Since No One's Making Any Noise About the Pentagon Sock Puppets...

It has now been four days since the Times broke the story of the Pentagon sock puppets. The networks in question have all but refused to make any noise about this, so we did.

click the play button to listen to "Whose Face Can You Save?"

Whose Face Can You Save?

They're retired, still spitting in the feed
The doctored up analysis mapped out to mislead
Get creative with the facts
Cyrano de Bergeracs just offscreen
The floating Chyrons omit
The names of these morticians who wrote the script
Put some credits where they're due
Right on message right on cue, and quite full of it
What a humorless skit
Where the cue cards from the coroners read illegitimate

They've got their hands in the backs of the heads when they start talking
So falsely detached from the corpses in the coffins
They fire off the blanks and the pallbearers starting towards the grave
Whose face can you save?

The network knows it's no good for its health
To turn the camera around and focus on itself
A bit of fiction for me and you
Good thing they take those medals off before they do
They'll hang around until the story goes away
It'll fall right off the page just give it a couple of days
There's so much spin to sell all along the road to hell
So get on your way, and watch what you say
Won't someone tell me, is this ABC or the DPRK

They've got their hands in the backs of the heads when they start talking
So falsely detached from the corpses in the coffins
They fire off the blanks and the pallbearers starting towards the grave
Whose face can you save?

My cynicism's goalposts moved again
Profiteers and puppeteers will get theirs in the end

They've got their hands in the backs of the heads when they start talking
So falsely detached from the corpses in the coffins
They fire off the blanks and the pallbearers starting towards the grave
Whose face can you save?

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Comments

[elbzee]

....Profiteers and puppeteers.... absolutely beautiful choice of words. Needs to be the title of a book! Great Work!!!!!!!!!!

[deke33]

How about the sheer dishonesty of not reporting that these military geniuses were in the pocket of the Pentagon both literally and figuratively? Do they feel it is honest reporting by not reporting the particular views they are espousing also results in monetary profits for those who sold their soul to the Pentagon?

[NatashaSmall]

This is awesome! Really great song with amazing lyrics. Keep up the good work!

[HelftMoss]

Max, once again you have a made a great commentary into a great musical piece and while I had to "google" DPRK , this is yet another important piece.

When you're asking the question "Whose face can you save?" wouldn't they answer America's. Afterall, it seems that they are maintaining the belief that America needs to save the radical Islamic world from themselves - spreading democracy and whatnot so that they don't implode (something arguably have caused).

[ramiperlman]

Max's songs just keep getting better and better. His combo of catchy songwriting and poignant lyrics keeps me coming back and informed. Good work Max!!!!