Music Is the Message at GOP Convention

[Khephra]

lots of funny and revealing little bits in this one....

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Organizers have characterized the offerings as "preachers and patriotism." As with the Democrats in Boston, the convention proper is featuring acts not likely to offend delegates, with edgier performers taking the stage at other venues.

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Kid Rock was the hot act Wednesday night, performing at the Avalon a dozen blocks away in a concert honoring the House speaker, Rep. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, in one of the convention's most improbable pairings.

At Madison Square Garden, the convention was hearing at the same time from keynoter Sen. Zell Miller, a Georgia Democrat who supports President Bush and recently attacked the "ignoramus" rocker for a Super Bowl performance in which he wore a poncho that looked like a U.S. flag with a hole cut in it for his head.

He suggested Kid Rock "be tarred and feathered and ridden out of this country on a rail." Instead, Kid Rock performed at an event sponsored by corporate and interest groups, including the National Rifle Association.


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Josh Berthume, 25, a film-music composer who runs the political blog damntheman, says these tunes are getting harder to take. "Every time they're revisited, they get less and less cool," he said in an interview.

"But where the Democrats half pulled it off, the RNC is sad and tragically unhip. It really seems like most of the videos and presentations are put together by 38-year-old geometry teachers enlisted to 'get down with the kids.'"

http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-cvn-music,0,6541278.story?coll=sns-ap-politics-headlines

[drdigi420]

1. Dolts love country "music"

and most republicans are dolts

[burythehatchet]

2. I can't dispute your logic

[Mistress Quickly]

3. Thanks

from a country music listener.

[Khephra]

5. I'm not a fan of country

but you're forgetting many liberal country singers. And those who, while not Democrats, are progressive in their views.

Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson, just to name two.

[klook]

6. Steve Earle and Dixie Chicks (n/t)

[drdigi420]

7. I'm not forgetting anything

The % of country singers that are liberal is roughly equal to the % of Democratic Senators that support George Bush.

Next you'll tell me that Republicans don't hate black people because they hired Condi Rice.

Don't try to make this an us vs them, black or white, yin or yang type of argument.

MOST country singers are right wing because most country fans are right wing.

Bring back music education in public school and the popularity of country music will recede. The more people know about music, the less impressive a 3 chord, repetitive, and unoriginal piece of music will be.

[wyethwire]

4. such as the Devil Went Down To Georgia

he was looking for a soul to steal - and found Zell Miller