"IT's SICK AND GETTING SICKER..."
Posted on 04/12/2013 7:09:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
He’s a country pu$$y. Nice wife, though...kid uglier than a bag of dirt.
Brad Paisley = Justin Bieber with a cowboy hat. Loser...
It must be pretty bad if both the left and the right think it sucks.......
Now excuse me, I have go play that knock-out game.
I like Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy’s performance of Ebony and Ivory for a racial harmony song!
From Jonah Goldberg:
EXCERPT:
I can’t really second-guess the music critics. It is not a great song from what I can tell. Though is it really the “worst song ever,” as several critics have said? It seems to me that “Who Put the Bomp (In the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp)” is catchier but substantively less redeeming.
Which is to say that Paisley — with an accompaniment from legendary rapper LL Cool J — is striving for something important. The song is a ballad about a white Southerner trying to reconcile his Southern pride and his rejection of racism. It begins with a scene where a black barista at Starbucks takes offense at the Confederate flag on the white narrator’s shirt. “To the man that waited on me at the Starbucks down on Main, I hope you understand/When I put on that T-shirt, the only thing I meant to say is I’m a Skynyrd fan.”
Paisley defends the song as an effort to — you guessed it — start a conversation. Personally, I think art that has to be defended on conversation-starting grounds probably isn’t art. Conversely, I’m inclined to think that any song with Paisley’s message would be denounced and ridiculed. Right or wrong, letting the South off the hook for its racial sins is not something that interests many of Paisley’s critics. The fact that Paisley (and LL Cool J) made the critics’ job so much easier doesn’t change that.
Something similar can be said about the reception to Rand Paul’s appearance at Howard University this week. Here, Paul did exactly the right thing by making his case to a politically unsympathetic audience of minorities. Though, at one point, he miscalculated a bit in an exchange where he assumed his audience didn’t know that black civil rights pioneers — including the founders of the NAACP — were mostly Republicans. Howard, one of the nation’s premier historically black colleges, is one of the few universities where the average student probably would know that stuff.
Much of the criticism of Paul centered on speculation about his motives. He’s just trying to soften his image! He’s using the audience as a prop! To which the only intellectually honest rejoinder is: Maybe he is! Isn’t that what politicians do?
Both Paul and Paisley are doing exactly what liberal politicians, civil rights activists and editorial boards have been demanding for decades. Paisley contributed his best effort for a “frank dialogue.” Paul reached out to minorities, engaged in the conversation and didn’t take blacks for granted. No one should be shocked that neither effort settled anything. That’s how conversations are supposed to work, but not, apparently, the kinds of conversations the conversation-starters have in mind.
A+ on your post.
You are black and I am white
You are blind as a bat, and I have sight
Side by Side, you are my amigo, Negro
Let’s not fiiiiiiight.
I really like Brad Paisley and have since his song He Didn’t Have To Be. To equate him with Justin Bieber really is an insult.
No, this isn't "Kumbaya" - too much real in this song - flaws exposed ... a tentative reaching out ...Liberals will hate this song.
A liberal song would carry the delusion that all problems are solved and we love each other ... no flaws, no work involved, nothing ugly or untoward... just unicorns and purple skies forever... holding hands - being idiots...
“Anti-racism” is and has always been a fraud, its always been nothing more than anti-white, racism if you will.
Life is easier when you live White Guilt Free.
“...he felt he had to defend wearing a T-shirt celebrating the country band Alabama...”
Why did he feel the need to “defend” wearing a t-shirt?
That’s how the libs start so many of these types of fights...by asking/requiring/urging/demanding someone “defend” something. That’s where they get a foothold.
Screw a defense. Just smile, turn your back on them, and walk away. Libs hate to be ignored.
Why do people believe that the left (or even some elements of the right) are interested in a a post racial America or racial reconciliation? Where would politicians and activists be if we didn’t have race-baiting as a political tool?
But it’s not.
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