Eminem ambushes Bush, as promised

In 2002, publisher Al Giordano named Marshall Mathers, also known as Eminem, the Narco News Journalist-of-the-Year.  Days before the election, Mathers leads the U.S. victims of the Bush administration to a rebellion by ballot, in a new video now playing (possibly edited) on MTV.  The video, titled "Mosh," is the #1 most popular according to MTV.com. Two years ago this August Giordano wrote about Mathers:

Singing of himself as "Slim Shady," as is his trademark, in the third person, he raps:

Yeah the man's back
With a plan to ambush this Bush administration,
Mush the Senate's face in and push this generation,
Of kids to stand and fight for the right to say something you might not like…

And right at the two-minute warning, in collaboration with Ian Inaba of the Guerilla News Network (who initiated and directed the video), Mathers has done just that: ambush this Bush administration.

The emotionally powerful and sometimes hilarious animated video starts with 9/11, a wall of notes and newspaper headlines of the outrages of the past four years (plus the allegation "Bush Knew") and then moves on to Eminem rapping and leading a huge crowd.

Individuals who join this revolutionary mass include a Black man roughed up by police, a white soldier re-activated for Iraq, and a Latina evicted from her apartment.  They storm the gates of power and then line up to vote, losing the physical power of their numbers and flexing electoral power.

Even as this scene is shown, Mathers intones: "In these closing statements, if they argue, let us beg to differ."  This reporter hasn't seen the final thirty seconds of the video (dial-up internet connection and no cable) but with just those words, the threat is clear, not merely implied.  Eminem's animated army will vote Bush out of office, and if they rig the vote to keep him in, force him out with the power of physical numbers.  Even defending the election isn't the end of it.  Another line in the song is "No more blood for oil, we got our battles to fight on our own soil."

A new anthem for dumping Bush, speaking the truth, and uniting to fight for control over our lives is number one on music television.

Anthony Lappé of GNN reports on the video and its release.  Pepe Escobar of Asia Times  (linked to by Guerilla News) gives further description.

When Narco News' Giordano names someone a journalist of the year, watch that person... and look for a network of amazing allies to spring up (from nowhere?) to swing these hammers that shake the world a little, like Guerilla number 2 Ian Inaba and the rest of the folks at GNN.

The bad news: White America still belongs to Bush.