Dylan Republicans (American Spectator Article By Freeper)

American Spectator ^ | 6/20/05 | Patrick Hynes (freeper)

[crushkerry]

Pat's freeper screen name is Kerry Crusher. He is on leave from his job as a campaign consultant from a national GOP campaign firm, and is currently in charge of media and message development for the CATO Institute's Social Security Project.

He is also the proprietor of AnkleBitingPundits.com

[basil]

This is an enjoyable article. I love it when blue begins to turn to red!

[Red Badger]

In the recent interview of Bob Dylan in Rolling Stone(?) he said that he hated those hippie types. His farm was inundated with the freeloaders trying to commune with him. He quote,"wanted to set these people on fire!".......

[thoughtomator]

It's funny how many 60's protest songs are perfectly appropriate today to protest against the aging hippie generation that made them popular in the first place.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Bob Dylan just wanted (like the rest of us) to keep his own money.

[SittinYonder]

It's funny how many 60's protest songs are perfectly appropriate today to protest against the aging hippie generation that made them popular in the first place.

Does this mean that we're the hippies of the early 21st Century?

[skeeter]

It's funny how many 60's protest songs are perfectly appropriate today to protest against the aging hippie generation that made them popular in the first place.

My longtime goal has always been to live long enough to see those self-absorbed, self-important creeps repudiated, humiliated, mocked and badgered for the rest of their natural lives. It looks like I'll have my wish.

In spite of that it looks like the damage they caused is permanent.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Yes but we don't inhale.

[Red Badger]

In his auto-bio, he said he couldn't get away from the freaks. He didn't want to be the revolutionary icon that the leftist media was trying to portray him as. HE JUST WANTED TO WRITE SONGS! He even said that allthat imagry in his lyrics was just that! Pretty words on paper that made a good tune..........I remember my HS hippy friends were all agog over his every word. Dissecting it and projecting it onto their own ideals. If they only knew!.............

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Isn't this the first of two or three books he plans to write ?

[Red Badger]

did someone say, BADGERED?!!!......

http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com

[Red Badger]

I believe so......http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/_/id/6539707/bobdylan?pageid=rs.ArtistArticles&pageregion=mainRegion

[tflabo]

Next time around perhaps Minnie-land will turn blue.
Maybe the Cheese state neighbor will also turn a lovely shade of blue too. Time to liberate all of the heartland from the commie leftist libs.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I read a squib of Dylan's narrative on a national mag some months ago. I found it a bit disingenuous.

[eyespysomething]

Only no drum circles!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

I'm a folkie, myself. Some of those old protest songs work just as well on the leftist elites as anyone they were aimed at.


I was once on a political forum with people from all political stripes. One of the leftists got furious, when several of the conservatives mentioned liking Dylan. Apparently conservatives aren't supposed to like music that leftists like.

As for me, I like some of Dylan's songs, but I'd just as soon hear other people sing them. I mean, I'm really glad he wrote "Restless Farewell" -- one of my favorites -- but Dylan has no business singing a song with an octave jump in it, even if he is the writer.

"Neighborhood Bully," OTOH, is one of the most pro-Israel songs out there.

BTW, you do know that "The Big lake they call Gitche Gumee" is from Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald," not Dylan.

[GVnana]

Drum circles are evil.

[SamAdams76]

The Democrats are as much "the establishment" today as the Republicans were in the 1960s. In fact, more and insufferably so. Any "hippie" from the 60s who sports a Kerry button today has no credibility with me. They are a hypocrite. A sell-out.

All true hippies are either unaffiliated with a political party or maybe Libertarian.

[eyespysomething]

You know, it starts as a drum circle, next thing you know youv got a college.