(from Drudgereport.com)

It was Rodham and Gomorrah Sunday just moments before First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton took the stage to announce she is running for U.S. Senate!

A song blasted out to the gathered crowd at the State University of New York at Purchase -- and out to viewers nationwide on C-SPAN and CNN. "Your sister's gone out, she's on a date And you just sit at home and masturbate...

"So you go to the village in your tie-dye jeans. And you stare at the junkies and the closet queens. It's like some pornographic magazine And you smile."

Billy Joel continued: "So you play your albums and you smoke your pot. And you meet your girlfriend in the parking lot..."

"Captain Jack will get you high tonight."

It is not clear why the Hillary Campaign selected Joel's 'Captain Jack' as a warm up at the university.

The first lady was unaware the song was playing just minutes before she was introduced, a backstage source, in tears, told the DRUDGE REPORT.

"This is not the message we wanted to convey on our big day."

A second campaign source explained how Billy Joel's Greatest Hits was selected to entertain the crowd by Clinton friend Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who also produced the 18-minute biopic that introduced Hillary.

"We were running late with the program, unfortunately," said the insider, "and no one realized that 'Captain Jack' was playing. The campaign offers its sincerest apology for the mistake. The first lady does not endorse the message in the Billy Joel song."

Hillary said during her announcement speech: "I've heard parents' concerns about the media's influence on their children. How to protect our children from the influence of a popular culture...?"

Keep C-SPAN off.

-- John Galt (still@doom.er), February 07, 2000

Answers

Give it up. I have.

-- Kyle (fordtbonly@aol.com), February 07, 2000.

Who is John Galt?

Love your pseudonym. Seemed appropriate considering the posting.

Best regards,

-- Joe (KEITH@neesnet.com), February 07, 2000.

While I have nothing but contempt for Billary, this song is decidedly anti-drug. It is about how a life is being wasted by drugs. There is enough to hang Billary for without a song-lyric criticism. Actually this is the type of argument SHE would probably use.

-- liu (lookitup@dictionary.com), February 07, 2000.

Not a great move, but clearly just a dumb accident, for you Illuminati-watchers.Did she have the eagle and pearl pin on while she made this decisive leap into dragging us into the chasm of degeneracy?

SUNY Purchase crowds shocked? I heartily doubt it. It's always been one of the hipper and most artistic SUNY branches (my little sister graduated there recently). I'd certainly be shocked if these kids _didn't_ know it by heart. This clunker of a song has been around since this geezerette was a college student in tie-dyes herself, i.e. SINCE BEFORE ANY OF THESE KIDS WERE BORN.It is a fixture on classic rock stations. You hear it everywhere crappy middle-of-the-road spineless pop pablum is played. I shudder to think that the committee might have been thinking," Billy Joel's Greatest Hits -- this will show the Young Folks that we are kewl like them. Groovy."

Or is the problem the dreaded M word? You conservatives gotta make up your minds, you can't rant about college students going out and having sex and yet not bless some self-sufficient alternatives* that they are going to do anyway. Bet you all stayed at home and did that too when you were college age. Kids will find their way there whether they watch TV or not. Yawn.

*Does this make it no longer OT but Topical for a Y2k and preparedness board?

-- Firemouse (firemouse@fcmail.com), February 07, 2000.

So, in other words, Hilary and her campaign are clueless both coming and going, right?

Right. . .

-- freez (tomjefferson@ben.franklin), February 07, 2000.

I figure she was trying to intice the Long Island voter pool to her cause, being Billy Joel is the biggest thing out of Long Island since, since, since... Well, you get the picture. I'm sure nobody listened to the songs, they just said "Find a slow one." and that was that.

Of course maybe they could have played "The Ballad of Billy the Kid". It's probably on the same album. But the audience would've thought it was for Bill and not Hillary.

Whatever happened to "New York, New York"? Even an instrumental version.

WW

-- Wildweasel (vtmldm@epix.net), February 07, 2000.

Good point, Wild Weasel. Watch her vowels -- will we see her start to ask for a cup of "cawfee"?

"New York,New York" is more Giuliani territory. Up here we're known for real wild turkeys on the streets (and wonderfully majestic they are), not empty bottles of Wild Turkey strewn in the alleys.

-- Firemouse (firemouse@fcmail.com), February 07, 2000.