‘Moscow Mitch’ Is Now a ‘Tequila’-Like Song, Courtesy of Ben Folds (Video)

Thanks to Ben Folds, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now has an asterisk beside his name in the annals of music history… and not in a good way. During a performance Thursday at New York’s Pier 17, the singer-songwriter paid homage to the Kentucky Republican by setting his new nickname, “Moscow Mitch” to music. “It’s going to be an instrumental piece here like the song ‘Tequila.’ They just go ‘Tequila!'” Folds told the audience, which you can see in the video above. Also Read: Jon Stewart Joins Stephen Colbert at the Desk to Put Mitch McConnell in His Shell - Er, Place (Video) “For this song, what I want to do is put a little cool stutter in it, like, you know, ‘My-my-my-my-my-my Sharona,’ That kind of thing, right? So, what we’ll do is, we’ll go, ‘Mah-mah-mah-Moscow Mitch.'” Folds added, “I’m going to show him how good his song really is.” Joe Scarborough coined the nickname for McConnell on “Morning Joe” last week following his move to block two election security bills despite warnings from the U.S. intelligence community that Russia (and other countries) were likely to attempt to interfere in the 2020 elections. Scarborough, a former GOP congressman, later called...