Advertisement - story continues below
![]() Jill Sobule |
TRENDING: Biden's Green New Deal is increasing greenhouse gases
Jill Sobule, the singer who had a "lesbian-chic" hit with "I Kissed a Girl" in 1995, is now taking aim at Dick Cheney with a satirical song suggesting the vice president was hunting with a male companion as part of a homosexual love story.
Advertisement - story continues below
"I sorta took a Brokeback approach," said Sobule, referring to "Brokeback Mountain," the recent film about homosexual cowboys in love.
Sobule had her friend Robin Eaton actually sing the song, to make it more "manly." (Click here to listen to the song).
On her webpage, the singer makes it clear she is personally amused by the weekend shooting which left Cheney's friend Harry Whittington hospitalized after being peppered by the VP with birdshot.
Advertisement - story continues below
"There is so much in the news that leaves one feeling glum and glummer. But why does the story about Cheney's hunting incident give me so much pleasure?" she notes.
Some of the lyrics of the song, which concludes with the sound of a gun blast, include:
Advertisement - story continues below
Harry Whittington, you better run, I'm counting up to 5
Harry Whittington, what have you done, you shouldn't have told the wife.We've been coming here for 30 years
They thought it was for doves
But it was for love
Sweet, sweet love
Advertisement - story continues below
Online reaction from those who have heard the song runs the gamut from high praise to severe derision:
Sobule has no love loss for the Bush administration, as she also wrote another song suggesting President Bush would have done the country a favor if he remained in his baseball management career, instead of getting into politics:
If George had stayed in baseball, and really lived his dream
Became the great commissioner; we wouldn't be in this mess
God bless the old U.S.,Put him in the Hall of Fame
Out of the house of shame
Get George Bush out of the White House and
Put him in the Hall of Fame
Related special offers:
You wanted it: Michael Moore 'hunted down'
"Armed Response: A Comprehensive Guide to Using Firearms for Self-Defense"
Previous stories:
Interview with the vice president
Man who laughed at Cheney gets shot hours later