Lyric discussion by pinkeyswear 

Cover art for The Great Communicator lyrics by Ted Leo and the Pharmacists

They get detached from what's been goin' on They feed ya crap you can't keep growin' on They give ya stats that tell you nothin' at all 'bout who ya wanna be. Who you wanna be?

How very true of politicians. Also, Reagan was called the great communicator.

My thoughts on Reagan (not as an attack on pinkeyswear but on Reagan and the Bitburg incident): Reagan was brilliant he communicated too the vets and Jews and other Holocaust survivors and WW2 era folks as well as the politicians (not that I care what the politicians think) that he didn't care about them. Then he communicated quite well that the nazi soldiers buried at Bitburg (which had a large amount of Waffen-SS troops) were victims just as the people in the concentration camps. He also after visting Bitburg quite eloqently communicated that the soldiers at Bitburg were just simple soldiers...