Imagine, I’m becoming a Yoko Ono fan (She’s suing some crappy Creationists)
I never cared much for the song – nor for the deification of its Maker – but I still think ‘Imagine‘ deserved a kinder fate than to be raped and dismembered by Creationist salesmen.
So, for once I’m all with Yoko Ono, who is suing the Darwin deniers. It’s kind of funny that a woman who can’t sing and who has murdered a few songs in public herself has now become the champion of what many see as John Lennon’s anthem…
…but then again, history is the biggest & meanest irony machine:
NEW YORK — Yoko Ono is suing the producers of a movie that challenges the concept of Darwinian evolution, saying they used the song “Imagine” without her permission. Ono accuses the producers of “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed” of suggesting to viewers that those who guard John Lennon’s legacy somehow authorized or sponsored the film.
The producers of the film, which features Ben Stein challenging Darwinian theories that prevail in academic circles and suggesting that life could have emerged through intelligent design, said they used only “a very small portion of the song.”
“Based on the fair use doctrine, news commentators and film documentarians regularly use material in the same way we do,” Premise Media said in a statement. “Unbiased viewers of the film will see that the ‘Imagine’ clip was used as part of a social commentary in the exercise of free speech and freedom of inquiry.”
Unbiased viewers?
Let me state that I am not one of those. Neither unbiased nor a viewer of Bible belching shit like that. There’s not much worse than a bigot but one thing sure is and that’s a cowardly bigot – one who tries to hide his or her colours – and the peddlers of the Intelligent Design pipe dream are just seven day Creationists hiding behind four-syllable words.
In other words, they’re like the ‘I’ve got nothing against Jews, blacks, etcetera but…’ crowd. Still, it is kind of funny to see these types of bigots going for the free speech defence, which, to paraphrase, has become the first refuge that any scoundrel seeks.
To be fair, their other excuse, that they only used ‘a very small portion of the song’ is more consistent with both their practices and their convictions. Only using homeopathetically small kernels of the truth (if that) in any of their professed beliefs themselves, you could say that they have become very good at the cheater’s most beloved tactic: to use a bit of the truth to hide the big, fat lie they are trying to sell.
Anyway, if the Darwin bashers lose the case and are forced to steal some other dead singer’s song I would suggest that they look no further than that sweet song by Kirsty Maccol. It’s certainly more fitting than Lennon’s song with its ‘Imagine there’s no Heaven’ line.
The title of that Maccol song? Ah yes, here it is: ‘There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis…
…Just like you swore to me that you’d be true.
There’s a guy works down the chip shop swears he’s Elvis
But he’s a liar and I’m not sure about you’
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