Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier:
MOCKINGBIRD
An intelligence agency tries
To fill media outlets with spies:
With professional plants
And suborned sycophants
Who are feeding us nothing but lies.
From the archive
NOODNIKS
Lots of left-wing associations,
Lots of biased investigations,
Insane persons employed
Are what finally destroyed
Their self-satisfied reputations
(2018)
ENEMEDIA
When you’re constantly taking sides
With a narrative that divides,
When you won’t play it straight
As the Fourth Estate,
You’ve surrendered your bona fides.
(2018)
NEWS SURREAL
Mainstream media’s known to suffuse
Its reports with particular views:
With this bias abundant,
It’s absurdly redundant
To call what it offers “fake news.”
(2017)
INSIDE JOB
Having failed in a decades-long try,
An appreciative communist spy
Pays a due compliment
To our own President
For destroying the FBI.
(1998)
Last week’s limerick
CRABBY HOLIDAYS
“Since your viewpoints so often offend,
Our relationship now has to end:
You cannot come this year
To share holiday cheer,
And our invite we hereby rescind.”