Enbridge pipeline cheerleaders full of hypocrisy in criticizing 'foreign intervention.'
[Editor's note: It's Friday, practically a weekend day at some offices, or at least a day of winding down for others. And you know what that means: YouTube videos! Today, The Tyee presents "Ethical Oil: The Puppet Rap" -- a little satire for your consideration. We hope it provokes some creativity this weekend, or at the very least fills you with the kind of gleeful joy only puppets can inspire. This video was created by Caitlin Dodd, David Henderson-Hean, Kai Nagata, Spencer Powell and Emile Scott. If you like the track, click here for a free mp3 download. And feel free to follow along using the annotated lyrics provided below.]
Crackdown in Iran? Those Ayatollahs should park it!
Monks burnin' in Sichuan? well that's a growing market,
Buck your pinko paranoia! I don't believe in inflation, Dutch diseases be damned! All hail the petro nation!
Look. Petroleum's a fertilizer.
That's not a spill, it's an "Alberta geyser."
You guys say you like trees and grasses
Well, Ethical Oil is like free-range molasses!
That's what my dad says. I'm just a student,
I do this out of my deep passion for crude,
Evan, I got a guy who can get you in the know,
You best believe his shit's legit, cuz he's like, got his own show!
Easy-E:
Yo! They call me Easy-E
Cause you can hold my strings, if you can pay my fee.
I'm no slacker! I was selling Ethical Tobacco!
I'd sell water to a well after lobbying to frack it!
Capture regulators in my necktie and jacket!
You see my mouth moving and I know you wanna smack it!
Well too bad, radicals / I'm practically diplomatical
Canada reps my words from Durban to the Vatican.
E-Z-R-A
Ezra is my name, dogg. You know how we play,
L-E-V-A-N-T Cuttin' down trees on live TV!
If you really want to know about Ezra Levant unleased watch the encore presentation of his interview, his rant, his made-up facts on the spot, his hyperbole extraordinaire, his bumpf glorious, on Fanny Kiefer's Studio 4 (Shaw Cable 4) on Thursday, March 22nd. Check your local schedule for time(s).
Sorry but I tried my best to watch the full "interview" but had to shut it off due in part to Fanny Kiefer's inability to ask her guest any questions that would expose his disingenuous statements. But then again her guest didn't have anything to say about the fashion industry and shoes which Fanny could have provided some interesting and knowledgeable commentary.
Great video except the last image. Really, the ghost of Mao is the puppet master? Silly me I thought they lived on Wall Street. Once again the 1% dodge the criticism for THEIR actions. The last cell screams that the problem must be the Chinese not our benevolent rulers to the south of us. Maybe the Wall Street bull should have been bleeding the oil.
The Chinese capitalist class that have made all the money since Deng Xiaping's liberalization of the economy are all big wig Communist party guys and supported by the state. In China they are known as the "princelings," much as the in Russia you have the "oligarchs," and they are the one percent - the Chinese state oil industries that they run and profit from are the biggest new player in the tar sand development by far, and the major foreign backer of the Enbridge Gateway proposal.
I'll continue believing that the real control of the tar sands lies with the American oil companies. You are welcome to believe that China, the junior partner in the rush to exploit this filthy product, is wagging the dog.
..did a show from Ft. McMurray. His line seemed to be similar to a Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh trying to provoke a particular sentiment from Ft. McMurray residents in the audience; one that would be based on misconceptions he determined everyone else had about the place. I mostly enjoy Rex Murphy's vocabulary but this was pure BS in flowery language.
Now I don't have any thoughts about the place one way or the other, and even if I saw a picture of the tar sands pit I would not assume that residents were anything but well-meaning people trying to make a decent living. I really resented Rex Murray trying to make Ft. McMurray sound like the little community being picked on by everyone else. The rest of the country and the world for that matter just does not know that the Fort is a nice bustling, vibrant community he whined as did the Mayor of the town. Such arrogance was astounding.
I started to wonder if Rex Murphy was another Kathryn Marshall who could never understand that the battle concerns a pipeline through northern B.C. If Ft. McMurray sees the opposition to the pipeline as a threat to the economy of their community, that can't be helped. It has nothing to do with those opposed to the pipeline seeing Ft. McMurray as a bunch of rubes and hayseeds. Those were Rex's words.
It has something to do with the risk Northern B.C. is suppose to take in order for the company Enbridge to make great profits exporting it to China. Now If Ft. McMurray doesn't understand that then they are a bunch of "rubes and hayseeds."
As for Rex Murphy's performance, it was enough to make one gag.
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Jeffrey J.
1 year ago
Hilarious
Hilarious. And very, very timely.
http://kainagata.com/2012/03/16/ethical-oil-the-puppet-rap/
pwlg
1 year ago
excellent
If you really want to know about Ezra Levant unleased watch the encore presentation of his interview, his rant, his made-up facts on the spot, his hyperbole extraordinaire, his bumpf glorious, on Fanny Kiefer's Studio 4 (Shaw Cable 4) on Thursday, March 22nd. Check your local schedule for time(s).
Sorry but I tried my best to watch the full "interview" but had to shut it off due in part to Fanny Kiefer's inability to ask her guest any questions that would expose his disingenuous statements. But then again her guest didn't have anything to say about the fashion industry and shoes which Fanny could have provided some interesting and knowledgeable commentary.
jameswsthomson
1 year ago
Soooo good.
Thank you so much. Very glad someone finally made good use of that interview footage.
Waltz
1 year ago
Brilliant
You made my day !
Skywalker
1 year ago
Right, Brilliant!
Loved it and I don't even care for rap.
Steve Burgess
1 year ago
Critics say...
"I laughed while busting dope moves."--Me
zalm
1 year ago
Yep
Passing that one along. Especially to the Alberta brother-in-law...
Iwonder
1 year ago
ELevantard
OMG--the puppet looks more intelligent than he does---ooops I mean less stupid.
dw
1 year ago
Great stuff!!
I've watched it 3 or 4 times and it just makes me laugh my a$$ off.
Habos
1 year ago
Ezra...........
LeRant.
Thanks for removing all doubt that anyone may have had about your irrelevance.
Oh Behave!
MEW
1 year ago
Wrong Puppet Master
Great video except the last image. Really, the ghost of Mao is the puppet master? Silly me I thought they lived on Wall Street. Once again the 1% dodge the criticism for THEIR actions. The last cell screams that the problem must be the Chinese not our benevolent rulers to the south of us. Maybe the Wall Street bull should have been bleeding the oil.
Hilarious otherwise.
ofoab
1 year ago
Bloody marvellous, monty
Bloody marvellous, monty python bust a gut truth, anal probing aliens !
Ricky
1 year ago
MEW
The Chinese capitalist class that have made all the money since Deng Xiaping's liberalization of the economy are all big wig Communist party guys and supported by the state. In China they are known as the "princelings," much as the in Russia you have the "oligarchs," and they are the one percent - the Chinese state oil industries that they run and profit from are the biggest new player in the tar sand development by far, and the major foreign backer of the Enbridge Gateway proposal.
Cariboo
1 year ago
Delete
Stupid + Stupid = Stupid Too.
Come on, Tyee. You can do better than this.
kamie
1 year ago
Comic Genius!
Since the days of Jonathan Swift, satire has been a brilliant means of exposing political corruption.
Well-played, Caitlin Dodd,David Henderson-Hean,Kai Nagata, Spencer Powell, and Emile Scott. Well-played, indeed.
MEW
1 year ago
Ricky
I'll continue believing that the real control of the tar sands lies with the American oil companies. You are welcome to believe that China, the junior partner in the rush to exploit this filthy product, is wagging the dog.
Skywalker
1 year ago
Yesterday Rex Murphy on Cross Country Check Up..
..did a show from Ft. McMurray. His line seemed to be similar to a Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh trying to provoke a particular sentiment from Ft. McMurray residents in the audience; one that would be based on misconceptions he determined everyone else had about the place. I mostly enjoy Rex Murphy's vocabulary but this was pure BS in flowery language.
Now I don't have any thoughts about the place one way or the other, and even if I saw a picture of the tar sands pit I would not assume that residents were anything but well-meaning people trying to make a decent living. I really resented Rex Murray trying to make Ft. McMurray sound like the little community being picked on by everyone else. The rest of the country and the world for that matter just does not know that the Fort is a nice bustling, vibrant community he whined as did the Mayor of the town. Such arrogance was astounding.
I started to wonder if Rex Murphy was another Kathryn Marshall who could never understand that the battle concerns a pipeline through northern B.C. If Ft. McMurray sees the opposition to the pipeline as a threat to the economy of their community, that can't be helped. It has nothing to do with those opposed to the pipeline seeing Ft. McMurray as a bunch of rubes and hayseeds. Those were Rex's words.
It has something to do with the risk Northern B.C. is suppose to take in order for the company Enbridge to make great profits exporting it to China. Now If Ft. McMurray doesn't understand that then they are a bunch of "rubes and hayseeds."
As for Rex Murphy's performance, it was enough to make one gag.
kmdyson
1 year ago
inspiring
After watching the video I emailed Ms Marshall...really we should be trying to de-programme the poor thing...
Skywalker
1 year ago
@kmdyson
I think you would have to replace the hard drive completely.