"Katrina Kids" and a bizarre serenade to Laura Bush (unbelievable)

[givemebackmycountry]

And they were worried about gay parents at the Easter Egg roll? This tribute to Bush and FEMA by the "Katrina Kids" is just plain creepy. Talk about exploiting children for political reasons.

Thanks to AmericaBlog and our good friend John Avarosis.
DU and John's site make a wonderful respite for folks like us.
I check AmericaBlog several times a day because of stuff like this.
Today he directed me to Think Progress to sample this little tid-bit.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/04/17/katrina-song/

‘Katrina Kids’ Sing to Laura Bush: ‘Congress, Bush and FEMA…Have Come to Rebuild Us’




Today at the White House Easter Egg Roll, dozens of children “from the stricken Gulf Coast region serenaded First Lady Laura Bush with a song praising the beleaguered Federal Emergency Management Agency.” To the tune of “Hey Look Me Over,” the kids from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama sang:

“Our country’s stood beside us
People have sent us aid.
Katrina could not stop us, our hopes will never fade.
Congress, Bush and FEMA
People across our land
Together have come to rebuild us and we join them hand-in-hand!"



This is disgusting on so many levels.
All that's missing is the line where the little kiddies sing about how great "Dear Leader" is.

Fuckin' Laura Bush.
What a drugged out twit.
She probably thought she was seeing the Dixie Chicks.

[babylonsister]

1. I honestly wonder where their parents are. Could this be another

fake story dredged up by Rove, and these kids live nowhere near the gulf coast? Nothing else makes sense.

[goclark]

5. Unreal ~every second is a new jaw drop event nt

[K8-EEE]

2. Cripes!! BushCo Is Getting Saddam-Like With The Propaganda

Creepy dictator schtick.

[DesEtoiles]

3. Here's my verse

Bush screwed us over
Congress did the same
But we're not retarded - Republicans are lame!

[Canuckistanian]

27. Hey, that's catchy...

You should sing it on 'American Idol', or as repubs might call it, 'Unamerican Idol'.

[Olney Blue]

4. Post traumatic stress syndrome or perhaps an "attract more bees

with honey" strategy to get the WH to follow through on their
promises.

[Dogmudgeon]

6. No, it's (with all due respect) not disgusting

It's in-fucking-sane.

It's like something you'd expect to find in North Korea or Turkmenistan.

I had to read that twice, that's how astoundingly crazed it was.

--p!

[MidwestTransplant]

7. I hope Olberman or Anderson Cooper cover this. John Stewart too.

[uppityperson]

8. They missed the word "despite" before the Congress, etc line

[givemebackmycountry]

9. Front row...

Thanks.

:hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi: :hi:

[Contrary1]

10. This story can't be true, because....

Repubs don't believe the White House Easter Egg Roll should be used for political purposes.

"..."It's improper to use the egg roll for political purposes," said Mark Tooley of the conservative Institute on Religion and Democracy."

Oh wait...this statement only applies to The Family Pride Coalition. My bad.

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/1/20/220403.shtml?s=icp

[PublicWrath]

11. You've all read "It Can't Happen Here" right? n/t

[yorkiemommie1]

12. unbelievable

and kicking .... can't comment more because i am speechless.

[gatlingforme]

13. That is just sick. psychotic too.

[dad]

14. I think the kids were serenading Laura B so she would learn the name of

the hurricane. It's not "KARRINA", Laura.

[silverojo]

15. This is just...nauseating.

[don954]

16. well you should have heard the chorus!

Yes, Bush loves me!
Yes, Bush loves me!
Yes, Bush loves me!
For Jerry Falwell tells me so!




Just kidding, but i couldnt help to imagine it after the above...!

[nicknameless]

17. Absolutely defies comment. Who set those poor kids up?

A song praising a government that prevented protection (withdrawal of levee funding), prevented rescue and relief, and is preventing cleanup and angling to steal people's property?

:grr:

[Kurovski]

18. Anytime ANY children are put near this filthy administration I cringe,

but this is really the worst thus far.

BushCo are unspeakable filth whom relish and nurture their own diseased spirits and minds.

[LibertyorDeath]

19. Absolutely Vomitus

:puke::puke::puke:

they have zero shame

[OneBlueSky]

20. just when you think you've seen the lowest . . . it gets lower . . . n/t

.

[xchrom]

21. how much did they pay them?

[Vickers]

22. Wow...Bush Youth.

Bizarre, bizarre, bizarre.

[elehhhhna]

23. Kim George Ill must LOVE that song! Heckuva job, children!

[sakabatou]

24. Who wants to bet they pumped in kool-aid intraveinously

[proud2BlibKansan]

25. How repulsive!

Check out those t-shirts!!

Look at me! Look at me!! I am a victim and the first lady cares.

Hate to break it to you kids but I don't think she gives a hoot about your problems.

[noamnety]

26. the children sat on the grass

"... as Mrs. Bush read; she sat in a white wrought iron chair, freshly toweled by two Park Service employees."

okay, that part's a joke, right?

freshly toweled?
by park service employees?
TWO of them?

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2006/04/17/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/

[Canuckistanian]

28. Next up... Some folk music

[lwcon]

29. Katrina Kids were the openers...

The follow-up act was The WTC Widows, with a perky tribute to the VP and his anti-terrorism task force, to the tune of "Beach Baby":

Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
You didn't meet
Jan. two-oh through eleven September
PDB wasn't read
And our husbands are dead
But we love you!

The final scheduled performers were The Enemy Combatants, who had planned a stirring rendition of "Guantan-America." Unfortunately, they were a no-show, and attempts to reach them have been unsuccessful.

___

Hey, the liberal light is always on at the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. Please stop by and say "hi!"

[tom_paine]

30. That's so goddamned Soviet it makes me shudder

We are merely a cheap imitation of the old USSR at this point.

We have the same "voting", the same right to be spied on if we oppose THE PARTY, and so much more...even the same horrid phony nationalistic "songs".

I guess we should be fortunate the Halliburton Homeland Detention Camps aren't finished yet.

[hatrack]

31. "Treblinka is our destiny"

No, I'm not making this up.

"We look straight out at the world,
The columns are marching off to their work
All we have left is Treblinka
It is our destiny

We heed the commandant’s voice
Obeying his every nod and sign
We march along together
To do what duty demands.

Work, obedience and duty
Must be our whole existence
Until we too, will catch a glimpse at last
Of a modest bit of luck
Hu-Ha."

Of course, it probably sounds better in the original German:

"Frei in die Welt geschaut
Marschieren Kolonnen zur Arbeit.
Für uns gibt es heute nur Treblinka,
Das unser Schicksal ist.

Wir hören auf den Ton des Kommandanten
Und folgen dann auf seinen Wink.
Wir gehen Schritt und Tritt zusammen für das,
Was die Pflicht von uns verlangt.

Die Arbeit soll hier alles bedeuten
Und auch Gehorsamkeit und Pflicht,
Bis das kleine Glück
Auch uns einmal winkt."

http://www.deathcamps.org/reinhard/arsongs.html

[Kailassa]

32. I was eating dinner, now I'm too nauseated to eat. n/t