Political Parody As a Weapon Part LXXIV; Up, Up and Away…In My Beautiful Balloon
Last week, in Part LXXIII, we examined the failed federal prosecutive assault on the family in Philadelphia through the lens of song parody. This week, a swing will be taken at the once-high flying target through a tune that was obvious even in the Age of Aquarius.
Last week’s events regarding the Chinese spy balloon that traversed Alaska, parts of Canada and the breadth of the United States from Pacific to Atlantic before being subjected to an air to air missile off the coast of South Carolina. Others at the site have examined some of the implications of this event, and the authors and commenters have asked questions that the Biden administration should be forced to answer (or forced to answer beyond It happened to Trump too even if no one told him about it). More revelations about the capabilities of this spy balloon and the misrepresentations of the counter efforts by the Biden administration during its journey are continuing to come forth.Some times a story is placed on a tee for song parody and it is difficult to not stride up to it and smack it with a fungo bat. either military, law enforcement nor counterintelligence training was sufficient to allow me to resist this “gimme”. As such, this week, I will be visiting the catalogue of the great American songwriter Jimmy Webb.
Jimmy Webb* was the post-World War II Baby Boom son of Oklahoma Baptist preacher who had served as a US Marine before becoming a man of the cloth. Learning to read and play music in the Church, by 1965 young Jimmy was able to parlay his talents and skills into a highly successful songwriting career and life in the music business as an arranger and performer. Webb supplied several of Glen Campbell’s hits (e.g. “By the Time I Get to Phoenix”, “Galveston”, “Wichita Lineman”) but had a diverse catalogue of songs and as well as performers who recorded his work, which range from “MacArthur Park” (Richard Harris’s near oration of “stri-ped pair of pants” stands alone in recorded lyrical music history) to “Highwayman” (an ode to reincarnation of the outlaw spirit released as a hit by the quartet of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson calling themselves The Highwaymen).
While many of Webb’s songs were heavy love songs or other serious material, he also had a lighter side as well. One of his songs from 1967 took six Grammy awards at the February 29, 1968 award ceremony as Song of the Year, Record of the Year, Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group (Fifth Dimension), Best Performance by a Vocal Group (Fifth Dimension), Best Performance by a Chorus (The Johnny Mann Singers) and Best Contemporary Song. In the early days of Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio show, it was the theme song for his “Condom Update”. I am referring, of course, to “Up, Up and “.
While others have pointed to the 1983 pop hit by Nena (who rivaled Dexy’s Midnight Runners in her affinity for armpit hair) “99 Luftballoons” as the perfect theme song for this incident, given that the lyrics are about how the Cold War turned hot as a result of the military defense industrial complex mistaking a toy balloon release (back in the day before it was known they kill sea turtles) for incoming enemy aircraft and triggering a world-destroying nuclear war. Given that the leadership of the Pentagon and NORAD spent their early teen years gawking at NENA on MTV, this subliminal paralysis resulting from their constant early exposure actually might explain their unwillingness to respond.
As such, I appropriated Mr. Webb’s tune, and re-worked the lyrics to briefly summarize the journey of this not so beautiful balloon.
China wants to spy in two hundred foot balloons
Through the US sky in two hundred foot balloons
They can float above our siloes and bases if they try
And they can spy, they can spy
Won’t keep it away
Chinese spy two hundred foot balloon
Scope a NORAD base with a Chinese spy balloon
In Joe Biden’s face with a Chinese spy balloon
Generals ignore what Joe will roar as time goes by
And they can spy, they can spy
Won’t keep it away
Chinese spy two hundred foot balloon
Suspended over our land from sea to sea
Biden had tried to at first ignore it
But when it clearly was viewed by you and me
He claimed now to deplore it
And gave an order for a hit
A Raptor in the air for the Chinese spy balloon
Shot it fair and square this Chinese spy balloon
From north to south and west to east across our sky
He let it fly let it fly
Then blew it away
Chinese spy two hundred foot balloon
Balloon
What’s coming our way
*Not to be confused with James Webb, the author, Naval Academy graduate and Marine officer who briefly served as Secretary of the Navy in the second Reagan term before becoming a democrat and running for and winning a term in the US Senate in the Virginia seat now held by Tim Kaine and who briefly declared for the 2016 democrat presidential field before ceding it to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.
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There was no real reason for China to fly the balloon except to tell the world that it can fly the balloon over the USA.
China got many of our military secrets during the Bubba/Crooked administration. It regularly steals patent and other information in addition to what our globalist companies give them.
And if China really wanted some additional info, it could have just asked China Joey for it.
Remember China gave the University of Pennsylvania several million to set up a “think” tank for Professor Joey Biden and his pals in 2016. It was simply a pass through to pay Joey. China owns Joey.
Ironically, the airspace around the Biden home in Greenville, DE is closed to all aviation, so Joe allowed the Chinese to do over the rest of the country what no American can do in the 19807 zip code.