Are You Ready For Some Disunity?

 

A few days ago, Pseudodionysius posted a thread about my love of country music. Since then, I have been in something of a slow burn because of a certain comment that was posted there. The comment in question was posted by me, wherein I mentioned one Randall Hank Williams, better known to the world as country music legend Hank Williams, Jr.

From 1989 to 2011, a version of one of Williams’ hit songs – retitled “Are You Ready For Some Football?” – was featured by ABC (and later ESPN) as the introduction to “Monday Night Football.” Here is a clip from the early 1990s:

That all came to an end on October 3, 2011, when during an interview on Fox and Friends, Williams expressed dismay that a few months earlier, Barack Obama and Joe Biden had participated in a golf outing with two of their alleged political opponents: John Boehner and John Kasich.  Williams said that the get-together made about as much sense as Adolf Hitler meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu.

Within hours, the social justice warrior lynch mob went to work, and by the end of the day Williams’ iconic song had been pulled from “Monday Night Football,” and at week’s end he was fired outright. All for the “crime” of insulting Dear Leader Obama.

Of course, Williams’ employment by ABC/ESPN was at-will and they had the right to dismiss him for any reason or no reason at all. But does anyone really think Williams would have received the same treatment had he said the same thing about one of Obama’s Republican predecessors? To ask the question is to answer it.

Social justice warrior lynch mobs are becoming an all-too-frequent feature of contemporary American life, as seen with the recent uproar over the “murder” of Cecil the Lion and the disgraceful, Taliban-like pogrom against the St. Andrew’s Cross and other Confederate symbols. In his latest podcast, John Derbyshire likewise expresses disdain (starting at about the 31:50 mark), recalling how similar such events are to the child-abuse conspiracy insanity of the mid-1980s.  If you want to know how such nonsensical movements like National Socialism, Maoism, and the Khmer Rouge can gain social traction so quickly, the aforementioned are contemporary, textbook examples on a much smaller scale. Mass hysteria exists, no doubt about it.

Indeed, the America of 2015 bears little resemblance to the America I was born into forty years ago. On the day after Election Day in 2012, a cousin of mine with whom I am very close called me. She asked how an incompetent, America-hating Marxist like Obama could ever come to lead the United States. Here is what I told her: “The country that you and I knew as kids, the country that put a man on the moon and won the Cold War, no longer exists.”

It has been said that the past is a foreign country. For many of us, that is an apt description of the present. Adios, America.

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  1. Douglas Inactive
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    Cat III:When Hank Williams Jr. was sacked, I was a screaming lefty, and even I thought it was BS. Though, I was endeared by his calling Obama and Biden, “the three stooges”.

    It’s strange, to most leftists, “Adolf Hitler meeting with Benjamin Netanyahu” would just be Hitler meeting with his Jewish equivalent.

    On the subject of Hank Williamses, I prefer III. What other country artist would dedicate a ten minute song to GG Allin? (If he were born thirty years later, David Allan Coe might’ve.)

    III is a punk guy that plays punkified country because his name means that’s where the money is.

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  2. Robert McReynolds Member
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    RightAngles:

    Robert McReynolds:

    Kay of MT:

    RightAngles: As Greg Gutfeld said: “We think they’re wrong. They think we’re evil.”

    We know they are wrong and we know they are EVIL! Don’t anybody forget that.

    I take a different approach. They ARE evil. People who swallow in whole an ideology that seeks to control other people are evil. There is another word for this I think. Isn’t it called slavery? My how the Democrats never change.

    So true. My Facebook feed is bloated with stupid memes dutifully shared from sites like Occupy Democrats, Americans Against the Republican Party, Black Lives Matter, etc. All with such patently absurd misinformation that it’s embarrassing, or should be. The sharers have zero idea that they’re the pawns of George Soros and worse. And all while decrying the Koch Bros.

    I mean if all one needs for proof that the Democrats are evil just look at what they have done to the black community since the mid-60s.  That is what is awaiting all Americans because of their wicked pursuit of power at all costs.  That is what we will be relegated to because they so wish to brag to their European friends that they were able to “civilize” the United States.

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  3. Dorothea Inactive
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    Country music thread, continued:

    Cigarettes, and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women, y’all.

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  4. Kay of MT Inactive
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    Dorothea: Cigarettes, and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women, y’all.

    That was good, haven’t heard that one in a long, long time.

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  5. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys…

    https://youtu.be/3dXR5Dk8YNw

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  6. Dorothea Inactive
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    Many likes.

    Image result for luckenbach texas

    Don’t blink! You might miss that turn off of 1376. Never saw any music, but took the husband there when we were courting, many years ago.

    There’s a dance hall there somewhere, right?

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  7. Great Ghost of Gödel Inactive
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    Douglas:I think everyone, deep down, knows God exists. They may not admit it to themselves. They may deal with that instinct in different ways. But I think everyone knows there’s an authority greater than we out there somewhere. I think the Left, because it must deny God as a principle of their political theory, looks for a God substitute.

    As usual, bless her, Camille Paglia rocks because she’s an atheist lesbian Democrat who admits this.

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  8. tabula rasa Inactive
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    Couple of comments.

    Like many others, I was silent when Hank was fired.  I’ve got to quit being such a wuss.  We need to push back.

    Side issue:  Re Cat III’s cigarette, I’m proud to day that the Salt Lake City airport (yes, the one in Utah, where lots of Mormons–including me–live) still has smoking rooms.  I think there are only about ten airports in the nation that accommodate smokers.  But, no surprise here, the do-gooders are trying to end that policy.

    I don’t smoke, and I don’t much care to be inundated by smoke, but these rooms are well-ventilated.  I guarantee you no one has died from second-hand smoke at the SLC airport.

    Bottom Line:  Cat III, you’re welcome in conservative Utah, and you can smoke in the airport (for now, at least).

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  9. Dorothea Inactive
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    Country music thread, continued:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfhVPU8BK-A

    Possum!

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  10. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    tabula rasa:Couple of comments.

    Like many others, I was silent when Hank was fired. I’ve got to quit being such a wuss. We need to push back.

    Side issue: Re Cat III’s cigarette, I’m proud to day that the Salt Lake City airport (yes, the one in Utah, where lots of Mormons–including me–live) still has smoking rooms. I think there are only about ten airports in the nation that accommodate smokers. But, no surprise here, the do-gooders are trying to end that policy.

    I don’t smoke, and I don’t much care to be inundated by smoke, but these rooms are well-ventilated. I guarantee you no one has died from second-hand smoke at the SLC airport.

    Bottom Line: Cat III, you’re welcome in conservative Utah, and you can smoke in the airport (for now, at least).

    I should have mentioned the anti-smoking hysteria as well in my original post.  I hate, hate, hate the smoking bans that cities and states have imposed.  That decision should be between the business owner and customer, no one else.

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  11. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    Dorothea:Country music thread, continued:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfhVPU8BK-A

    Possum!

    George Jones was one of a kind!

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  12. Dorothea Inactive
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    A contribution from Tennessee:

    What’s all this, then?

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  13. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    Here is the original song that the “Monday Night Football” intro was based upon:

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  14. Matthew Gilley Inactive
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    Good grief, LaRoche – all this bravado at the beginning fades into you getting all syrupy sweet about Canadian country music inside of 60 comments? Post all you like about Willie, Waylon, and the boys, but it’s no use. The damage is irreversible. (Texans ruin everything, even beef.)

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  15. Cat III Member
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    tabula rasa:Side issue: Re Cat III’s cigarette, I’m proud to day that the Salt Lake City airport (yes, the one in Utah, where lots of Mormons–including me–live) still has smoking rooms. I think there are only about ten airports in the nation that accommodate smokers. But, no surprise here, the do-gooders are trying to end that policy.

    I don’t smoke, and I don’t much care to be inundated by smoke, but these rooms are well-ventilated. I guarantee you no one has died from second-hand smoke at the SLC airport.

    Bottom Line: Cat III, you’re welcome in conservative Utah, and you can smoke in the airport (for now, at least).

    You’re talking to a lifelong Utahn. Haven’t smoked in a very long time–it’s one of the things I’ve retained from my Mormon upbringing.

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  16. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    Matthew Gilley:Good grief, LaRoche – all this bravado at the beginning fades into you getting all syrupy sweet about Canadian country music inside of 60 comments? Post all you like about Willie, Waylon, and the boys, but it’s no use. The damage is irreversible. (Texans ruin everything, even beef.)

    But how could I possibly resist this?

    VeroniqueLabbe1

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  17. Mike LaRoche Inactive
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    That’s Véronique Labbé, by the way.

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