Anti-Flag: The Press Corpse Meaning

The Press Corpse Lyrics

The {Downing Street} memo says...

...We gotta work to make the facts fit the false charges
Pull the wool over the eyes of the filthy masses
Stab the people in the back for the corporate choice
Roll the propaganda out using The People's Voice

We...

1. James Irr

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   Jun 2nd 2011 !⃝

   As a moderate point of View, and from my US History teachers' experience in the USMC:
   
   I wanted to start out of order so here is:
   
   "fires fueled on endless lies
   Black shrouds coat desert skies
   A nation's viewpoint blurred and led
   As embeds report what they're fed"
   
   fires fueled on endless lies is a double entendre of the hatred fueled by the Bush admin. (FUCK THEM FOREVER),and the fires literally burning in Iraq. Black shrouds are oil fields burning, according to my source this did go on in Iraq at least at the start of the war and that tour.
   
   "the White House boils over, "Al Jazeera got it wrong!"
   The Press Corpse jumps onboard singing the White House song
   While over in Iraq thousands are dead because of lies
   The spineless war drumming-press corpse have taken lives" going out on a major limb here since i am unaware of this situation but it may be Al Jazeera (a mid Eastern news paper) may have reported something that made the white house take more pointless actions against the mid east other than the primary mission, and the Admin didn't want to talk about it; and to add the view point blurred is our view point confused by nationalism and hate for Al Quida (who we weren't engaging in Iraq anyway)
   
   "Blame it on the MI-6 or CIA" the government likes to blame things on the easiest targets.
   
   "...We gotta work to make the facts fit the false charges
   Pull the wool over the eyes of the filthy masses
   Stab the people in the back for the corporate choice
   Roll the propaganda out using The People's Voice
   
   We don't want to talk about it...
   
   The press scribble scribble every half-truth spoke
   Then shoot it round the country like an April Fools joke
   Hype the nation for a Desert Storm love affair
   Wave the stars and stripes like you just don't care!"
   
   - the press wrote and fed to the Nation the Admins Facist message starting another wave of corruption, the blinded the people; they used the peoples power to enslave them. The final part of the quote stating "Wave the stars and stripes like you just don't care!" is the media and their followers believing Bush's Admin thinking that their so Patriotic and loving their country, while their message was hypocritical calling everyone else freedom haters and Anti America. Thomas Jefferson once said "Dissent is often the greatest form of Patriotism", and i think we often forget that it snot just those dying on a battle field (like the Corporations would Love us to believe.
   
   Overall this song is about the Media and Government being on the same page with destroying freedom.
   
   Feel free to finish were i left off and/or tell your POV...

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