Simon & Garfunkel - 7 O'Clock News / Silent Night Lyrics

I listen to this every Christmas since the first time I heard it. Very somber tune but as I heard it said once before, "Sometimes the most beautiful things are kind of melancholy." I love Simon and Garfunkel. They are staples in American music.

One of the ways you can detect the leftist bias in the news part is the way he emphasizes the word "AGAINST" in Nixon's speech about war protesters working against the U.S. as a signal that this is the opposite of what you should believe since the war protesters to him and to you are obviously working FOR U.S. interests in promoting a communist takeover in Vietnam because that is what you should want since America and its capitalist allies are all corrupt and the communists obviously just want to fix that. Actually, the one thing working AGAINST the U.S. was TREASON by Johnson & McNamara in refusing to INVADE and finish North Vietnam just like TRAITOR Truman refused to let MacArthur finish NK and discredit Mao. If you don't think so, then you are traitorous communist scum too. The only purpose of communism is redistribution of wealth to the redistributors. Communist idealists have to hire murderous thugs (e.g. Stalin, Sverdlov, Mao) because some people just insist on keeping their stuff. Those thugs, who have the guns, then get rid of capitalists and communist idealists (e.g. Trotsky, Lin Biao) alike to steal everything they can for their own luxury and use (avoiding direct personal ownership). The "right people" never get to do communism because they always inevitably end up dead too.

This is the early evening edition of the news.

In Washington, the standoff between House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell over the passed articles of impeachment against President Trump shows no signs of thawing. Pelosi has said that she will not send the articles to the Senate for an impeachment trial until she receives assurances that specific witnesses will be called.

In Los Angeles, ESPN college football reporter Ed Aschoff died on his birthday of pneumonia. He was 34.

In New York, presidential candidate and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that his campaign has severed ties with a third-party vendor that used call centers operated out of state prisons to phonebank on the billionaire's behalf.

In Texas, a 19-year-old man confessed to police that he killed his 23-year-old pregnant sister "because of family conflict," Police reports said that the perpetrator said the victim was "an embarrassment to her family and he stated it would be better off but she wasn't here."

In Korea the atmosphere is tense as North Korean officials warn of a "Christmas gift" to the U.S. if their ultimatum on a denuclearization deal isn't met. Experts believe that North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un plans to abandon diplomacy and denuclearization talks and possibly end an 18-month moratorium on ballistic missile tests. 

In Australia, firefighters are failing to contain bushfires that have consumed 5 million hectares of land across the country. The spread of the fires has been attributed to record low rainfall and record temperatures exacerbated by climate change, though Prime Minister Scott Morrison has refused to curb carbon emissions or offer federal aid to firefighters in the wake of the disaster.

That's the 7 O'Clock edition of the news, goodnight.

Brilliant and agree Josh Young.

Shit's more metal than Trans-Siberian Orchestra.

thanks phoebes, for making me go and discover all the versions <3

The radio announcer was none other than Charlie O'Donnell 8 years before "Wheel of Fortune"

This is honestly masterful. A sweet and soothing Christmas Carol contrasts the depressing news.

Lenny Bruce

Pamatuji.

As a kid did you ever wake up in the middle of night screaming for mom, wanting to die, asking your parents, "why did you make me this way?" This song is comforting to me, despite the fact, Paul Simon couldn't put on a good live show to save his life! Merry Christmas and God bless.

It's a Christmas song with news, I guess.

It was done in protest of the Vietnam War

It's the contrast, O child of the idiocracy; the contrast of the peaceful beauty of the song against the nightmare reality of what should not be.

Loved it from the first time I heard it. Amazing. So today.

Somebody should remix this with today’s news in it

@Josh Young This version of the song becomes more powerful with each passing year. (A Vietnam vet)

Phoebe Bridgers just did.

seven_curses Glad someone beat me to it. It’s so good.

I think Phoebe Bridgers did it

He did. Eminem's Darkness...

Damm that's a great song!!!