Our condolences to involuntary time traveler Phil Connors, but political activist Diran Lyons has a rather rude awakening for you. <p> The “Groundhog Day Remix" is the latest viral vid bait to spring from Lyons’ <a href="https://lyonspotter.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">news-saturated</a> skull.  </p> <p> He told HOH inserting former Vice President Dick Cheney’s latest pronouncements about the war on terror into the nightmarish scenario was all about purging himself of mounting frustration.  </p> <p> “Cheney's recent comments in the media about military spending, Syria and Iraq began to irritate me … I felt somewhat like Murray and the clock radio, constantly being subjected to views on foreign policy that I find disagreeable,” Lyons said. When he sat down last month to revisit the iconic flick — something he says he and his family do “at least once a year together” — the wheels started turning and, voila, another custom tailored clip was set in motion.  </p> <p> His most widely perused effort to date (940,000-plus views and counting) has to be the one wherein President Barack Obama choppily utters every last combative word of Jay-Z’s rap anthem, “99 Problems.”  </p> <iframe width="445" height="250" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/2C22wBf2h5k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""/> <p> That social media gem took roughly half a year to orchestrate, including weeks of extensive research (“[It] took 6 months to find all the words,” he said) and several days of careful massaging. Not that Lyons minds hunting for new material.  </p> <p> “I do the remixes because I love the process, and I think it encourages people who see the videos to think, ‘Hey, I could do something like that,’” he said. “So in some sense it helps foster production/discourse about issues that are important.”  </p> <p> Forthcoming attempts at spinning out finely tuned click-bait are expected to cover a few causes (environmental issues, health care) currently on his mind. But he’s also hyper-focused on who will inhabit the White House after 44.  </p> <p> Hence the reasons Lyons said he is already hoarding all the Hillary Rodham Clinton and Jeb Bush footage his hard drive can hold.  </p> <p> “My hope is that everything aligns just right and that I can do a remix that features both for 2016!” he said.</p></body>
