Regime Change with Occasional Music: Why YouTube was Made for a Time Such as This

So here are a few I found and now post for your pleasure.  I include links because I have learned not everyone sees my embedded videos. 

This first repeats the Herbert Hoover myth and only picks on one candidate, but is still pretty funny.

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Rhett and Link awesome as usual:

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Here’s Arlo Gurthrie

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Bearish, a satire using Cherish:

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I’m blanking on the original song.  But I like the fact that our two performers are far away from pretty-boy rock.

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Here is a genuine American lament.

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I think this one’s my favorite, mainly because I really hate the original song and am glad to see the tune put to good use.  It is also the most sad since it is written during the dim hope that Congress might do the right thing.  There are a couple of obscene gestures in the vid I wish weren’t there (though I’m not sure I can call the first one inappropriate since, as the song says, it is what Paulson does to us.  The second one is just juvenile).

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This last one has nothing to do with anything.  But it explains a lot about my life right now since I chose communication as a major from the beginning.  Didn’t even try engineering.

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3 Responses to Regime Change with Occasional Music: Why YouTube was Made for a Time Such as This

  1. al says:

    The song you cannot recall:
    http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/The-Weight-lyrics-Bob-Dylan/A8220C24FFCB8840482569690036FC3A

    These guys actually fit in with the original artist.

    al sends

  2. oldfatslow says:

    Hmm, we always called Education the
    College of Last Resort.

    ofs

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