Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Dr. Eckleburg
If Bob was protesting the war its not something that I have ever read in the many books about him.
Some of his early songs could be viewed as against the Viet Nam war but none are specifically about the war-—to my knowledge.
Masters of War perhaps, but I think that is about war in general......

Check out this article—you may or may not agree with it.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Protected/Articles/000/000/012/727xwxao.asp?pg=2

Heres another interetesting look at Dylan and Viet Nam—
worth a look.

http://www.rightwingbob.com/item/reason586.htm

102 posted on 10/13/2009 6:26:04 PM PDT by scott says
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 101 | View Replies ]


To: scott says
Before his accident Dylan was the face and voice of the counter culture, and at that time he didn't mind the title. Don't believe all the revisionism. His songs fueled the '60's and he liked his position of balladeer to the dawning rebellion. He cultivated it.

After his accident in 1966 and his year-long recuperation he drew inward and became more reclusive, eventually resenting the role of moral arbiter for his generation and the next one.

103 posted on 10/13/2009 9:25:49 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies ]

To: scott says
This kind of revisionism is rampant. The other day I heard that "Harvard-educated" fool, Rachel Maddow, call the 1968 protests in Daley's Chicago "the student riots."

lol. What an idiot. There were student riots in France. In Chicago in 1968 it was a "police riot" where the Chicago cops over-reacted and beat the heck out of dozens of students. A government commission found the city, police force and Mayor Daley were responsible for the violence, and so dubbed the disturbances "The Chicago Police Riots."

History is written (and rewritten) by the the last man standing.

105 posted on 10/13/2009 9:47:20 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 102 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson