As is often the way with sequels- it’s bigger and worse.
It seems rock n’ roll isn’t the only genre to suffer co-optation at the hands of rank hypocrites who are the antithesis of everything it once stood for.
George Bush handler and right winger Karl Rove’s numerous previous tricks include using a false name to gain entry to the offices of Democrat candidate Alan Dixon, stealing headed notepaper and using it to disrupt his campaign as well as leaking the identity of a CIA agent in an attempt to discredit her husband for challenging his case for the war in Iraq.
Minor infractions compared to this latest abomination.
Hip-hop fans beware. This is off any Richter scale of wrongness I can bring to my befuddled mind.
Witness our ebullient oligarch embarrass himself and insult millions of music fans in a rap display as MC Rove at the Radio and Television Correspondents’ Association dinner.
I know there’s a degree of controversy surrounding the alleged relationship between rap music and gun culture but I didn’t think it went as far as outright warmongering.
(Thanks, I think, to Inez for the tip-off here).
April 5, 2007 at 3:59 pm
Thanks Adam. I’m still traumatized and couldn’t bring myself to write about MC Rove. And to think, I was around when Hip Hop was considered evil by guys like the ones featured in the video. Hell, I remember when Falco was considered a blight on rap music. In the immortal words of Chuck D: How low can you go??
April 6, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Never mind guys ‘like’ the ones in the video- probably the very same ones