Spring 2003.
I was the opinion editor at a college newspaper, the Daily Sundial at CSU Northridge in the San Fernando Valley. We followed the news about the inevitable war minutely. I was writing lots of anti-Bush editorials and getting lots of hate mail from brainwashed Bush-drones. (And the best way to prove your point when arguing with these nutjobs is to print their letters.)
A few days after the initial invasion, after trying to figure out what was going on watching CNN in the newsroom, I wrote a song.
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There were several people on the Sundial staff who always called it Chicken Noodle News. It's a phrase I've heard before, but I never thought too much about it. But that week, we had CNN on all the time, and almost everybody was calling it Chicken Noodle News within a few days.
"So what's the latest on Chicken Noodle News?"
"Jesus! I can't believe how lame Chicken Noodle News is? Can we get the BBC in the newsroom or do we have to go to the Department conference room?"
"No, we haven't heard that. It wasn't on Chicken Noodle News."
So it was weird, as if the real name of the channel was Chicken Noodle News.
After a few days of this, I starting singing a little song about it, a little song that came out of nowhere.
Chicken Noodle News
Chicken Noodle News
Chicken Noodle News
Chicken Noodle News
Chicken Noodle News for breakfast
Chicken Noodle News for lunch
Chicken Noodle News for dinner
I love Chicken Noodle News a bunch
War doesn't kill civilians
Iraqi soldiers cannot fight
The way that things are going
We'll be in North Korea tomorrow night
And that's all I wrote. You're supposed to repeat Chicken Noodle News four more times. Feel free to add more verses to bring us up to date.