These are some lyrics from a song by Joan Jett called "Riddles." She goes on to quote Rummy and Chimpy. I don't have the full lyrics or the album yet (and I emphasize the word, "yet"), but here is a snippet of an article:
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"ON ‘SINNER,’ JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS’ first original studio album in more than a decade, Jett offers a record on her own Blackheart label to musically tackle politics head-on for the first time.
The opening track, "Riddles," pokes fun at politicians who can’t speak the truth, including a stab at the current Commander in Chief:
"Clear skies baby/Healthy forests/No Child Left Behind/Wake up people/Big Brother is watchin’ you/They’re takin’ all your rights away/Don’t claim that you represent me cause/I don’t believe a word that ya say."
Jett stresses she’s not trying to calling anyone a "moron" with the song, but rather she’s bashing the political institution itself.
But she does add the famous Donald Rumsfeld quote "there are known unknowns and unknown unknowns" to exemplify the "Riddles" title, and she reinforces the point with the most infamous Bushism at the end of the song: "There’s an old saying in Tennessee … that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again." "
and a link to the article with some more about it:
http://joanjettbadrep.com/cgi-bin/fullStory.cgi?archive=200606&story=20060624-01southernvoice.htm
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