Choosing A Rev'rend
Observing the inner workings of the influential media
to Frank Loesser's "Sit Down You're Rockin' The Boat" from Guys and Dolls
(I dreamed last night I got on the boat to heaven)

I dreamed last night
    Moyers interviewed a Rev'rend
And maybe by coincidence
    that Reverend was black.
But as I watched, all they
    both managed to convey
Was the Reverend's reluctance
    to admit that he's a quack.

But the pundits all crowed, "We've found
A black Rev'rend rocking the boat
That cable news can now drag under
As Obama bowls in a tie and coat.
He'll drown, He'll drown, He'll drown, He'll drown.
We've a Rev'rend rocking the boat."

Why did Moyers and those pundits
    decide to pick his Rev'rend?
Didn't other candidates
    have Rev'rends that they'd missed?
We know McCain recruited
    the demonic Rev'rend Hagee,
Whose sermons put him at the top
    of Hell's Most Wanted List.

But the pundits would cry, "He's white,
No white Rev'rend's rocking the boat
That cable news wants to drag under
With McCain so old he'd no longer float.
He'd drown, He'd drown, He'd drown, He'd drown.
There's no Rev'rend rocking the boat."

Music & Original Lyric by Fran Loesser
Alternate Lyric by Bob Carlson
www.politicalboondoggles.com
5/5/08

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