The song neatly describes the vacuous but vicious nonetheless media feeding frenzy over the VW  diesel "cheating" scandal.

What could be better than raking a car company over the coals for having tried to give its customers a better car as opposed to a government-compliant one?

Now the same finger-wagging is being directed at other car companies – among them Mercedes-Benz, Mazda and Honda. The accusation isn't "cheating" per se, but it amounts to the same thing.