is numb as I turn the stupid dial
If Goebbels were alive today he’d break into smile
Remember what they do to those who walk a crooked mile
You better not be different
‘cause it’s you they will anile.

Frank Zappa said it best,
there is no Great Society
When justice looks the other way when it applies to you and me
It ain’t about the media,
it’s about mass stupidity
So shut off ugly radio
and shut off ugly TV.

Turn them off,
Radio Shills

Turn them off,
Radio Kills

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from Jacquerie, track released January 1, 2010

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Edward Morneau Salem, Massachusetts

Edward Morneau has been a musician and songwriter most of his life. His focus on multiple genres and interest on sound collage experimentation makes his music hard to classify. His muses range from Beatles, Brian Wilson, Randy Newman, XTC, Kinks, Iris DeMent to Mahler, Shostakovich, Penderecki & Zappa. His background as an English & Film teacher gives humor and striking imagery to his songs. ... more

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