{"id":24781,"date":"2014-03-23T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2014-03-23T05:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=24781"},"modified":"2014-03-22T09:51:40","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T14:51:40","slug":"isnt-it-ironic-government-surveillance-version-with-remy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/03\/23\/isnt-it-ironic-government-surveillance-version-with-remy\/","title":{"rendered":"Isn&#8217;t it Ironic: Government Surveillance Version (with Remy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q9p1ivjT-0c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 20 Mar 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Remy updates the Alanis Morissette hit for a certain senior senator from California.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Written by Remy. Video and animation by Meredith Bragg. Music performed, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ben Karlstrom.<\/p>\n<p>For full text, links, downloadable versions and more, go to: <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv\/2014\/03\/20\/remy-isnt-it-ironic\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv\/2014\/03\/20\/remy-isnt-it-ironic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lyrics:<br \/>\nA Senator lady<br \/>\nGot the news one day<br \/>\nThe country&#8217;s being spied on<br \/>\nby the NSA<\/p>\n<p>So she went out defending<br \/>\non each TV set<br \/>\nbut when she found out she&#8217;d been snooped on<br \/>\nshe got all upset<\/p>\n<p>And isn&#8217;t it ironic?<br \/>\nI mean, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like you&#8217;re at Chris Brown&#8217;s<br \/>\nand there&#8217;s punch in the fridge<br \/>\nor if The Bachelor<br \/>\npassed a geography quiz<\/p>\n<p>Learning Ted Kennedy<br \/>\nhappened to be good at bridge.<br \/>\nAnd who would have thought?<br \/>\nIt figures.<\/p>\n<p>Senator, this may surprise you<br \/>\nand the irony bites<br \/>\nbut Congresspeople ain&#8217;t the only ones<br \/>\nwith 4th Amendment rights<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like a minimalist<br \/>\nwho does their laundry<br \/>\nwith All<br \/>\nor if Woody Allen liked to watch<br \/>\nKids in the Hall<\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s like FDR<br \/>\ngot locked in a Honda Accord<br \/>\na cheap healthcare plan<br \/>\nthat you just can&#8217;t afford<\/p>\n<p>If Oscar Pistorius<br \/>\nreally hated The Doors<br \/>\nand who would have thought?<br \/>\nIt figures.<\/p>\n<p>I heard the government<br \/>\nis sneaking up on you.<br \/>\nLife has a funny, funny way<br \/>\nof calling you out<br \/>\ncalling you out.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on 20 Mar 2014 Remy updates the Alanis Morissette hit for a certain senior senator from California. Approximately 2 minutes. Written by Remy. Video and animation by Meredith Bragg. Music performed, produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Ben Karlstrom. For full text, links, downloadable versions and more, go to: http:\/\/reason.com\/reasontv\/2014\/03\/20\/remy-isnt-it-ironic. 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