“Teflon John” McCain by Max and the Marginalized
Posted by BuelahMan on April 12, 2008
BuelahMan’s 2nd music video featuring Max and the Marginalized and their rockin’ tune, “Teflon John”, featured at HuffPo. My first video was ELO: The Jungle.
John McCain, whether he’s calling his wife the C-word, mixing up Sunni with Shia, making repeated false claims about Iran, is repeatedly proving to everyone that doesn’t work for CNN or MSNBC that he’s completely batshit insane. Enjoy our song Teflon John for McCain and the MSM that refuses to scrutinize him.
Teflon John
It’s so funny everyone forgot to laugh
At your temper even shorter than the shelf life of a gaffe
From your lips to no one’s ears, somehow disappears into the past
If it came from my side no one would ignore
That stupid joke about Barbara Ann, or when you called that wife of yours–
a country needs a whole lot better
than the mixed up words and letters, evermore
But the nonsense only echoes for about three seconds long
They’ve got their fingers in their ears, they can’t point out where you’re wrong
Teflon John, is this thing on?
All the microphones are broken
And the lines that you’ve misspoken
Are met with nothing but a token nod-along
They just move on, so move along
I never ever would’ve guessed
That when you ride for half the price on the old Straight Talk Express
You get the Denny’s senior special
And it comes with a free pass from the press
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So let’s not put no huffy hotheads where they really don’t belong
I’d so much rather see you feeding ducks down at the pond
Teflon John, is this thing on?
All the microphones are broken
And the lines that you’ve misspoken
Are met with nothing but a token nod-along
They just move on
Oh Teflon John, where have they gone?
Let that sucking up begin
All your friends will let you in and that microscope will never focus on
How you’ve got it wrong
So move along, Teflon John
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Familographer said
Nice job of video production, B’man! And where did Max& come from? It definitely illuminates the tawdry antics of the press who, finally cognizant that their lazy, know-nothing incompetence are hugely responsible for US citizens lethargic snooze thru the drumroll that became “Mission Accomplished” (not), they pirouette through a round of mea culpas and and bail right into a giant love fest and circle jerk with McCain. Lots of people like to admire the man for surviving 5 years of prison in Vietnam. I like to think it tells more about Vietnam than it does about McCain. After all, the was apprehended in the process of aerial bombing of a country with which there was no official state of war. I wonder if he would have survived five years of Gitmo, or rendition to N. Africa? I guess when it comes to gored ox, it’s a cannibal’s banquet, if you’re the mainstream US press.
lynda said
I think I had sent this to you– but it is part of an email chat I had with an associate– re: McCain and his PTSD> which he does have because is is not immune from it. We were talking about his ability to serve as Prez… [which by the way was talked about back during the 9/11 attack even before the dust settled]. Here is the approved c/p:
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association, Fourth Edition. Most of my personal opinions and working opinions are reflected from this resource. I know one of the committee members that helped write this definition
And the committee, I have to say, brought together people who’d worked with traumatized people on many different social settings — combat veterans, accident victims, less from the sphere of sexual and domestic violence, but we were represented to some degree, and political violence. And what the consensus came out to be was that traumatic events were those that instilled a feeling of terror and helplessness. but experiences that instill helplessness and terror… which turns out to be different from fear.
Fear is something that we’re all biologically wired to experience when we’re in danger. We share this with other animals. When we perceive danger, we alert, we startle, we look around and figure out, do a quick appraisal of the situation, and we either fight or flee. That’s being revised now by some researchers looking more at women who say that “fight or flight” is a little bit more the male response. “Tend and befriend” — there’s a tendency to kind of huddle with one’s kind that you observe more in females. But, okay, fight or flight: there’s a whole biology of fear that’s involved.
Fight or flight doesn’t work in conditions of terror and helplessness. Under those conditions, it appears that some kind of biological rewiring seems to happen in people and in animals as well. So that even after the danger is over, the person continues to respond to reminders, to both specific reminders and to generally threatening situations as though this terrifying event were still occurring in the present. So you have the activation of the fear system, hyper-arousal. You have a kind of re-experiencing of the trauma that takes the form of flashbacks, nightmares, and so forth. And then you have this other more poorly understood part of the traumatic syndrome that has to do with a shutting down of responsiveness. Numbing, a sense that things aren’t real. There may be amnesia for some, more, or all of the event. A sense in the aftermath that one is just not really oneself. One is going through the motions. There’s a loss of connection of things that are or previously of interest. And these are called the numbing or withdrawal or symptoms of PTSD. So hyper-arousal, re-experiencing, numbing is the triad. It’s a descriptive formulation. We understand a little bit about the psycho-biology, not a whole lot. And I think we’re coming to understand more and more that that’s the simple form. That is what happens to some people after a single impact trauma. If you repeat it, over and over, and especially if it begins early on and one’s development is formed in this environment, it gets a lot more complicated. I think it’s true of people in any situation of coercive control, whether you’re talking about a hostage situation that goes on for a long time, whether you’re talking about domestic violence or sexual child abuse … some religious cults have this same captivity kind of situation. And then, of course, the political situations of concentration camps or political prisoners.
Basically– In summarizing “The dialectic of trauma gives rise to complicated, sometimes uncanny alterations of consciousness.” And then you go on to compare the political doublethink in an Orwell novel with what the psychologists and the psychiatrists call disassociation. So, you’re suggesting that this kind of repression, inability to confront both the individual reality and the larger reality, is something that happens to the individual and in some ways to the society.
It’s fascinating. If you talk to survivors of, especially the prolonged and repeated trauma, where the perpetrator, the captor, the torturer isn’t content to just have external compliance, but wants the captive to adopt and endorse his worldview, even after liberation you’ll get people saying, “I’m living in a double reality. I have the present and the past co-existing in my mind. It’s not clear which is more real to me. I have what’s left of my old value system, and my old way of seeing the world, and the perpetrator’s way of seeing the world co-existing in my mind. I can go back and forth between the two, and I’m not sure which I belong to or which belongs to me any longer.” So people have the experience of living in a double reality. And they describe … even the amnesia, people will describe simultaneously knowing and not knowing what happened. Remembering and not remembering what happened. When people get their memories back, they will often describe it as simultaneously re-living the experience and being outside of it as though it happened to somebody else. So, people learn to divide their consciousness under captivity, under conditions of coercive control. And since we don’t even understand unitary consciousness very well, when people have double consciousness, double reality, I’m in awe. I think it’s a fascinating window into how the mind works.
The simple formula for recovery and/or reclaiming lives back is: there are three elements. It’s providing them a zone of safety. Then they remember and tell their story. And then, very importantly, they have to reconnect.
I think that’s the take-home message that I try to give whenever I express my opinion, and whenever I aid in assisting others in their internal-to-external work…..is… I don’t think patients, survivors, victimized people can recover in isolation. They need other people and they need to take action in affiliation with others. I don’t think therapists can do therapeutic work alone. When we’re isolated with this, we do give in to despair. We do burn out. Or we lose our perspective. Ultimately if you’re talking about horrible abuses of power, you’re talking about the atrocious things that one person does to another person. And just when you think you’ve heard everything, and there’s simply nothing else that you could imagine that one person would intentionally do to another, somebody comes along with a story that just blows you away all over again. So, you’re dealing with very profound questions of human evil, human cruelty, human sadism. The abuse of power and authority. And the antidote to that is the solidarity of resistance. Nobody can do that alone. And, no one becomes whole, as in ones-full-self- prior; but left in a state of ‘functioning-in-survivor-mode’ is not re-inventing a life to be led…. It is remaining a victim and victimizing others by way of making life choices while constantly numbing ones self.
Hence– if John McCain has been forced into the public arena since leaving Nam– and exercised only his continued survivor skills to seemingly live day by day– then he is not the man to have answer the red phone nor lead this country…. Why? Because he actually is not leading himself.
MaxMarginal said
thanks my good man! it’s up on my blog =)
very appreciated-
max + the band
WildBill Nashville said
i appreciate the video, aggree w/ the message etc. but in my opinion, we have to remember the simple fact, the true power lies not in the kings, but the king-makers…corporate cash, PAC’s, and any multinational profit machine.
cash is king, he took over from cotton, and we must focus on some simple facts re. businesses…they make their own rules, some that even supercede local and federal laws, and when they have enough cash, acctually receive corporate fuckin welfare…gimme a blowjob..this is ludicrous.
it goes back to watergate,,follow the money, guess who’s deep-throat, and it ain’t Linda… try some of that freedom of information shit…i looked up one of my former CEO’s…and he was in a very interesting mafia network investigation… knowledge is power, and it may be our last hope…keep up the good work b-man…
your bro…wildbill
Gene'O said
Cool. The edit is nice and smooth, and I think the mix of media is good – the visual held my attention all the way thru. I love the Shining Reference at the Beginning, and that shot at the end with Bush waving his hands with McCain in the background, too. The composite of all the hugs is good, also. If I had one beef it was that I didn’t have quite enough time to read the first cartoon or the Tom Tomorrow cartoon about 2/3 of the way thru, but that’s minor. Excellent work, I say.
Also, if you haven’t seen this, you should.
http://howinsaneisjohnmccain.blogspot.com/
I have no idea who runs this blog. They wandered by my place a couple of weeks ago and dropped a link that was so funny I went and checked them out. I’ve been keeping up with it since then, and I think it’s good enough to catch on if enough people find it before the election.
buelahman said
Hot Damn,
WildBill finally posts a freaking comment!!!
You are dead on brother about the Big Money that controls it all (look to the left and see where I address Big Money and all its ugly step children… Big Banking, Big Media, etc). They are all tied together and is what owns all of the candidates.
But most rednecks don’t know this or truly understand it. Anyone that can still claim Bush as honorable or a good president (believe me, they are out there and McCain is one of them) is either a maniac or totally brainwashed.
Good to see you here, old buddy.
buelahman said
Lynda,
I have plans for your comment, so no reply at the moment.
Except to say, “Thank you.”
buelahman said
Gene’O,
Thanks for your critique (very well taken and appreciated). I, too, had a problem with the extra text, sorry. Getting the timing down on the cips takes some practice and I must keep in mind that longer text will need more time.
I plan on checking out the link today.
Thanks.
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