[Gurn]

Check out these lyrics below. They couldn't be CLEARER. This Cretin, Earle is comparing Johnny Taliban to Jesus.

You are a simple-minded individual.If you ever took a freshman lit class, you'd be familiar with a device known as "point of view."

Huck Finn used the word "nigger". Does that make Mark Twain racist? No. He was writing in the first person, from Huck's point of view.

Earle has said he wasn't glorifying Lindh, nor comparing him to Jesus. Earle has no reason to lie. He sells about 150,000 records each release. Ergo, he'd have no reason to lie about whether he was glorifying Lindh. What about that is difficult for you to understand?

I'm just amazed at some of the doltery in this thread.

[PJ-Comix]

If you ever took a freshman lit class, you'd be familiar with a device known as "point of view."

So that would justify Earle singing a song about, say, a "poor, misunderstood" young Hitler? Sorry. I don't want to hear any songs that try to get into Hitler's or Johnny Taliban's head.

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Barbra Streisand can sing and act. Hitler could paint. What's your point? That true "artistes" have a higher calling and thus immunity from any responsibility for the words they use? I'd argue the opposite. They have a greater responsibility for the work they do today because they are made "idols" in our culture - afforded power and influence far beyond reason.

[SarahW]

Saw him on Greta last night. He was indeed trying to say, in music, that he thinks JW is a scapegoat for OBL, and that "he doesn't understand what johnny's exact crime was" and that he "isn't comfortable" with JW's guilty plea.
(he meant he thinks it was coerced.)

He thinks Islam is a religion of peace, too, and is worried about the "erosion of civil liberties" and so forth, your basic brainless knee-jerk against the war, his version of Julia Robert's "PEOPLE. PLEASE." (teary closeup)

He is clearly sympathetic with Walker and angry about "GWB's war."

I thought, as a song, it was good. But I won't be picking up the album.