Used to listen to my Carmina Burana CD while playing Quake (the first one) back in university. It was a great soundtrack for the game, both epic and foreboding simultaneously. Well, turns out Republicans are misusing it presently to fearmonger about the closing of Gitmo — and it freaking worked. The senate voted 90-6 against providing any funding for the close of Guantanamo Bay in the wake of the ad campaign. Rachel Maddow rightly ridicules this turn of events in the video below.
As much as O Fortuna has been used in popular culture, you’d think more people would at least have heard of Carmina Burana. I think some people have actually confused it in their minds over the years with another song that very much comes to my mind when I hear Dick Cheney speak: Ave Satani from the soundtrack to The Omen.
You associate a song titled “Hail Satan” in Latin, with Darth Cheney? Heh. Doesn’t seem like a stretch at all, actually. I might not believe in Satan, but I surely do believe Dick exists and is responsible for a great and terrible evil in this world.