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Matthew Yglesias is a fellow at the Center for American Progress. His first book, with the working title Heads in the Sand: Iraq and the Strange Death of Liberal Internationalism, scheduled to be published next spring by John Wiley and co., deals with the Democratic Party's struggle to find a post-9/11 foreign policy, focusing primarily on the rise and (hopefully) fall of the liberal hawk movement.

Previously, he was a staff writer at The American Prospect and an Associate Editor at TPM Media, where he contributed to the group blogs Tapped and TPMCafe. His main blog, now at The Atlantic, has existed in various forms since the dark ages of the blogosphere in January 2002.

His writing has appeared in The Guardian, Slate, The New Republic, and The Washington Monthly, and he is a regular on BloggingHeads.tv and makes the occasional radio or television appearance.

Desperately out of touch with the American mainstream, Yglesias was born and raised in Manhattan and studied philosophy at Harvard where he was editor in chief of The Harvard Independent, a campus alternative weekly.

His latest writings can be found on the Matthew Yglesias blog.

Captain Amnesty Lyrics

By Matthew Yglesias
Feb 11 2008, 12:42 PM ET Comment

Read JB went the extra mile and wrote the lyrics to "Captain Amnesty" that I've been looking for. Here's the original lyrics for the sake of comparison. And here at the new ones (spelling "oi" as "oy" is deliberate):

CAPTAIN AMNESTY

Artist: Anti-John

Album: A New Kind of Party?



A!



M!



N!



E!



S!



T!



Y!



He says that in the GOP, he's spent his fucking life

but his stance on immigration’s causing intra-party strife

he doesn’t want to build a wall so wetbacks can’t come here

and badmouths his own party just to make the left wing cheer



A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

His name is "Captain Amnesty" and Mexicans don’t mind

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

McCain’s a closet liberal and he’ll be one till he dies

Oh, oh, oh



You ever seen a “right-winger” who had any prayer

Of getting liberal journalists to praise him on the air?

He says he learned his lesson when his bill went down the tubes

In reality he still thinks that we’re just a bunch of fuckin’ rubes



A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

His name is "Captain Amnesty" and Mexicans don’t mind

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

He's amnesty incarnate--he’ll be that till he…



You know he just can't see

(Oy!*** Oy! Oy! Oy!)

He hurts the GOP!

(Oy! Oy! Oy! Oy!)

I don't wanna be

(Oy! Oy! Oy! Oy!)

Fighting, let's find a new nominee!

New nominee, new nominee, nominee



Let's go!

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

His name is "Captain Amnesty" and Mexicans don’t mind

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

McCain’s a closet liberal and he’ll be one till he dies

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

Until he dies

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

until he dies

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

until he dies

A-M-N-E-S-T-Y

until he dies

Dies!



Now all we need is for someone to make an actual "Captian Amnesty" recording to be unleashed onto the internet as an MP3 hit.
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