Have you ever noticed that popular culture hates George Bush?

[Melodybe]

The number one album is Kanye West's Late Registration, the number one video at Mtv is Green Day's Wake me up when September ends.

When Good Night and Good Luck comes out we'll have a trifecta of Bush V Popular Culture.

I love it, burn in hell you nazis! You can't stop progess.

[Melodybe]

1. It does

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. yes, yes we do

[Brother Buzz]

3. Have you ever noticed that a huge portion of the popular culture...

can't be bothered to vote?

I'm just saying....

[Melodybe]

6. Did you know that more young people voted in 2004 than at any other

time since 18 year olds were given the right to vote?

America voted, we just got Diebolded.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Did you know you don't have to be young to be part of the popular culture?

My observations of voter apathy extends from teens though the mid-thirties. I saw it first hand while doing voter registration drives; a lot of people simply didn't care. Diebold is only part of the problem.

[Melodybe]

13. Well, Diebold is a problem that we can fix quickly

[FreedomAngel82]

19. Exactly

And Kerry was popular with the young people. On MTV's website around the election they had a poll on Kerry vs Bush and Kerry won with around 60% of the vote.

[tjdee]

4. That's how you know that most of us aren't neocons--VOTE people, geez!

If you look at our popular culture--what people watch, what they listen to, etc.--it is obvious as the smirk on Bush's face that Americans are not the wingnut homophobic ultra cons the Republicans would have you believe they are.

The problem is that people don't vote.

[bluedawg12]

8. Getting out the vote is going to be key

I think this time the cultural backlash will be from the left.

[mitchum]

5. I knew that the right wing fascists had lost the "culture wars" when my...

60 year old, very suburban, very middle class father told me that he had been picking up a lot of "gay lingo" since he had started watching "Six Feet Under" :)
It's quite a trip to find one's self discussing tops and bottoms with their dad!

[bobbieinok]

7. that's b/c of the 'evil liberal media, Hollywood' ...religious wrong

will yank US 'back' to 'traditional American values'

when I hear 'traditional American values' I hear slavery, Native American genocide, no votes for women

.....and no anesthetic for childbirth b/c of Eve's curse: women must suffer in childbirth

.....and a black = 3/5 of a white

etc

[FreedomAngel82]

20. Yep

Whenever someone tells me we're a Christian nation I just remind them of the past things that have happend. Racism, sexism, slavery, how women were treated, the Salem "witch" trials, slaughtering of Indians and how they were treated with the "Trail of Tears" etc.

[SunDrop23]

10. Not just popular culture, but plain people like me too. nfm

[libodem]

11. because * hates popular culture

[Faygo Kid]

12. Not as much as I do.

No way. And it's not personal; it's a betrayal of the Enlightenment, our nation, everything we have stood for, even some of the bad. Not as much as I do.

[Melodybe]

14. Bush or pop culture?

Cause I am gonna have to defend large segments of pop culture.

[Melodybe]

15. kick

[Faygo Kid]

24. Bush, of course.

Everyone has a problem with some or another element of pop culture, but it's Bush that I despise.

[Marr]

16. Do you know why entertainers always seem to hate guys like Bush?

Because entertainers are the only people in our society who gain a public voice without first passing through some sort of ideological filter. MOST people hate Bush- and all the other nut-jobs like him. But our media is owned by big money, and they hire people who think like they do, for the most part.

[Melodybe]

17. Yep

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Yes

Green Day's whole "American Idiot" album is anti-Bush. You should buy it if you haven't. I really like it.

[Hello_Kitty]

21. Conservatism is antithetical to creativity. n/t

[pepperbear]

22. ever notice

that it is popular culture the GOP wishes to control the most?

[liveoaktx]

23. Heh! Vid Clip-Saw this on Curb Your Enthusiasm with Larry David last night

The Bush Photo

[DerekG]

25. And the #1 movie of the year was vaguely anti-Bush--"Revenge of the Sith"

George Lucas once described himself as a "Kennedy Democrat." In fact, the moniker of one of his corporatist villains--Nute Gunray--was an ode to Gingrich and Reagan.