No. 80: Andrew WK, “McLaughlin Groove”  Mike Barthel / December
8, 2008  Who would have thought, back in March, that it would
seem plausible to take down the right wing through mockery
rather than righteous indignation? Andrew WK, of course. He took
an exchange from The McLaughlin Group in which loudmouthed
conservative talk-show-host John McLaughlin speculated on the
possibility of John McCain’s accidental death (while misquoting
Carl Sandburg and predicting that “the next man on the moon will
be Chinese”) and turned it into an anthemic demonstration of how
anything sounds true when it’s yelled loudly enough.  Still, it
seemed like a novelty song. But then John McCain was actually
nominated, and then John McCain nominated Sarah Palin, and all
of a sudden the idea of simply amplifying the excesses of the
conservative movement and letting people draw their own
conclusions seemed like a valid political strategy rather than a
joke. “McLaughlin Groove” takes concrete evidence of the
Republican Party eating itself