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This is what I regard to as a great blog find.
Ya see folks this is why regardless of your political views you NEED to read blogs on BOTH sides of the political fence. I learn so much from reading what folks have to say who are on the polar opposite side of the political fence that I.

I read this post that I found via Lefty Blogs and website that has headlines of blogs on (of course) the left.
This particular post was found on the blog: Down With Tyranny! His tagline:
“When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.”
Not terribly original because I have seen this particular quote on countless liberal blogs. Never mind that because I’m sure as hell know folks who happen to find this site must think, “man this mutherfucker is crazy” and they would be correct. This blog is very much me.

Now to this post, “Right Wingers Mostly Hate Music, Surprised?“
Is this dude crazy? I’m serious, has the folks on the left become so delirious that now the proverbial chasm between the left and right must be made wider by pulling some ridiculous study to show that I guess those on the right are somehow mentally and socially challenged and that they are so fucked up that they don’t even like MUSIC for God sakes!?

A couple of days ago George Clooney made some jackass statement that basically if you have never smoked a joint you are not qualified to be president. What the hell, was he high when he said that dumb shit!?

I don’t have very many detailed conversations with hard core liberals, mostly because liberals find it difficult to have a conversation with me because they simply do not understand me, I might as well be from another planet. Because all of their stereotypical bullshit they say and think about conservatives I fuck up all of their stereotypes.

On the music thing, I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area listening to music from Tower of Power, to the Average White Band to the Ohio Players, John Coltrane and Santana.
My musical taste comes from a couple of things, being the only black kid in an all white neighborhood I got introduced to music I may not have listened to if I were a black kid growing up in NYC or DC.

Ya know folks I’m not sure what to say about this post, but if we are getting to the point in this society that even our musical tastes are being scrutinized and is used to “separate” us we are in serious trouble.

The Norman Lear Center teamed up with Zogby to conduct an extensive national survey examining political beliefs and entertainment preferences this past summer. I don’t watch enough TV to relate to it beyond agreeing that only someone with a reptilian brain would watch Fox but I was very interested in the musical findings. The short version: “liberals enjoy a broad range of music, while conservatives dislike most music genres.”

• Out of 15 musical genres, conservatives were more likely than the rest of the respondents to listen to only two of them: country and gospel. What genre are they least likely to listen to, compared to the rest of the respondents? Not punk or hip-hop, as you might expect, but world music. World music is also the music genre where we see the greatest difference between conservatives and liberals.• Conservatives are the least likely group to listen to jazz (34% vs. 44% vs. 53%) and reggae (8% vs. 20% vs. 26%).

• Over 90% of conservatives said they never enjoy reggae, electronic music or Latin music. Over 95% said they never enjoy world music and punk music.

• Liberals, on the other hand, are more likely than other respondents to enjoy almost every music genre, including world, punk, Latin, hip-hop and rap, blues, reggae, electronica, R&B and soul, jazz, folk and traditional music. Rock was the most popular genre among liberals (67%).

• Although all political types claimed they enjoy classical music, moderates were the least enamored with it (55.5% listen to it compared to almost 62% of the rest of respondents). Moderates also showed their distaste for folk & traditional music (72.5% said they don’t listen to it, compared to 62.4% of the rest of the respondents), and they joined conservatives in their distaste for world music (90% said they don’t listen to it, compared to 71% of liberals.)

• Moderates’ favorite music is rock (58%). Conservatives’ favorite music is classical (60%) followed by country (56%) and rock (55%).

In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” as an antidote to Irving Berlin’s grating and overexposed “God Bless America.” Essentially it is a very patriotic song, but one with a progressive message of love for our country, not an empty, static, frosty and detached anthem like Berlin’s. Guthrie’s lyrics, in fact, changed over time. Although the ultimate change came not from Woody himself but from Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper who covered it on Root Hog Or Die in 1989, with a little less reverence than Dylan, Peter Paul & Mary, Counting Crows or Bruce Springsteen. If wingnuts were uncomfortable with Woody’s original– or the warning on his guitar, aimed their way– they will positively hate Mojo Nixon’s take:

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 at 11:53 am and is filed under Blog Watch, Liberal Nuts, Liberal Editorial, Liberal Education, Are you serious?, Music.
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