Worst Musical War Profiteering (The Onion AV Club)

[Paragon]

http://www.theonionavclub.com/3949/feature1.html

Darryl Worley, "Have You Forgotten?"
The debate over war in the Middle East yielded abysmal songs on both sides of the issue's ideological divide, but no single track was worse than Darryl Worley's "Have You Forgotten?", which vaulted the opportunistic country-music obscurity from roadhouses to arenas virtually overnight. The song doesn't explicitly state that Saddam Hussein attempted to acquire uranium from Niger, but it's packed with distortions: It creates the false choice between going to war and "backing down," and it crafts arguments against positions no one has taken. "And you say we shouldn't worry 'bout bin Laden"—who ever said that? In 2003, mainstream country music's widespread rejection and blackballing of the Dixie Chicks illustrated one more factor contributing to the genre's creative bankruptcy: Where the greats once challenged authority, today's self-proclaimed "outlaws" (Toby Keith, et al) attack dissenters while defending the establishment with a maniacal, censorious fervor.

[Zuni]

1. It is so true

see the thread about the Freeper cartoon. On installment 7 the hero is listening to 'Have You Forgotten'

[Paragon]

2. I saw that

It's as if the most pathetic freeper in the world made a comic book version of his uttermost masturbatory Republican fantasy.

Oh, wait - that's exactly what it is. :silly:

[LSparkle]

3. I am SOOO sick of that relic Lee Greenwood

and his wretched "God Bless The U.S.A." -- AGAIN! (Thought we could come up with a new "theme" for this Gulf War but NOOOOOO ... )

[TheMightyFavog]

4. Wait a tic...

I always thought that Greenwood wrote that song for the '84 Republican National Convention