Interesting article.

[mosinging1986.livejournal.com]

(The usual disclaimers apply. I don't have the time or energy to sit here for hours and establish whether every quote is accurate.)

There are a lot of good points here, and it's not all one-sided.

Off Their Rockers for Kerry?

I have not heard any of these songs. But if what I'm reading here about them is correct, some of them sound absolutely disgusting.

This was especially infuriating, however:


Last year, [Rickie Lee] Jones told the British newspaper The Guardian , "I think 9/11 gave this generation an identity, and its identity is potentially fascist. My skin crawls when I think of the first week after 9/11. I was looking out of the window and there were people marching down the street carrying flags. It reminded me of spontaneous, angry Nazis and I thought, 'Oh, man, we are in a lot of trouble'. There's a whole bunch of people who have flags hanging from their cars and who are mistaking fascism for patriotism."


You're going to sit here and call 'fascist' those people on 9/11 who held American flags to show support for, 1) their country and 2) the victims of this hateful act?

And I am too, for having a flag in my window? Gee, I'm sorry. I must have missed that memo.

Also, my apologies to Linda Rondstadt for digusting her so much. (Ms. Rondstadt, I promise to never offend you again by buying your records.)

But yeah, that's the attitude I see bandied around these days although it's not *quite* that out in the open and extreme.

Yet.

That's the kind of ugliness people who are not violently anti-Bush have to deal with every single day. Here. At home.

So much for the word 'tolerance' that everyone tosses about - when it's convenient for them or their cause.

I sure don't feel it comin' in my direction.