Why hasn’t Wayne Newton launched a counterattack?

Cranky it up! The AARP set got hip to Bush-bashing lyrics this month when the aging Stones weighed in against an unnamed neocon. But brat rappers and pop poeticizers have been busting on the president for years. A sampling:

-- SARAH HEALY

(Artist: Anti-Bush lyric)

Eminem

Let the president answer a higher anarchy

Strap him with an AK-47, let him go, fight his own war

Let him impress his daddy that way

(from “Mosh”)

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Beastie Boys

Well I’m not pro-Bush and I’m not pro-Saddam

We need these fools to remain calm

George Bush, you’re looking like Zoolander

Trying to play tough for the camera

(from “In a World Gone Mad” )

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Green Day

Sieg Heil to the president gasbag

Bombs away is your PUNISHMENT

Pulverize the Eiffel towers

Who criticize your GOVERNMENT

(from “Holiday”)

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Ani DiFranco

keep the propaganda

keep each and every tv

that’s been trying to convince me

to participate

in some prep school punk’s plan to perpetuate retribution

perpetuate retribution....

(from “Self Evident”)

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John Mellencamp

So a new man in the White House

With a familiar name

Said he had some fresh ideas

But it’s worse now since he came

From Texas

To Washington

And he wants to fight with many

and he says it’s not for oil ...

(from “To Washington”)

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Zach de la Rocha

who let the cowboy on the saddle? He don’t know a missile from a gavel ... here it comes, the sound of terror from above

he flex his Texas twisted tongue

the poor lined up to kill in desert slums

(from “March of Death”)

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Rolling Stones

You call yourself a Christian

I call you a hypocrite

You call yourself a patriot

Well I think you’re full of ...

(from “Sweet Neocon”)