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   Hello Ron!   
      
   26 Sep 70 16:09, you wrote to Don Vally:   
      
    RL> -=> Don Vally wrote to ALL <=-   
      
    DV>> What a complete ass. I wonder if he knows that the majority of   
    DV>> Americans voted for this president and his policies. Bruce   
    DV>> basically spit in the eye of Americans with his political rant.   
      
    RL> He just continues to prove that he's irrelevant.   
      
    DV>> He's got a right to his opinion, but people who live in glass   
    DV>> houses should not throw stones. This may come back to bite him   
    DV>> where it hurts. Guess he figures since he doesn't have to be   
    DV>> popular anymore, why not call the majority of Americans traitors.   
      
    RL> I really don't understand why these people put politics into their   
    RL> entertainment.  It drives off buyers one way or another.  It's like   
    RL> their are trying to commit career suicide.   
      
      
    yeah, how DARE someone like Tom Morello write "F*** TRUMP" on the back of his   
   guitar! He's no political expert, he's just a musician!   
      
    To quote Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine,  when someone called him   
   out on it:   
      
    "One does not have to be an honors grad in political science from Harvard   
   University to recognize the unethical and inhumane nature of this   
   administration but well, I happen to be an honors grad in political science   
   from Harvard University so I can confirm that for you"   
      
      
   It remeninds me when Paul Ryan (Former speaker of House, and failed GOP VP   
   candidate) mentioned RATM was one of his favorite bands.  Tom pointed out that   
   he was literally the machine they've been raging against for the last 20 years.   
      
   Music has always been political. Punk is an entire genre of music that's   
   purely political.  Bands like U2 are incredibly political.  lots of early   
   hip-hop artists were political (you think NWA did "F*** The Police" because it   
   was "edgy"?)   
      
   Even The Beatles were political with themes on social and cultural viewes,   
   peace, racism and religion.  "Come Together" was written as a campaign song   
   for Timothy Leary when he ran for Governor of California in 1969.   
      
      
   I don't hear you complaining about Ted Nugent, Kid Rock, Lee Greenwood, Jason   
   Aldean, or the Village People spouting off about their political views.  Why   
   is that?   
      
      
   Mike   
      
      
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