April 14, 2009, - 4:42 pm
Conservative?: Sean Vannity Pimps Class Envy Song
By Debbie Schlussel
I try to make it a point not to listen to the Sean Hannity radio show. The show is great the first time around . . . when it’s called “The Rush Limbaugh Show.” After that, it’s simply a warmed over, cheap imitation. Who needs a a Yugo, when you already have a Lamborghini? Plus, I can only take so many phony “You’re a great Americans” at one sitting and hearing someone read word-for-word from various websites and newspaper columns (including my own) without credit.
But today, I forgot to change the station as I came out of a store while doing errands. And, when I turned on my radio, the Great Ego Pumpkin was blathering on about his presence at a tax day tea party in Atlanta, tomorrow. Vannity went on and on praising and then playing a song, “Shuttin’ Detroit Down,” that he says John Rich of “Big and Rich” will perform on his show, tomorrow.
But the song is full of Obama-style liberal class envy. It’s bad enough that businessmen couldn’t wear suits and ties during the G-20 Summit in London, in fear of loss of life or limb. And that employees in Germany took their supervisors and managers hostage. And that at least half of the French think it would be okay to harm their bosses.
Now, pseudo-conservative Vannity is in on the act with his friend John Rich. It’s funny–the song whines against executives taking bonuses. But John Rich and Sean Vannity–both multi-millionaires–get bonuses for ratings and sales, respectively. Apparently, it’s okay for them to make millions and take bonuses. But not okay for business executives, whose companies actually produce goods and provide services.
Here are the hypocritical, class envy lyrics:
Shuttin’ Detroit Down
My daddy taught me that in this country everyone’s the same
You work hard for your dollar and you never pass the blame
When it don’t go your way
Now I see all these big shots whinin’ on my evening news
About how they’re losin’ billions and how it’s up to me and you
To come running to the rescue
Well pardon me if I don’t shed a tear ’cause they’re selling make believe
And we don’t buy that here
Cause in the real world they’re shutting Detroit down
While the boss man takes his bonus pay and jets out of town/
And DC’s bailing out the bankers as the farmers auction ground,
Yeah while they’re living it up on Wall Street in that New York City town,
Here in the real world there shuttin’ Detroit down.
They’re shuttin’ Detroit down.”
Well that old man’s been workin’ in that plant most all of his life
Now his pension plan’s been cut in half and he can’t afford to die
And it’s a crying shame, ’cause he ain’t the one to blame
When I look down and see his calloused hands,
Let me tell you friend it gets me fightin’ mad
Cause in the real world there shutting Detroit down
While the boss man takes his bonus pay and jets out of town/
And DC’s bailing out the bankers as the farmers auction ground,
Yeah while they’re living it up on Wall Street in that New York City town,
Here in the real world there shuttin’ Detroit down.
They’re shuttin’ Detroit down.”
Instrumental solo
Yeah while they’re living it up on Wall Street in that New York City town
Here in the real world there shuttin’ Detroit down
Here in the real world there shuttin’ Detroit down
In the real world they’re shuttin’ Detroit down, they’re shuttin’ Detroit down.
Hey, you know who’s “livin’ it up” in those “criminal” private jets that John Rich rails against in a song Sean Vannity thinks is so great?
That would be John Rich and Sean “G-6” Vannity. But I guess it doesn’t count when the people who pay to go to Freedom Concerts are footing the bill for Vannity to upgrade himself and his posse to a G-6 private jet.
Yet, Rich has the nerve to whine on about working class farmers and calloused hands. PUH-LEEZE. Like he or Sean Vannity knows from this? This is a multi-millionaire with a mansion, several fancy cars, and better accoutrements than anyone outside the top 1% of American wealth.
Talk is cheap, Sean Vannity and John Rich. Lyrics are apparently even cheaper. And more hypocritical.
Hey, I think I’ve found two uber-examples of a new phrase I’ve coined, “Limousine Populist.”
And you know who else is a similarly multi-million endowed hypocrite populist? Sean’s brownshirted, swastika’d friend, Pat Buchanan.
Those people who fly jets, get bonuses, and work on Wall Street will be the ones paying a good percentage of the taxes tomorrow on Income Tax Deadline Day. And they deserve the perks of the good life every bit as much as Sean Vannity and John Rich. It’s a shame that Sean Vannity and John Rich won’t face facts.
Real conservatives don’t begrudge people on Wall Street and other corporate execs the money–and, yes, bonuses–they earn. That’s capitalism. And that’s what we believe in. That, and the free market.
And, by the way, as someone who lives in suburban Detroit and has most of my life, I am confident in saying that this “overpaid” (according to the class envy he preaches in his dumb song) hick, John Rich, hasn’t a clue about the reasons Detroit is shutting down. Executives who get paid bonuses and people on Wall Street who make money have nothing to do with it.
Dumb, clueless country songs don’t help. Neither do songs attacking “New York,” and I think we know to whom he’s referring–Pat Buchanan’s least favorite religion.
Gotta play the class warfare card like the Left. If Vannity was a real conservative, he wouldn’t be doing it. When you have to rip off the Left, they ain’t got nothin’ to worry about. There’s a reason “conservatism is in exile.” Its the guy promoting it who doesn’t have a clue as to what its really all about any more than he knows “Shuttin’ Detroit Down” is an attack on the very capitalist system responsible for American prosperity and greatness. Oh and executives and their bonuses have nothing to do with why the economy is in such a mess today. Go look in the mirror, Vanity!
NormanF on April 14, 2009 at 6:06 pm