Notice: when you lose country music...you're a goner

[valarltd]

It's not just fringe guys like Steve Earle and James McMurtrie speaking out anymore. It's not the easily-ignored, heavily vilified Dixie Chicks.

It's Merle Haggard, Mr. Jingoist Okie from Muskogee himself singing about Rebuild America First
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOO3pF2ydCM
embedded under cut

And it's not Merle singing it, but he wrote it, and you can find him doing it at launch.com
"That's the News." The video is hooped, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MegvP3ypuy4

Darryl Worely has apparently recanted his previous position of Iraq=9/11 from "Have you forgotten?" and moved to "I just came back from a war."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwpO8Q1u4Ss

And of course, Kris Kristofferson's "In the News"
http://www.kriskristofferson.com/news/
(not embeddable)

"Burning up the atmosphere and cutting down the trees
The billion dollar bombing of a nation on it's knees
Anyone not marching to their tune they call it treason
Everyone says God is on his side."

Comments

[nbrooks.livejournal.com]

Item 1. Pro-war and Pro-Bush go together.

Item 2. Pro-troops and Pro-American go together.

However it just boggles my mind now item 1 and 2 can even be *remotely* considered on the same side of spectrum.

If one is pro-troops, one does not support sending them into illegal wars of greed to be killed or maimed. One does not also support the Bush-administration policy of denying them benefits and proper care once they get home. This describes what I heard in the Worely song.

If one is pro-American, one does not support the squandering of the national treasury and "redistrubution" of public funds (America's money to spend on improving America!) into the pockets of overcharging war profiteers (A second vacation home and private jet for a CEO!). This describes what I heard in the Haggard song.

However, I still despise country music. Blech.

[valarltd.livejournal.com]

Hee, I'm subverting you one Steve Earle song at a time and you know it.