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Posted on 12/04/2003 2:29:15 PM PST by vladog
Rolling Stone magazine is reporting that popular musicians are uniting to "oust Bush." According to the article, Bruce Springsteen, no stranger to anti-establishment and anti-American acts, told a crowd, "shout a little louder if you want the president impeached." John Cougar Mellencamp is declaring on his web site that America has "been lied to and terrorized by our own government, and it is time to take action." A number of other musicians, including Don Henley, James Taylor, Jethro Tull, Moby, NOFX, Green Day, Offspring, and Willie Nelson were cited among the rebels without a clue.
Natalie Maines of the infamous Bush-bashing, skin-baring, pseudo-apologizing Dixie Chicks was quoted in the Rolling stone piece as remarking on her recent political involvement: "I had gotten too comfortable in my life." I think she is right about that, though not in the way she means.
When people or a society in general gets too affluent or comfortable, they begin to be able to afford nutty and counterproductive ideas. (Larry Burkett describes this phenomenon brilliantly in his book Whatever Happened to the American Dream). When necessity and responsibility aren't there to force you to make wise, responsible decisions, you can afford to become indulgent and sloppy in your attitudes.
Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately), most of us can't afford to be dumb as a rock, or dumb as a rocker. We don't have money to pay amoral lawyers to get us out of trouble when we do something really stupid. We average folks can't afford to take off a few days from work to go join a peace march or urinate on a few flags. Most of us can't afford to go live in another country (France?) if we screw this one up beyond hope. We're also usually more in touch with an absolute, transcendent moral center that would not allow us to fool ourselves into thinking our acts of lunacy were noble.
Most other conservatives and I certainly do not begrudge rockers and country stars the right to speak their mind (what little of it is actually being exercised) and try to convince others to agree with them. But they do need to be grown-up enough not to whine and pout when other, more mature people disagree with them. They need to be intellectually honest and stop throwing around the "censorship" whip, or at least crack a book (other than the Communist Manifesto, the quotations of Chairman Mao, or Rolling Stone) and learn that censorship is performed with force by governments to silence dissent, not when citizens or privately owned businesses refuse to listen to their Marxist, infantile drivel.
No, what those of us who disagree need to do is start voting with our wallets. I've been a fan of Don Henley's music since the Eagles and even now, but he'll not get another dime out of me, as long as he's working to undermine the values I cherish in America. I plan to disagree not only with my voice, but also with my keyboard and my cash.
A lot of average, everyday people using their voices got CBS to cancel the revisionist, hatchet-job known as "The Reagans" and relegate it to Showtime, where only a handful of Leftists would see it. Common folk speaking their minds (to the tune of 300 calls per hour) also got Abercrombie & Fitch to pull their sexualized and semi-pornographic 2003 Christmas Field Guide from its stores. Good people are waking up to the fact that they are NOT powerless, that they CAN make a difference, that they DON'T just have to sit there and take it when rich liberals malign their values.
A lot of everyday Americans can put these Hollywood and recording industry rocks in their place and reveal them for the spoiled crybabies they are. I plan to be one of those Americans who will "out" the "ousters" for the Left-wing socialists they are. I plan to do it by striking at the very heart of their being—which they keep in their wallets.
Yeah, Norah Jones. That`s another winner."Say, let me sing like Edie Brickell and rip of the Charlie Brown Christmas song and name it "Don`t know why". I don`t know who in their right mind would accept a Grammy nowdays. It`s more like an insult considering who`s won that thing in the past. "You suck just like so and so, so heeeere`s your award!"
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These guys are killing me! This is a quote from John "USA" Mellenhead, I mean Cougar, I mean Mellencamp??? Say what? Is everyone turning into Barbara Streisand now? Wow John, I didn`t know our own government brought down the WTC. Yeah, maybe we gave those guys who bombed it the first time those Iraqi passports. *whew* Let`s hope it never comes down to burning to death 81 people for practicing their 2nd amendment right, or kidnapping a kid at gunpoint to send back to a ruthless tyrant after his mother gave her life so he could live in freedom.
Kid Rock won't be joining the music industry's anti-war movement.
"Why is everybody trying to stop the war? George Bush ain't been saying, 'You all, make shitty records.' Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whisky and wine. [Musicians] ought to stay out of it."
But it doesn't take much nudging to hear the Kid's policy analysis. "We got to kill that mother-[bleeper] Saddam," he says. "Slit his throat. Kill him and the guy in North Korea."
My respect for Kid Rock grew immensely after reading this...He has also made at least one USO tour, Afghanistan, I believe.
My father figures that in the 1970's, New Jersey's pot smoking hippies were listening to a local boy for the first time. Since pot will make a cat caught in a hay baler sound "awesome" to the smoker, they had to know who this "awesome dude" was.
Told the guy's name was Springsteen, the potheads thought, "Whoa, Springsteen...That's like Shakespere or something", and the whole damn hollow legend was born.
Ain't that the truth.
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