[PJ-Comix]

So the Today show is now giving lots of free publicity to a singer who glorifies the terrorists. That should make the relatives of the 9-11 victims happy. < /sarcasm>

[Leper Messiah]

Though I think Steve Earle could find better subject matter, I don't see this as glorifying Johhny Walker or the Taliban.

Many song writers write about things with which they disagree and many people see what they want in the lyrics.

I recall a few short years ago Tipper Gore and her PMRC friends saw MANY things that were not there in assorted songs.

[INSENSITIVE GUY]

What should be"blacklisted"are teachers who brainwash children.Children should turn in their names.

[bok]

Jihad Johnny (Set to the tune of Guitar Town by Steve Earle)

Hey pretty baby are you ready for me i'm a muslin convert jihad fighter from californay.

So man i'm going off to fight for Al-Queda and leave these united states behind.

I hate America and no yokel local gonna tell me what i can't do. Me and the boys gonna go fight in Afghanistan.


Nothing ever happened around my home town and i was bored and so i heard a muslim voice and i went down the lost al-queda highway.

Everybody told me you can't get too far on 1,000 dollars a and a worn koran.

Hey pretty baby now i'm in Afganistan and wake up in the middle of the night i wouldn't get out of here cause i'm fightin' for allah now.

Well i'm off to fight the Americans now.

I got an AK-47 and i'm fightin' like hell.

Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault they say i ain't no traitor since i went to Al-Queda town.

They say people wanna hang me bad and i'm just a kid who didn't know any better.

Back in californay gonna be out in 20 that's what they say, i get cable tv and i'm still around causing the united states america hell.

[GoreIsLove]

The Rolling Stones sang a song called "Midnight Rambler" which is a first person narrative about Jack the Ripper. Does that mean the Rolling Stones support Jack the Ripper and homicidal murderers as a general rule?

[Dane]

So the Today show is now giving lots of free publicity to a singer who glorifies the terrorists. That should make the relatives of the 9-11 victims happy. < /sarcasm>

This is not about keeping the victims of 9/11 happy, this is about keeping the self serving Matt and Katy happy.

[RightOnline]

Hmmm........"Today Show"..................OOOOOHHH yeah, those drooling, butt-stained commies. They still on the air? Still showing crappy cartoons? Has Katie ever gotten that scope out of her behind?

Not that I care, but I'm just askin'.......

[CaliforniaOkie]

Greta had him on last night on "On the Record", on FOX she was faugning all over him. Let him play the entire song.

[TN4Liberty]

I think this is interesting...

Earle: "Well sure it is. And, and I don't get played on that many mainstream radio stations any way and I haven't in a long time and I've made that choice. I get played more on public radio stations than I do anyplace else. "

Your tax dollars at work, folks.

[GSWarrior]

This is too bad. I always thought that Steve Earle was sort of a 'good ol' boy.'

[rockfish59]

Earle is a bleeding heart, lib.
They should send all the child molesters and killers they release to live with him!
Bet he'd change his tune then!

[Selara]

Memo to self: Go to Wal-Mart and buy Toby Keith's, "UNLEASHED"..tomorrow.

[Mr. Wright]

Looks like it is time to start a list (on Freeper) of all of the sponsor's of this liberal "trash TV" with Matt and Katie and to start a "national boycott" off all of the products!

[PsyOp]

"So the Today show is now giving lots of free publicity to a singer who glorifies the terrorists."

Why not? They carried the water for a president that cozied up to terrorists around the world while hobbling our military. Just more of the same.

I think the main reason they are now shunning Toby Kieth is that he committed the cardinal sin of calling fellow liberal journalist a "liar". They really hate that. Otherwise, they would have brought him in so they could ridicule the song as being excessively jingoistic.

[auggy]

My conclusion ,which I had before I read this post, is the Liberals and Media dispise this country and all that it stands for. Is there anyone out there that thinks differently? They are nothing more than Communists, with a capitol C. I dispise them.

[pankot]

What do you expect from Katie Crap and Matt Liar?

[bok]

REVISED

Jihad Johnny (Set to the tune of Guitar Town by Steve Earle)

Hey pretty baby are you ready for me
It's your expat american muslin convert jihad fighter from californay
I'm just out from frisco headed for the land of allah
There is FBI agents all around no local yokel gonna tell me that i can't go fight for the jihad

Cause me and the boys from miles around are going to the land of allah and join up with al queda

Nothing ever happened around my home town and i was bored So i heard this muslim voice call and i went down the lost al-queda highway.

Everybody around told me you can't get too far on 1,000 dollars and a worn koran

I'm a brand new man now with my new found religious beliefs


Hey pretty baby now i'm in Afganistan and i wake up in the middle of the night i wouldn't get out of here cause i'm fightin' for allah now

Well i'm fightin' like hell against the Americans with my muslim brothers

I got an AK-47 and i'm fightin' for allah and new country now.

Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault they say i ain't no traitor since i went to Al-Queda town

They say people wanna hang me bad and i'm just a kid who didn't know any better

Johnny went on his jihad against America and when he got back he was treated like a golden child from californay

Back in californay gonna be out in 20 that's what they say i get cable tv and i'm still alive

Mike Spann fightin' for the red white and blue died in that hellish prison in afghanistan

Hey steve earle boy you sure do love it here in the land of infidels
Your political causes are as misguided as your song about johnny boy

[goldstategop]

Katie Couric IS the affable Eva Braun. I guess Ann will never be invited on her show again. The Today liberals blacklisted Toby Keith as he's politically incorrect. But a singer glorifying Jihad Johnny is cool. Well that's Couric and Matt Lauer's tribute to 911, liberal-style.

[JavaTheHutt]

I agree. All of the Steve Earle worshippers on here that say he didn't write this song intending for it to be controversial and gain him some long lost publicity are full of it.

All of this "Steve Earle doesn't care about money or publicity" crap is just that, crap. Anyone who thinks his only concern is for the quality of the songs he writes should step back and take an objective look at this one. It's lousy.

And a quick review of his own comments will prove that Steve Earle wrote this song intending to generate controversy and publicity for his long failing career as a heroin addicted country music wannabe.

'U.S. Taliban' Inspires Controversial Ballad

To quote from the article:

"[The song] offers a rare sympathetic view of Lindh..."

"This puts him in the same category as Jane Fonda and John Walker and all those people who hate America," says Nashville talk show host Steve Gill... "I'm not surprised that Steve's singing about that traitor."

Earle has joked that he's thinking about leaving the country once the CD is released in September, and he told an audience at the Mariposa Folk Festival in Ontario earlier this month: "This song just may get me ... deported."

The ruckus over the Lindh song marks a return to the political spotlight for Earle, who irritated the Nashville establishment for years, calling himself a Marxist and joining the movement to abolish the death penalty as well as the campaign against land mines.

Earle's supporters say the outspoken singer...will welcome controversy.

Never mind whether the cause makes any sense -- the point is to march in the streets and get on TV.