Okay, so you've seen it? I apologize. But I needed you to so I can say this, and this goes for everyone clutters the internet with this sort of garbage, not just the fuckwads who made this video.

First of all, I don't care about your politics. If this video featured Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton I'd be saying this same spiel, so keep that in mind before you send me any hate mail about just being partisan. Really, I don't give a shit. Moving on.

Just because you think you're making some grand political statement does not mean that you're allowed to tell tired jokes, use video and Photoshop techniques that were outdated in 1998 and assault my senses with unfunny animated .gifs. Honestly, do you think that just because you're taking some kind of political stand and making fun of George W. Bush that you're allowed to be shitty, lazy and uncreative?

If anything, you have a responsibility to be better. This isn't like you're pointing out that Lindsay Lohan is a slut or that Pavorotti is fat. This is you trying to make the statement that president of the United States is either an idiot or highly corrupt or at the very least a bad leader. That is not something you can just do with a few minutes in Photoshop, a video editing program and a song you and your friends sat around and wrote while you were baked and you thought was hilarious at the time. Using tired old animations of the guy dancing and clips of relatively innocuous things happening on a badly drawn television only detracts from your cause, if anything, because it just makes you look immature and uninformed.

And, holy Christ, if you're going to take the time and make the effort to post something on the internet like this, fucking say something. There's "too much Bush?" Okay. What the fuck do you do about it? This isn't a presidential election year. Impeach the guy and you've got Cheney, who you say is the guy's boss anyway (ho ho! and what an astute observation that is, by the way!). So, you know, way to make a music video that was timely anywhere from two to six years ago (note the 2006 copyright at the bottom).

I honestly don't even know what the point of this is, anyway. Is this supposed to be someone's idea of satire? I can't tell, because it breaks every cardinal rule of what makes satire good. Like subtelty or insight or some sort of pointing out of absurdities. It isn't even just plain funny or alarming, either. Okay, you're saying the guy comes from a rich family. Um...is that supposed to be damning? It seems to me like everything you're pointing out in the video is just...irrelevant. He throws up the horns. Okay. You have him sing that he was born in the South in the godawful song. Well, that isn't even fucking true, because he was born in New Haven, Connecticut.

Show the guy doing something that is an illustration of hypocrisy. Make a comparison to a historical figure. Mention Iraq, for crying out loud. How could you fail this badly? Really?

There are any number of reasons to hate the internet. But chief among mine is the fact that now any blithering idiot who thinks he has a funny idea now has free rein to just put it out there for the whole world to see. Now everybody thinks they're just goddamn hilarious, and just to prove it they put together excrement like this.

Just because something is political does not make it relevant and it doesn't make it funny, either. So, please, anyone out there who wants to make more animated .gifs of the president dancing or of Cheney holding a shotgun or of Bill Clinton doing something sexual or of John Kerry and his football, please, don't.

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