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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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III is a punk guy that plays punkified country because his name means that’s where the money is.
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.
Country music thread, continued:
Cigarettes, and Whiskey and Wild Wild Women, y’all.
That was good, haven’t heard that one in a long, long time.
Let’s go to Luckenbach, Texas with Waylon and Willie and the boys…
https://youtu.be/3dXR5Dk8YNw
Many likes.
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?
As usual, bless her, Camille Paglia rocks because she’s an atheist lesbian Democrat who admits this.
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).
Country music thread, continued:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfhVPU8BK-A
Possum!
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.
George Jones was one of a kind!
A contribution from Tennessee:
What’s all this, then?
Here is the original song that the “Monday Night Football” intro was based upon:
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.)
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.
But how could I possibly resist this?
That’s Véronique Labbé, by the way.