May 8th, 2009 by Putnam

It looks like this little piggy screwed up a little bit, so I wanted to try to explain my thought process so that people understand.  In my swine flu song, there is a line that says, “stay away from Mexico”.   I didn’t mean to literally convey that as my opinion or advice.  The reason I put that in the video was that it was one of many points in the song where I was restating what the media is feeding us, and then my response.

I attempted to make several points throughout the song in that manner – in particular, really, was the fact that the media was giving the impression (as was the naming of the disease by the CDC) that it was being transmitted by pigs.  Frankly, I only believe a fraction of what I hear on the news as it is and this was just my way of gently pointing that out.

So, my most sincere apologies if I offended anyone at all by that line, as it was purely unintentional and I would never want to make anyone feel bad.