YouTube Removes Eric Metaxas’ Biden Parody Video

Yes, due to a copyright claim, the awful “Biden Did You Know?” parody is gone from YouTube. The video featured just about all of the false conspiracy theories about voter fraud making the rounds.

You knew this was coming. I am surprised it took so long.

I emailed Pentatonix yesterday and asked them for comment about being featured in the video. Metaxas used the group singing, Mary, Did You Know? in his parody presumably without their permission. I have not heard from their publicist and don’t know if that email had anything to do with the copyright claim.

In any case, get ready for the persecution cries.

No more will you see this at that link:

21 thoughts on “YouTube Removes Eric Metaxas’ Biden Parody Video”

  2. It has always been a group much bigger than just a basket of deplorables- it’s more like a “Big Top” three ring circus of Horribles. A preponderance of artists have refused to allow their musical creations to be profaned by the touch of Trump rot. Petty side show barkers and pitch men like Metaxas just fill in the creepy Midway of Trumpy Treason Circus & Pardon Factory.

  3. Generally, parodies are exempt from copyright infringement (unless there is a commercial aspect – ex. Weird Al’s parodies). I doubt Metaxas was making money (at least not directly) from the video.

  4. Never saw it. I can only guess how bad it was.

    Jonathan V. Last at The Bulwark has a takeoff on Rick Wilson’s Everything Trump Touches Dies today, cataloguing the dismal fates of luminaries ranging from Rex Tillerson to Mike Flynn following their allegiance to Trump.

    Metaxas isn’t mentioned (to be fair, there are far too many horribles to list them all), but he’s one of the more unsympathetic toadies and his choice to swear fealty to President Pussygrabber means he will never be taken seriously again. At 57, he had a decent future ahead of him. Instead, he’s just another Bozo on the Trump bus, a deadender and a clown.

    If nothing else, Trump’s horrific reign has revealed what some people we might have thought we knew are actually made of. It wasn’t pretty, but it was a public service, I guess.

    1. He *was* listed on this list: “All They Lost Was Their Souls.” That groups was defined as follows.

      “As you get further down the list there are a bunch of people from Trump’s orbit who didn’t go to jail or lose their jobs, but who marked themselves forever as frauds, clowns, and worse. These are people who, no matter what, will have their Trump days at the top of their Wikipedia page, for forever.”

      1. There is always Wingnut Welfare, which provides a comfortable income for those who should otherwise be shunned. You know, the Seb Gorkas and the Stephen Millers. For them there’s Newsmax and OAN.

        Sure, you have to debase yourself every day, selling gold coins and useless “supplements”. But it beats working.

        1. Yeah, we have to remember that 74 million Americans still voted for Trump, many of them enthusiastically, after four years of this clown running the show, and many still believe he’s been the best, most effective American president in living memory.

          The Trump Train may be going nowhere, but people are still willing to fork out hard cash for the ride.

          1. In 2016 we learned that there are people in this country who not only disagree with us, but use a whole different dictionary. Their worldview is alien to that of traditional voters. There’s Democrats, there’s Republicans, and then there’s this weird third group we mostly overlooked. And their concept of reality doesn’t jibe with anything we know.

            I have to think that the Jordans and Gaetzes know exactly what’s going on, and exploit this third group, some of whom are basically orcs, because it enlarges the pool of voters they can use. The Jordans and Gaetzes know damned well Trump lost decisively, and that Biden is going to be the president. But they can use the orcs to swell their numbers.

            The problem is, they’re still orcs.

        2. Yeah, we have to remember that 74 million Americans still voted for Trump, many of them enthusiastically, after four years of this clown running the show, and many still believe he’s been the best, most effective American president in living memory.

          The Trump Train may be going nowhere, but people are still willing to fork out hard cash for the ride.

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