Roger Ailes’ Deathbed Conversion

I’ve been cheating
Been mistreating
When will I be loved?

I’ve done slandered
I’ve done destroyed them
When will I be loved?

When I find a new Dem
That I want for mine
I always crush their soul with lies
It happens every time

I’ve made them blue
I’ve said total lies to
When will I be loved?

When I find a new Dem
That I want for mine
I always crush their soul with lies
It happens every time

Oh, I’ve done cheating
Been mistreating
When will I be loved?
When will I be loved?
Tell me, when will I be loved?

Apologies to Linda Ronstadt.

@ManchuCandidate: Din Buddy Holly write that tune?

@redmanlaw:
From wiki, it was Phil Everly in 1959.

Linda altered the order of the verses in her version (which I used.)

@ManchuCandidate: Yes, Linda did a great cover of this.

There is a lot of wisdom in this I think. I’m always amazed to the point that it even kinda makes no sense to me – How REALLY powerful people who squash their fellow humans, imprison and torture them and have entire nations cowering in fear, are themselves terribly terribly afraid of the WORD. Spoken or printed, THEY fear what people say and think.
If you lived in a palace and controlled stockpiles of weapons and armies, what threat is a bunch of talk from ragged people in huts?
But…they do fear it, both what people are saying NOW and their after death “legacy”

I suppose, that having worked to distort and play with reality all his life, he actually knows how little any illusionist can actually change things, and how much the audience has to be complicit. It takes only a second for a person to decide, “no this is a crock of shit” and all the effort is made worthless. Anyways, it wouldn’t be the first time an “abusive person” wanted their victim to absolve them before they die.

In WWII Nazi Eichmann was also confused why he was “unliked”. He wrote of his memories of Jewish babies being bayoneted while in their mother’s arms, this was his normal workday and he spoke of it like another might refer to any mundane office duty. Yet he was confused about the way the public hated HIM once his groups’ Power and Hate party was over, once the so-powerful men faced their own deaths and lack of power over that, and were all quite terrified when the “spirit” of History began to materialize before them.

@Annie K.: I think John Lennon nailed every one of the wealthy and powerful people with this song: Instant Karma. Eventually everything you did and didn’t do catches up with you.