I make my living off the evening news

[KitchenWitch]

Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don’t have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em all around

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry

You don’t really need to find out what’s going on
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re stiff
Kick ’em all around

Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies
We got our dirty little fingers in everybody’s pie
We love to cut you down to size
We love dirty laundry

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When it’s said and done we haven’t told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!

[TOhioLiberal]

1. Okay...

I like this song...Should I hide now? :hide:

[KitchenWitch]

2. No

I like it too!

Heard it on the radio yesterday.

[TOhioLiberal]

3. Well people are so serious...

..about their likes and dislikes. I'd hate to say I like the song and have 1/2 a dozen people say 'that song sucks! You have no taste!' :) knowwhutImean?

[KitchenWitch]

6. I know exactly what you mean

Like because I am progressive I am supposed to like music that is so damn esoteric that even the performer doesn't get it.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear KitchenWitch!

I have ALWAYS loved this song!

But.....:cry: ....I can't remember who sang it! I can hear the group in my mind's ear too!

Who did it? Damn.....

:banghead:

[KitchenWitch]

5. Don Henley!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Oh, yes! Of course!

Thank you! :blush:

[KitchenWitch]

8. No problem!

[Major Hogwash]

15. Wasn't he the one that created those shirts with the weird collars?

I'm surprised more people don't know him for that reason than some song.

[Flaxbee]

9. I bought the cd last weekend... I've been wanting to hear

the song for MONTHS and so succumbed & bought a "greatest hits" Henley cd. I'm glad I did. LOOOOOVE this song.

[KitchenWitch]

10. Me too

I could not believe that the radio station actually played it.

The lyrics are still true today!

[HEyHEY]

11. AH!

[liberaltrucker]

12. Actually, it's

"kick 'em when they shit
kick 'em all around".

Sorry to be so picky

:pals:

[KitchenWitch]

16. Sorry, downloaded the lyrics from a "clean" site!

:rofl:

[billyskank]

13. Good morning KitchenWitch

:hi:

[NMMNG]

14. That song rocks

And it is so germane.

[RebelOne]

17. I've always loved that song. It is so, so true. n/t

[Squeech]

18. I couldn't agree more

I was already sick of the Eagles by the time "Hotel California" was in maximum saturation airplay all over the world, but this one song redeems them. (I like Glenn Frey's "Smuggler's Blues" too.)

Do you know this story? Mojo Nixon recorded a song called "Don Henley Must Die." Don Henley subsequently showed up at one of Nixon's concerts-- got up on stage and sang the song with him!

[Squeech]

19. Moreover

Maybe I can post something serious in this thread. I saw on Digby's blog that there's a wingnut site selling this on a tee shirt: "Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some assembly required."

I am totally flabbergasted at that. Obviously these are the people that think the librul media is somehow responsible for the miserable failure of every BushCo initiative-- but exactly what country do they think they're living in here? Do they really think the press shouldn't be free, or speech? Do they really think the government should never be accountable to the people-- or if it should, how is it supposed to happen, how are the people supposed to get the information?

Or are they just all bullies with a predilection for frontier justice? I had the idea, after 2004 and the 51% vote that gave BushCo "political capital," that this was an endorsement of torture by the red(neck) states-- that, God help us, these creatures are nostalgic for the days when real men maintained social order by lynching. I believe the buyers of these tee shirts kinda wish they said something other than "journalist," like maybe the N word.

On the other hand, if I were a covert operative looking to build a database of serious hatemongers, I could certainly do a lot worse than the file of purchasers of this tee shirt.

[El Fuego]

20. I just realized how prophetic that song is

"Dirty little secrets
Dirty little lies" ROVE, BUSH


"We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five" FOX "NEWS" BIMBOS

"Is the head dead yet?" TERRY SCHIAVO!

"You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone" MSM NEWS COVERAGE

[wildhorses]

21. it's ALL good...

ain't that
what They say
in Hollywood?
:hi: