They're No Orville & Wilbur

Are you ready for some quality entertainment? Check this out! You can listen to a sneak preview of the latest release from The Right Brothers, called "Bush Was Right!" It's actually not that bad, when you get past thinking that they borrowed a bit from Billy Joel's "We Didn't Start the Fire". I think the part that goes "France...Wrong! Zell Miller...Right!" is kind of funny. If you go their official site and click on Promo, you will see a video with excerpts from some of their greatest "hits". After seeing that, I wonder if they send any royalties to Tim Robbins, because a couple of those songs sound like they could have been lifted right out of Bob Roberts. In fact, the title of one song ("I Want To Live") WAS a Bob Roberts song title. Robbins has said that he never released a soundtrack album from the movie because he was afraid songs would be played on radio out of their satirical context. It looks like The Right Brothers have appropriated much of the spirit of Bob.

Being the good, red-blooded American capitalists that they are, The Right Brothers will only allow you to hear a small sample - you have to pay for the full download. And therein lies the problem. While some musicians and other artists incorporate a political message into some of their work, I don't think they start out with the ambition of making an entire career out of it. And the ones who do generally have their niche audience and don't make it into the mainstream. Michael Moore might be an exception, but in his wildest dreams he could never have imagined the commercial success he'd have with his films. Maybe The Right Brothers will have some success, but I doubt it. I wish them the best, though. While I'm sure that many of their fans are stuck in a double-standard and have complained about liberal entertainers sticking their noses into politics, I think artists and performers have every right to put out whatever message they want, and I give The Right Brothers credit for at least being entertaining.

I'm still convinced that this is the most breathtakingly bad music video ever produced. ("Amer-uh-ca!") Come on, conservative readers. Even the patriotic-est and flag-wavingest of you have to admit that it's ridiculous. The biggest joke of all is the disclaimer that the artist is not responsible for any spoofs of that video, so "DO NOT BE FOOLED BY IMITATIONS!" I have yet to see one of these spoof videos, but I can't imagine them being any funnier than the original.