Hank Green, Rhett and Link - The Worst of News 2009 lyrics

Hank do you remember when all of Georgia fled
That flood that left thousands
Homeless and seven dead
But while those people drowned and
Their houses went adrift
The news was about Kanye Westand Taylor Swift

Indeed Rhett & Link
I see the news media failin
Every time anyone mentionssarah Palin
They dispatch a dozen camera crews
Every time she poos
While I can't escape the feeling
She's just not news

And swine flu, while a killer
Got more love than it needed
Killing 4, 000 people while the normal flu
Unheeded
Kills 60, 000 people year in and year out
People like to have something
To freak out about but then there was that
Michael Phelps marijuana scandal
Just one picture and the media
Flew off their handle i mean
He did the exact same thing
As our last three presidents
Something about our priorities here
Does not make sense

So many important things happened
This year friend
Iran's election and mass recession
And Obama sworn in
But to us the things on cable
News seem so freaking dumb
And we can only hope that
We're not the only ones
Yes, we can only hope that
We're not the only ones

I don't think if crappy news
Gets any better than
The scandals of Tiger Woods
And David Letterman i mean
It turns out rich guys cheat on their wives
That wasn't news in the year twenty five

And one of the biggest stories
Of the whole entire year
Is that Susan Boyle could sing and
Bring an audience to tears
With all the pretty people auto tuned
I think we forgot you don't have to be hot
To The talent Britain's got

And I still laugh any time
I see some poor braggart
Proudly holding up a sign proclaiming
He's a tea bagger
Besides any confusion about the revolution
I think no matter what they mean
The news was an illusion
So many important things happened
This year friend
Iran's election and mass recession
And Obama sworn in
But to us the things on cable
News seem so freaking dumb
And we can only hope that
We're not the only ones
Yes, we can only hope that
We're not the only ones

And I think we three can all agree
The biggest load of po
Was that balloon boy falcon who
Was not in the balloon
Just another year where we
Kept the world alive
We didn't pay attention but
We somehow didn't die

So many important things happened
This year friend
Iran's election and mass recession
And Obama sworn in
But to us the things on cable
News SEEM SO FREAKING DUMB
And we can only hope that
We're not the only ones
Yes, we can only hope that
We're not the only ones
But since they're still reporting it
We just might be the only ones

Happy New Year, Hank and the other one
Your brother think his name is Don
John