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  • Thank you, Beatball!

    11:05 PM
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      • Myke Adams

        love it!

        3 years ago
      • Kevin Ng

        I ordered a copy off of e-bay. It looks awesome and I look forward to it! I like this "mini-lp" cd concept. The CD has to do something to be "hip" with the return of vinyl. ..
        ....I've only listened to "Take a Picture" on vinyl, so it's nice to finally own it on CD...

        3 years ago
      • Lía Pamina

        What a beautiful disc!

        3 years ago

  • The Shoe-Thrower

                              
    He stands alone among the throng
    His voice a choir of one
    And, oh, he knows what you have done

    The shoe-thrower has spoken
    And he has thrown
    I wish the shoes had been my own

    The hurler then was beat and broken
    But his message twirled
    In words and pictures 'round the world

    A symbol now, imprisoned still
    The hero's shoes a gun
    The hero's shoes too big to fill
    And all, oh, know what you have done

    MG 12/27/08
    10:04 PM
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      • Jeanette Leech

        I felt immense joy when I saw that moment on the TV.....In English history there's an Anglo-Saxon king called Alfred who is known for 'burning the cakes' by schoolchildren everywhere. I recently found out where that story came from. Alfred was so embattled by the Viking invasions that he sought refuge in the countryside, and was taken in by a peasant woman who instructed him to watch her cakes. He allowed them to be burned, and was told off by the woman - and this story was used to illustrate how far Alfred had fallen from being the king of England. Seeing Bush being the target of the shoe-thrower made me feel exactly the same; an appropriately humiliating end to his tenure.....Thank you Margo; I love the resonance of your words in capturing this moment.

        4 years ago
      • .. et avec Abir

        i can't wait to hear the song

        4 years ago
      • Devin

        Oh yes! I love it.


        Cheers!

        4 years ago
      • Lía Pamina

        OOOOH!! it is a new song! yeeeaaah!!!!!! ....That's great,You're the greatest!..Shoe-Thrower rules! :)

        4 years ago

  • About

    Despite misgivings about the accuracy of the 16 words embodied in this song (these words had been previously removed from a Bush speech given in Cincinnati, Ohio in October '02), the words appeared in Bush's State of the Union address '03. The words were among a litany used to gain the support of Congress and the American people for an invasion of Iraq. Fury over Joseph Wilson's July '03 NY Times article debunking the truth of the president's statement resulted in the "outing" of Wilson's wife by high government officials.  Label: Pure Mint Recordings www.pure-mint.com
    4:50 PM
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      • Jerome DePape

        Brilliant! I thought I'd nearly forgotten, but without having heard them, I knew exactly which 16 words you meant. Will people care when they've begun erasing people? Oh, that's right! Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib... places unknown...

        What's the old saying?

        "When they came for the journalists... I did not speak out, because I was not a journalist.... "

        6 years ago
      • Steve Barnett

        Never has a notorious "litany" sounded so good when placed in a musical context by an extremely talented singer/songwriter!  Kudos Kudos!  Steve

        6 years ago
      • urbanpanda

        amazing! you sound like sinead o'conner in this a bit. i love it! gettin' spunky margo!

        6 years ago

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