because no one else has......Aldean's song and media hypocrisy...

PostmodernProphet said:
this morning on NBC's Today Show Savannah Guthrie commented that what was controversial about "Try That In A Small Town" wasn't the lyrics but the video which incited violence......what she didn't acknowledge was that all of the video was lifted from national news sources such as NBC's Today Show....
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I think the problem is you...stop paying attention to propagandists.

They only run the world if you let them.
 
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Stone said:
Ooooooh....MTB. One of the anthems from those days that EVERYONE knew!

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I’d put up any of these old country rock bands like Skynyrd, Allman Brothers, Outlaws, MTB, 38 Special, etc., against any of the Modern Country performers out of Nashville any day and they would blow most of them away,
 
Mott the Hoople said:
Who cares? The song definitely isn’t racist but Aldean is playing the culture wars, and I am so sick and tired of the left and the right’s culture wars. The song is denigrating City folk with Aldeans suburban cowboy angst.

Besides the song itself sucks and is about as melodic as a semi truck engine braking and the lyrics are were written for a third grade reading comprehension level.

Want to hear a great song about small town life that completely blows this vacuous shit kicker wanna be bad ass song away and doesn’t denigrate anyone?

Then Listen to John Mellencamps “Small Town”. Which is one hell of lot better than this suburban shitkickers song.
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What's up Mott! Culture wars dominate today, no way around it, and that includes in music.

I hated Larry Bird as a kid but have come to appreciate and love his greatness with age. They had a NBA superstars video back in the mid 80's with highlights to different songs. Bird's was to Small Town.


 
It’s racist


Denying that it is when so many Americans see the racism in it (and yes even the lyrics imply racist violence)


Is to protect racists


It is a racist violent song

It says if the wrong people protest in a small town they will be met with violence


Case closed
 
Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light
Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Ya think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya like
Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you're tough
Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town
Got a gun that my granddad gave me
They say one day they're gonna round up
Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck
Try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town
Full of good ol' boys, raised up right
If you're looking for a fight
Try that in a small town
Try that in a small town
Try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town
 
Full of good ol' boys, raised up right
If you're looking for a fight



He suggests a legal protest will cause you to meet violence if you do it in a small town


What does the phrase “good ole boy” mean?
 
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Ol'_Boys_Roundup



The Good Ol' Boys Roundup was an annual whites only event run by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in southern Tennessee from 1980-1996. A senior manager at the Knoxville U.S. Attorney's Office warned personnel not to attend due to reports of "heavy drinking, strippers, and persons engaging in extramarital affairs".[1] After allegations emerged that a "Ku Klux Klan attitude" pervaded the event[2] a Senate Judiciary Committee was formed to investigate.[3]
 
Examples of racist exhibitions
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A sign at the entrance to the event location noted a "Nigger checkpoint area".[2]
T-shirts were sold showing Martin Luther King Jr.'s face in sniper crosshairs, O. J. Simpson's head in a noose and black men sprawled across police cruisers with the phrase "Boyz on the Hood" (a play on a John Singleton movie title).[2]
 
evince said:
It’s racist

Denying that it is when so many Americans see the racism in it (and yes even the lyrics imply racist violence)
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tens of MILLIONS of people, black, white, and hispanic are telling you that you're wrong.

do a youtube search on reactions to that song, single out the black people reacting to it..........I dare you
 
cawacko said:
What's up Mott! Culture wars dominate today, no way around it, and that includes in music.

I hated Larry Bird as a kid but have come to appreciate and love his greatness with age. They had a NBA superstars video back in the mid 80's with highlights to different songs. Bird's was to Small Town.


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I know. It sucks. What ever happened to the days of “I don’t agree with what you’re saying but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.”.

Between the far lefts thought police and the far right’s authoritarianism “Achtung you must obey fearless leader and 2,000 year old philosophers” and the ignorance of voters not understanding that this is all divide and conquer politics by the ruling political classes this sort of tolerance, which used to be an ingrained part of American values that made us unique.

Those days and that set of values are disappearing and I find it sad and disheartening. (Of course this comment will start a round of finger pointing by both partisan sides.).

I loved to hate Bird, back in the day, as I was a 76’ers fan and watching Bird and Dr. J match up was a hoot!
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I know. It sucks. What ever happened to the days of “I don’t agree with what you’re saying but I’ll fight to the death for your right to say it.”.

Between the far lefts thought police and the far right’s authoritarianism “Achtung you must obey fearless leader and 2,000 year old philosophers” and the ignorance of voters not understanding that this is all divide and conquer politics by the ruling political classes this sort of tolerance, which used to be an ingrained part of American values that made us unique.

Those days and that set of values are disappearing and I find it sad and disheartening. (Of course this comment will start a round of finger pointing by both partisan sides.).

I loved to hate Bird, back in the day, as I was a 76’ers fan and watching Bird and Dr. J match up was a hoot!
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Neither here nor there but reading a new biography that just came out about Gerald Ford (called An Ordinary Man). At no point were things kumbaya in our country but it was definitely a different time when there were conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans and just a different dynamic (there was still partisanship, political machines etc. etc. but not the hyper polarization we see today).

Regarding Bird, pretty entertaining to watch YouTube clips of people Bird played against and how much trash talking he did and how at times he would literally tell the opponent the play coming out of a huddle and still execute it. I remember as a young kid that Celtics - Sixers rivalry and I too was rooting for the Sixers!
 
cawacko said:
Neither here nor there but reading a new biography that just came out about Gerald Ford (called An Ordinary Man). At no point were things kumbaya in our country but it was definitely a different time when there were conservative Democrats and liberal Republicans and just a different dynamic (there was still partisanship, political machines etc. etc. but not the hyper polarization we see today).

Regarding Bird, pretty entertaining to watch YouTube clips of people Bird played against and how much trash talking he did and how at times he would literally tell the opponent the play coming out of a huddle and still execute it. I remember as a young kid that Celtics - Sixers rivalry and I too was rooting for the Sixers!
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Yea the Celtics always seemed to get the best of Dr. J and the 76’rs until Philly picked up Moses Malone. One of the most underrated centers ever. What a beast!
 
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