Tuesday, July 20, 2010
The Economy Get Merle to the Greek
Posted by Bruce Barry on Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:41 PM
Nashville's own Merle Hazard, the troubadour of economic travail, has a new song about the Greek debt crisis. Snippets of the video, shot appropriately enough at the Parthenon, were featured in a piece about Greece's fiscal austerity that aired on last night's PBS NewsHour.
NewsHour economics correspondent Paul Solman blogged about Merle's new tune, which is actually the product of a collaboration of sorts between Merle and Solman:
Merle went more than the extra kilometer on this one, and came back with an opus so extravagant it could have formed the basis of a NewsHour piece all by itself. He assembled his very own Greek band; took online Greek dance lessons to make the choreography more authentic; and shot the whole thing in front of the full-scale replica of the Parthenon that happens to be in his home town of Nashville.
And since Merle is a personal friend of mine, I do need to state for the record that I am not the commenter "Bruce" on Solman's blog who spews: "The inclusion of that ridiculous performance by 'Merle Hazard' in Solman’s piece on Greek debt this evening represents terrible taste and poor judgment on the part of the NewsHour....If Paul and his staff is so fond of this guy, let THEM spend time with him — but don’t foist him on us." It ain't me, Merle.
Comments (0)