Paul Ryan's Favorite Band: Rage Against The Machine

[JI7]

<If you were to hazard a guess at what kind of music might be on Paul Ryan's iPod, it would probably be things like Toby Keith, Kid Rock, Counting Crows, right?

And though it's possible he does dig those all-American acts, the man tapped by Gov. Mitt Romney to be his vice-presidential running mate has one band in heavy rotation that might raise some eyebrows: Rage Against the Machine.

But as the New York Times pointed out after Saturday's reveal of his #2 spot pick, he's also the guy whose family has interests in oil leases, a fact that seems at odds with an adamantly leftist group whose career has been spent speaking out against corporate power structures, large corporations and the tax-cuts-for-the-one-percent policies of Ryan's new #1, Romney.

Contrast that with the long-serving Congressman and former prom king/ fraternity member, who was given a green-and-white cake with a giant green dollar sign by Fox News on his 42nd birthday in January, and you have the dictionary definition of strange bedfellows. Ryan, a favorite of the raft of Republican Tea Party freshmen who entered Congress in 2010, is also the author of a budget bill that would increase tax cuts for the wealthy and cut spending on entitlement programs like Medicare and privatize Social Security. The pro-life Congressman has voted against federal funding of Planned Parenthood and supports a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.>

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1691687/paul-ryan-rage-against-the-machine.jhtml

[flvegan]

1. RATM is great workout music.

Something I know he enjoys. He probably laughs at the lyrics...or doesn't understand them.

[sabrina 1]

2. I wonder if he knows that Tom Morello is a member of Occupy Street and opposed to

everything Ryan represents?



Rage at the Machine's Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street Rally

It's sort of like Freepers thinking The Boss was on their side. Too funny.

[JaneyVee]

10. Love the IWW hat.

[Ter]

3. Aren't they hardline revolutionaries?

Great music though.

[PayAttentionFool]

4. Perhaps he could use this RATM song at his next event?

This time the bullet cold rocked ya
A yellow ribbon instead of a swastika
Nothin' proper about ya propaganda
Fools follow the rules when the set commands ya
They said it was blue
When the boold was red
That's is how you got a bullet blasted through your head

Blasted through your head
Blasted through your head

I give a shout out to the living dead
Who stood and watched at the feds cold centralized
So serene on the screen
You was mesmerized
Cellular phones soundin' a death tone
Corporations cold
Turn ya to stone before you realize

They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds
Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high

They load the clip in omnicolor
They pack the 9, they fire it at prime time
Sleeping gas, every home was like Alcatraz
And mutha fuckas lost their minds

No escape from the mass mind rape
Play it again jack and then rewind the tape
Play it again and again and again
Until ya mind is locked in
Believin' all the lies that they are tellin' ya
Buying all the products that they are selling ya
They say jump
Ya say how high
Ya brain dead
Ya gotta fuckin' bullet in your head

Just victims of the in-house drive-by
They say jump, you say how high

Ya standin' in line
Believin' the lies
Ya bowin' down to the flag
Ya got a fuckin' bullet in ya head

[PayAttentionFool]

5. Perhaps this RATM tune is more fitting.....

Greed!
Causing innocent blood to flow
Entire culture, lost in the overthrow
They came to seize and take whatever they please
Then all they gave back was death and disease
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system, responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide...

Spoken:
'AIDS is killing the entire African nation
And a vaccine is still supposedly under preparation
But these governments they don't mind the procrastination
They say "We'll kill them off, take their land and go there for vaction."'

My people's culture was strong, it was pure
And if not for that white greed
It would've endured
My people were left with no choice but to decide
To conform to a system
Their minds enslaved
Their souls encaged
I feel the rage
It's brutality can never be undone
But the sun is not yet set
The bass and drums and microphones a threat
That's when ya investigate the crimes from the inside
And see that they're responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide
Responsible for genocide...

Ya cram ya culture down my throat
Say I'm inferior when I find that I choke
Ya fill my mind with a false sense of history
And then you wonder why I have no identity?
Well I'll strike a match and it'll catch and
Spread the insight we need
A tiny fire, burning bright
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

A yes yes y'all
And ya don't stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

A yes yes y'all
And ya don't stop
Shedding light on the darkness of greed

[Odin2005]

6. LMFAO!!!

[craigmatic]

7. He likes Nirvana too. Republicans don't have cool music to listen to besides country that agrees

their philosophy besides country. Nearly everyone is the entertainment industry is a liberal. It makekes me smile knowing the repubs have nowhere else to get music from.

[PayAttentionFool]

8. They do have Ted and Kid Rock

but I think Kid Rock does shit kicker music now and when Ted has not been all that interesting since Derek St. Holmes left.

Has much as I hate Teds politics, Stranglehold is one damn fine tune.

[craigmatic]

12. I don't like Ted personally with the thing about him adopting that underaged girl.

[JaneyVee]

9. One of the MOST Left-Wing bands ever.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

11. No, sorry. He has to stick to the Republican supporters.

He can have the various country artist, Megadeath, Kid Rock, and whatever other fringe artist want to sell their souls. He can't have my artist. They don't want him, trust me on this one.

[DLine]

13. Hey Paul, They're singing about YOU!

Weapons not food, not homes, not shoes
Not need, just feed the war cannibal animal
I walk the corner to the rubble that used to be a library
Line up to the mind cemetery now
What we don't know keeps the contracts alive an movin'
They don't gotta burn the books they just remove 'em
While arms warehouses fill as quick as the cells
Rally round the family, pockets full of shells

[Initech]

14. Tom Morello: Paul Ryan is part of the very machine we rage against.

[Honeycombe8]

15. That's pretty adolescent, for a middle aged man, isn't it? nt

[DLine]

16. Hey now...

Im almost 34 and have loved RATM since high school. Im sure I will still love them at 42

[dogknob]

17. Wow, Paul. That's pretty catchy. What's it mean?