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November 16, 2005
just for this, a new category
I've added a new category-- OMFG-- to the blog entries. I've been thinking of adding it for a while, but when I ran across the following item, I had to create it.
RightMarch.com, a conservative online advocacy group, has launched a campaign trying to get a right-wing musical duo, The Right Brothers, onto MTV.
Think Progress has the full story, an audio sample, the e-mail RightMarch.com sent to their supporters, and the full lyrics to the song.
OMFG. I don't even know where to begin. Are the neocons really that desperate that they have to put their arguments to song? I'm using the term "arguments" loosely here, the lyrics are basically just a bunch of partisan rhetoric. And the music is just plain bad, too.
-ttfn
Posted by Savage Steve at November 16, 2005 5:32 PM
Comments
So I'm curious... you ask in your blog entry above "I don't even know where to begin. Are the neocons really that desperate that they have to put their arguments to song? I'm using the term "arguments" loosely here, the lyrics are basically just a bunch of partisan rhetoric. And the music is just plain bad, too."
Hmmmm.
Heard this one lately? http://www.anysonglyrics.com/lyrics/e/eminem/Mosh-Lyrics.htm
Sounds like there's plenty to go around. "Neocons," as you refer to them, are welcome to spread their message of "partisan rhetoric" as much as they want, considering media outlets play this crap, too.
Posted by: Jason Davis at November 22, 2005 2:25 PM
That Eminem "song" is just as ridiculous as the one by the Right Brothers-- they both suffer from oversimplification of a complex issue and do nothing to advance the genuine debate over the war in Iraq and the war on "terror".
Eminem saying, "Fuck Bush" is just as bad as the Right Brothers saying (and I'm paraphrasing here), "We're right and you're wrong." Both statements are completely void of any real meaning.
Both sides can do better.
Posted by: Savage Steve at November 22, 2005 8:13 PM
I agree, but would have preferred to see your response as the initial blog entry in the OMFG category. For both sides of the aisle, this type of "music" is unhelpful to the cause - whichever side you fall on.
Instead, I see your blog entry as slamming just one side, not even addressing left-wing lunatics who do the exact same thing - and in the case of Eminem, use vulgarities to push their message.
And unfortunately, everyone is fully entitled to create their own type of music - heck, even country music is still legal. Geesh.
Posted by: Jason Davis at December 2, 2005 9:02 AM