Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Marsh Family sings 'Bile and Lies' about JD Vance for Tuneful Tuesday

I promised a musical entry for Tuneful Tuesday, so I'm sharing "Bile and Lies" - Marsh Family parody of The Eagles "Lyin' Eyes" about JD Vance views on Henry Nowak.

“Lyin’ Eyes” was written by Don Henley and Glenn Frey, released by California’s rock legends The Eagles in 1975. It was apparently inspired by their visions of many beautiful younger women with older husbands in Los Angeles, who they imagined leading double lives and lying and cheating. So it’s a story about moral reprobates, hypocrisy, double standards, and virtual self-prostitution, which made it perfect to adapt to address J.D. Vance’s latest foray into European politics.
This reads like another take on the situation that inspired "Little Girls" by Oingo Boingo, which I featured in An attack ad and drink for today's special Senate election in Alabama nine years ago. Back to the Marsh Family.
Plenty of muck-stirrers had already sought to whip up anger and outrage in the wake of the tragic murder of Henry Nowak, and the horrendous footage and troubling backstory. These included Nigel Farage, Tommy Robinson, Rupert Lowe, and Elon Musk. But Vance – who had met several of the more disturbing UK ‘politicians’ last summer – in his inimitable style took things to a new level.

Vance showed wanton disregard for the grieving Nowak family’s own stated request: “We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred, or tension.” He shared footage of the eighteen-year-old’s ghastly final moments, let down by mistakes by British police officers under huge stress, and crassly linked it to fears about migration, civilisational collapse, hatred, invasion and anger. It was a sick message that has been amplified on Twitter/X and, at point of writing, has over 10m views.
We didn’t even have time to get into the hypocrisy of casting stones across the Atlantic by this administration or this chameleon. But the song’s intended to express that the behaviours, ideologies and values that Vance and his ilk embody, particularly in this tragic moment, are anathema to most in the UK, and we suspect most Europeans. They are like a cancerous cell in the tissue of what we understand being ‘civilised’ means, and they are threatening to metastasise.
"This chameleon" — tell us how you really feel about JD Vance!

I'm going to turn the rest of this post into a brief retrospective of a top share of a Marsh Family song post on Instagram. Follow over the jump.


Bruce Springsteen, Billy Bragg, and the Marsh Family sing about Minneapolis, Minnesota earned 3 likes (most for the month of January 2026) and 2 comments (tied for most during the month) during January 2026 and 1 like and 1 comment on February 1st as a tiebreaker on 24 views, a total of 4 likes (tied for third most for the year) and 3 comments (second most for the year) on Instagram during the 15th year of Crazy Eddie's Motie News.

I might post another song parody tomorrow for Wayback Wednesday, as Randy Rainbow hinted at one later today. Stay tuned.

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