Courtesy of MSN:
Many of this video's cultural references will probably be lost on American viewers, but if you've got any desire to see Julian Assange in a blond mullet wig (and who doesn't?), then you should probably watch it right now. The song he's singing sounds like a hit by John Farnham (the one-time lead singer of the Little River Band) called "You're the Voice," but the lyrics have been replaced with lines like, "We're all wiretapped now / we're all being fed lies." A WikiLeaks spokesman described the video, which is part of Assange's Senate campaign in Australia, as "a lot of fun," which the litany of Australian politicians portrayed offensively in the video may not agree with. But again, the pleasure of seeing Assange in a wig and denim jacket transcends party lines.
Hey do you remember how I said that Snowden's association with Assange, who we learned is a Ron Paul supporter, was destroying any chance for him to be taken seriously, and then I kept getting attacked in the comments section? Good times.
Yeah well, what do you say now?
Oh and for those uncultured Americans, like myself, who have no fucking idea who Assange is parodying, click here.
Looks like he is lip syncing. He just looks......well....STUPID!!
ReplyDeleteOT - Todd and Trig start school today - courtesy Stupid's fb page
ReplyDeleteYup, starting school without his glasses and hearing aids..should be a fun time for his teachers. Didn't Piper go back to school? Tripp? Will Bristol get a real job now that she has free time, or will she volunteer at the school? She could teach big bad words, or pass out the candy at snack time. Or she could be a playground assistant and push the kids on swings.
Deletethis Trig doesn't need glasses or a hearing aid. would like to see his ears.
DeleteJohn Farnham is The Voice.
ReplyDeleteHere's the real thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkOZTSvrHs
Hello from Sydney.
ReplyDeleteAssange is parodying John Farnham, a former 'King of Pop' in Australia known for a hit in the 60s 'Sadie the Cleaning Lady'...a resurgence in the 80s ('You're the Voice') and several farewell tours.
Hi Sydney! Backatcha from sunny California! Thanks for the post.
DeleteYou may be familiar with the YouTube sensation Auto-Tune the News, where . The group behind the videos has welcomed on a number of guest stars (including this great episode featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt), but could you imagine any serious political candidate making a cameo? No? Well, the Australian comedy YouTube channel Juice Rap News (they rap the news, in case that wasn’t clear) somehow managed to score infamous WikiLeaker Julian Assange, who is currently a candidate in the Australian election, to join in the raptastic fun with them. The result might make your brain explode.
ReplyDeleteThe Game of Thrones-themed installment introduces Assange sitting inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in normal attire, before undergoing a quick change of clothing. Assange looks… strange, to say the least, but even rapping about Australian politics wearing a bandana and t-shirt, he still comes across as a lot more dignified than, say, Miley Cyrus.
Assange sings lyrics like, “We’re all being wiretapped now, we’re all being fed lies!” There are really no words to encapsulate just how insanely awesome (or awesomely insane, depending on how you look at it) this video is.
Also, this happened:
http://www.mediaite.com/online/huh-julian-assange-makes-bizarre-cameo-in-australian-parody-rap-video/
"Yeah well, what do you say now?"
ReplyDeleteThanks for asking.
First off, I'd say that the post you linked to -- the one in which you "kept getting attacked" ? -- has, as far as I can tell, exactly ONE comment (the first one) which voices any dissent to your opinion.
Second, I'd say that you've pretty much perfected your impression of a parakeet with a bright, shiny object, HOWEVER, I'd also HAVE to say that Assange's bizarre behavior really IS such an exceedingly bright and dazzlingly shiny object that it turns me into a parakeet, too.
But while Assange does his cause NO good at all by appearing so foolish, the crazy behavior he engages in and the revelations Wikileaks exposes are two separate and distinct issues.
Reporting and/or commenting exclusively on the former in such a way as to try and discredit the latter REALLY seems like you're trying awfully hard to divert your readers' attention from what's important to what's actually terribly inconsequential.
In fact, if we take the same "logic" by which you keep attacking whistleblowers like Assange and Snowden and apply it to YOU then we'd focus entirely on having a vacuous yet vitriolic debate over whether your feeling attacked isn't in fact just some "paranoid outburst" and therefore proof that all the facts you've compiled on this blog are worthless bullshit.
Finally but MOST importantly, I'd say that the above criticism comes NOT from some wacky Palinbot but from a regular reader here since '08 who has nothing but awe and admiration for all your hard work exposing the Palins, your support for gay rights, etc., etc.
I therefore hope you'll please consider this feedback (which you asked for) in the spirit in which it's intended: constructive criticism, and NOT any form of attack.
Criticizing Assange for this silly appearance is Gryphen having a little fun.
DeleteCriticizing Assange for his (and Snowdon's, for that matter) admiration of the Pauls is completely justified.
Assange and Snowden are NOT whistleblowers. They are tools.
DeleteFlirty little thing, isn't he!
ReplyDeleteas soon as you hear the chorus you'll instantly remember John Farnham:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbkOZTSvrHs
-Oz
What If Sarah Palin Didn’t Run For Senate And Nobody Cared?
ReplyDeleteThere was a time, not long ago, when former semi-Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) could cause a stir just by Facebooking her own bad dystopian Obamacare fanfic, but hard times have fallen on the giving a rat’s winking ass about Sarah Palin industry. How bad has it gotten? Barely a month into her serious consideration of a bid to replace Senator Mark Begich (D-AK), Palin announced that she is “not planning to run for the U.S. Senate,” and not only did nobody care, they actually cared more about Palin’s thoughts on Ashton Kutcher than her senatorial ambitions, or lack thereof.
In fact, if I were not a regular reader of Wonkette, which still cares enough to cover Sarah Palin as a politician, I never would have known about Palin’s announcement, which came during a Friday appearance on Fox News’ On the Record with Greta Van Susteren, an appearance that was actually covered on this here Mediaite website right here. The headline from that appearance, though, was about Palin’s high opinion of Ashton Kutcher, who has somehow made work “cool again,” because the millions of unemployed are obviously just hipsters who don’t want to do something as played out as feeding their kids.
Right after that bit of incisive social commentary, though, Greta asked Palin about all the “chatter” she’s heard from Sarah Palin about a Sarah Palin senate bid, and the former Governor Resignate said something about how Mark Begich is referred to as “Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch” in Sarah Palin’s head, and that there are “thousands of Alaskans” who could do the job, and “it doesn’t have to be me. And as of this date, I am not planning to run for the U.S. Senate.
It’s true that she immediately followed that up with “but I certainly would never say never in this case,” but in the olden days, such a declaration would have been good for a Drudge link, a week’s worth of Special Comments from Keith Olbermann, and a chorus of wailing from Palin supporters that would explode your head like that guy in Scanners.
I know what you’re thinking, but it wasn’t just Mediaite who didn’t care about Palin resigning from her imaginary senate campaign: it didn’t even rate a headline at Conservatives4Palin, and they posted a headline on Saturday that announced “Governor Palin Tweets Madison Rising’s Version of The Star Spangled Banner.”
I kid C4P, but that post actually is interesting, because I wouldn’t have thought a real American like Sarah Palin would stand for a bunch of greasy musician types foolin’ around with the lyrics to our National Anthem. If you’ve never heard of Madison Rising, they’re the kind of guys who sit around thinking things like “Y’know what The Star Spangled Banner needs? A bridge.”
Palin also took a shot at Begich for using “my name as his fundraising tool,” claiming that “he’s kinds of in a panic there, being threatened, I guess.”
She didn’t say whether Begich felt more threatened by the 55% of Alaskans who feel negatively about Palin, or his own 18-point lead in the latest poll, and now, it seems we’ll never know.
On the off chance that some future generation does care, though, I feel it is my duty to present Palin’s kind of exit from a sort of senate race. Here’s the clip, from Fox News:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/what-if-sarah-palin-didnt-run-for-senate-and-nobody-cared/
He always came across as an Air Supply type dude. Hey, Jullian, don't quit your day job!
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