What I Heard On the Radio Today

I don't listen to talk shows very much, but I do enjoy them when I can. It's always nice to get a more conservative perspective of the news, especially when there's some humor mixed in. One thing that makes me really happy is when the shows broadcast parody songs. For instance, the December before last, Glenn Beck ran a song entitled, "Happy Hanna-kwanza-*beep*mas" (to the tune of "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas") that ridiculed the commercial emphasis on "the holidays" instead of Christmas and the acceptance of Kwanzaa as a legitimate holiday. On the other end of the spectrum, I heard another one that was supposedly President Bush singing, "Bomb, bomb, bomb....Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann." Stupid, biased, misinformed, and/or wrong? Yes, but it made me laugh anyway. I'm sure I've heard others, too, but they just don't spring to mind....

...except for the one I heard today, which I think made me laugh harder than any I had heard before. It was on the Rush Limbaugh program, and it was supposedly Al Gore singing to the tune of Johnny Cash's "Ring of Fire." The lyrics went something like this:

The earth is a lovely thing,
But it is .... warming.
The temperature has risen half a degree,
Soon we'll all be burning.

The earth's becoming a burning ball of fire;
Polar bears drown, drown
As the seas creep higher;
And it burns, burns, burns,
The earth on fire,
A ball of fire.

There were more verses, too, but that's all I remember. If you were lucky enough to be listening to the EIB network around 2:10 this afternoon, you know just how hilarious the whole thing really was: specifically, EXTRAORDINARILY hilarious.

While we're on this subject, did you know that in 1975 some scientists actually proposed MELTING the polar ice cap to avoid global cooling? (Link found on GlennBeck.com.) Ha! Maybe that plan for saving the earth will be back in vogue in another twenty-five years.