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Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind (Describes MSM, contrasts to Gospel)
New York Times ^ | 6/12/20 | Douglas Brinkley

Posted on 06/12/2020 12:38:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan

Why didn't more people pay attention to Little Richard’s gospel music?

Probably because gospel music is the music of good news and in these days there just isn’t any. Good news in today’s world is like a fugitive, treated like a hoodlum and put on the run. Castigated. All we see is good-for-nothing news. And we have to thank the media industry for that. It stirs people up. Gossip and dirty laundry. Dark news that depresses and horrifies you.

On the other hand, gospel news is exemplary. It can give you courage. You can pace your life accordingly, or try to, anyway. And you can do it with honor and principles. There are theories of truth in gospel but to most people it’s unimportant. Their lives are lived out too fast. Too many bad influences. Sex and politics and murder is the way to go if you want to get people’s attention. It excites us, that’s our problem.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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I'm not a huge Bob Dylan fan but when I read things he says, they impress me more and more.

The whole excerpt above is the sort of thing we never hear nowadays. And the part I bolded describes the MSM very well.

Liberals and leftists seem to love and practically worship Bob Dylan, but it's like they never even pay attention to what he says.

Or they don't understand or can't even understand.

1 posted on 06/12/2020 12:38:54 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: ifinnegan

The Left gets its energy from anger.


2 posted on 06/12/2020 12:50:05 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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Those leftists obviously never heard “Neighborhood Bully”, probably the most staunch song ever made in defense of Israel.


3 posted on 06/12/2020 12:51:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Bkmrk


4 posted on 06/12/2020 12:54:10 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: ifinnegan

If this was written by Bob Dylan why does the attribution say Douglas Brinkley?

BTW, I just read your excerpt, don’t want to go to the link. Because I’m not really interested in what mixed-up Boob Dylan thinks about anything anyway. Besides, I never go to the NYSlimes.


5 posted on 06/12/2020 1:07:29 PM PDT by Bullish (CNN is what happens when 8th graders run a cable network.)
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To: ifinnegan
To the left Dylan will always be the protest singer found on his first 2 albums. Alot of them abandoned him when he made 3 albums that centered on his conversion to Christianity. His music over the years has developed into so much more than that. Quite a few freepers (me included) are huge Dylan fans because his lyrics, while very deep and abstract, touch on universal themes that transcend politics.

Is he a closet conservative? Who knows- probably not. But he is also not a pathetic aging hipster spouting off hackneyed leftist platitudes a la David Crosby or Roger Watters.

6 posted on 06/12/2020 1:08:06 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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Great song BTW.


7 posted on 06/12/2020 1:09:10 PM PDT by Sir_Humphrey (Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people -Socrates)
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Loved Dylan from the first time— back in the 60’s—his songs started being played on the local rock station. Have the Blonde on Blonde album; sure wish I’d not let go of some earlier ones.
His words are real poetry, and I was really amazed, and happy, when he recently received a Noble prize for literature!


8 posted on 06/12/2020 1:14:48 PM PDT by milagro (There is no peace in appeasement!)
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“Those leftists obviously never heard “Neighborhood Bully”, probably the most staunch song ever made in defense of Israel.”

I hadn’t either. I’ve never been a bug Dylan fan. I did buy abs listen to Good As I Been To You.

That is a great album.


9 posted on 06/12/2020 1:21:30 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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Actually a very good interview with Bob Dylan. While I don’t claim to be a HUGE fan of his music, there is no question he is a great songwriter. In this interview he comes across a very sincere, at peace, and processing a certain wisdom about the world today.


10 posted on 06/12/2020 1:22:05 PM PDT by fidelis (Zonie and USAF Cold Warrior)
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Dylan’s earlier compositions were clearly the work of an intelligent,thoughtful guy.
11 posted on 06/12/2020 1:23:39 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Just Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election!)
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Infidels is a great album, especially “Jokerman”. Mark Knopfler produced it and played on it.


12 posted on 06/12/2020 1:28:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: milagro

Nobel Prize.


13 posted on 06/12/2020 1:33:18 PM PDT by arthurus (zont)
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To: ifinnegan

Try the album infidels. Lots to love.


14 posted on 06/12/2020 1:34:46 PM PDT by edwinland
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“Murder Most Foul”


15 posted on 06/12/2020 1:40:33 PM PDT by spokeshave (White Confederate statue kills black man......Another month of protests.... (HT to seawolf101))
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There’s a great 60 Minutes interview with Dylan by Ed Bradley where Dylan basically said the Left was upset with him because they wanted him to support their causes and he wouldn’t. He’s a closet conservative.


16 posted on 06/12/2020 1:52:04 PM PDT by MNnice
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I thought that was great too and that he really deserved the Nobel. Somebody once asked him about the “meaning” of one of his songs, and he said, “I dunno...the words just sounded good together and that’s what I wanted to say.“

So that’s a real poet. The words gave you a picture, an image, that had no political or other meaning but was his poetic vision. The poet’s vision is the world drawn verbally. So that’s why he deserved the Nobel..

I’m going to have to check out the new album.


17 posted on 06/12/2020 1:55:34 PM PDT by livius
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There’s a slow train comin’ around the bend...


18 posted on 06/12/2020 2:04:37 PM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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“It may be the devil or it may be the Lord.

“But you know you gotta serve somebody.”


19 posted on 06/12/2020 2:09:28 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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bttt


20 posted on 06/12/2020 2:38:28 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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