{"id":2237,"date":"2008-08-26T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:34:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:34:04","slug":"making-light-of-bombing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/26\/making-light-of-bombing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Light of Bombing People"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a comment to another post, Max S. pointed out this video of a question-and-answer session where, when asked about policy toward Iran, John McCain makes a joke about the Beach Boys having a song called “Bomb Iran” and sings “bomb bomb bomb” to the tune of “Barbara Ann”:<\/p>\n

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I’m probably the only person left on earth who hadn’t already sseen it, but anyway. It might be useful for a discussion of militarization and\/or foreign policy, or the ways in which we obscure the reality of war such that the idea of bombing “Iran” is separated from any acknowledgement that you’re talking about bombing actual people.<\/p>\n

Thanks, Max!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: In a comment, thoughtcounts z said that this was probably a reference to the Capital Steps<\/a>‘ parody of the Beach Boys, which it very well may be–I’m apparently horribly out of touch with…well, everything. McCain said<\/em> The Beach Boys, so I just took him at his word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a comment to another post, Max S. pointed out this video of a question-and-answer session where, when asked about policy toward Iran, John McCain makes a joke about the Beach Boys having a song called “Bomb Iran” and sings “bomb bomb bomb” to the tune of “Barbara Ann”: I’m probably the only person left […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[256,1816,85,238,309],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-humor","tag-nation-iran","tag-politics","tag-election-2008","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29678,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/29678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}