This is strange. Not only am I not a believer in one of John Wayne’s most quoted movie lines, I’m not especially enamored of Aldean’s latest hit song and the in-your-face message it conveys. However, in one key respect, I admire Aldean’s defiant speech before singing his song tthat has been the target of furious attacks across the progressive spectrum. Here’s what he said…
What makes it a heroic moment is that he didn’t apologize. Too many celebrities, public figures and athletes have grovelled for forgiveness when their words or opinions have prompted attacks on their character and efforts to, as the singer described them, “ruin their lives.” They do it because they fear losing jobs, money, friends and associates, because what we’re experiencing today is culture-wide McCarthyism of the Left. The objectives and the methods are similar, but the ubiquity and power of the electronic media make the threat to freedom of speech and democracy even more dire—and it was pretty scary there for a while in the Fifties.
Capitulating to the today’s Left’s bully tactics, as they accuse those who don’t swoon at their values of being racists, sexists, fascists, hate speech purveyors and unworthy of discourse and association with the good people, makes the censors and the aspiring totalitarians bolder and more powerful. Weenies are their useful idiots. Sure, “Try That in a Small Town” is simple-minded, but it’s a song. Most of my favorite songs are simple-minded: “Only You” is simple-minded. “Unchained Melody” is simple-minded. “The battle Hymn of the Republic” isn’t exactly “Finnegan’s Wake.” As a genre, Country music is simple-minded. So what? A lot of people love it. There’s nothing to apologize for. I find a lot of songs offensive—don’t get me started on “Imagine”—but I don’t set out to punish and shun the artists responsible for them. (especially if I like the melody!)
For years, I’ve told ethics seminars that Nathan Brittles’ famous assertion in “She Wore A Yellow Ribbon” (appropriated as the most famous of “Gibbs’ Rules” in “NCIS”) is wrong and unethical: apologizing when one is legitimately wrong is a sign of strength and character. Apologizing just to avoid standing up to strong opposition and those who want to bend you to their will, however, is a sign of weakness. Worse, it weakens the cause of free expression and individualism; it weakens democracy.
UPDATE (7/26): Reportedly the video has been shortened by 6 seconds, with the BLM rioting clip removed. I presume this was with Aldean’s approval.
Ethics Alarms 
Not apologizing for being a jerk doesn’t make one an ethics hero in my book. That seems like a very low standard of heroism.
Someone didn’t read the post.
I read it. Jack admits that the song was “in your face.” I would go further and say it was intentionally divisive, demeaned America’s cities, and rejected American values such as toleration of free speech. The singer is a jerk. That his critics may have gone too far in some of their criticism doesn’t change that.
And Jack made it clear that he considers him a hero for not apologizing merely because of social pressure.
You’re ignoring that fact in order to call attention to what you want to discuss.
I think there are reasons for him to apologize besides social pressure.
Analogy: If I punch someone in the face, and then lots of people demand I apologize, and I say I won’t apologize just because of social pressure, does that make me ethically heroic?
But you know that’s a terrible analogy (I know it’s early.) It’s a real problem that a growing number of people see words and art they don’t like as the equivalent of a punch in the face. One is an important right, the other is battery, a tort or a crime.
They don’t need to be equivalents for the analogy to work.
What if I refuse to apologize for calling someone the n word, or hoping for Trump’s death by a heart attack? Both would result in a lot of social pressure for me to do so. Sometimes social pressure is good and right. You may think there is too much social pressure on Aldean at the moment, but that doesn’t mean he has nothing to apologize for.
It doesn’t mean he does, either.
If your hypothetical person decided to apologize because of social pressure and not because he understands the unethical behavior he engaged in, then he’s a weenie.
And that social pressure you mentioned is neither inherently good nor bad. It shouldn’t even register in your decision-making process (Jack’s #1 ethics rationalization!). So someone who, deciding that they are acting in an ethical manner, ignores social pressure, demonstrates courage and heroism. Their decision-making may be flawed (like a person who decides to release a deadly disease in the name of saving the environment), but they’re still demonstrating courage by not letting the crowd dictate their actions.
No, and that’s a dickhead question.
What exactly is wrong with demeaning America’s cities?
Before you answer, take a moment to reflect on the fact that you yourself just wrote “The singer is a jerk.”
–Dwayne
Sure, animus against the places where most Americans actually live is fine when you share that animus…Jack described the song as having “patriotic undertones” in another post, but when did disdain for American cities and their residents become patriotic?
If the tables were turned and the song was about how stupid and backwards rural people are and how they wouldn’t get away with certain behaviors in the city, I doubt it would be getting such warm reception on here, or on the right in general. You would rightly understand that he was being a jerk.
“when did disdain for American cities and their residents become patriotic?”
When the cities enact insane, abusive, unconstitutional pandemic measures. When they impugn the police and get citizens and police killed by doing so. When they cheer on rioters while refusing to protect law abiding citizens? When they become “sanctuaries” for lawbreakers? When their mayors tell businesses that are owned by individuals who support policies their party opposes that those business are not welcome in the city and they should “get out”? When they try to control how much soda you can drink?
Too easy. Give me a hard one, after I have some coffee.
Take some Viagra with your coffee, and you’ll have a hard one in no time. 😀 Honk! Honk! Wocka! Wocka
Ok. I could go on a rant about a bunch of sins common to small town America here too, but again, I don’t think that would be accepted here. Just say he doesn’t need to apologize because you agree with him politically.
Beneath you. Getting frustrated because you’re out of ammo? I don’t “agree with him politically”—his is meat-axe politics. I don’t believe anyone has to apologize because a mob doesn’t like what they say or right…or sing.
Jack Marshall wrote, “What makes it a heroic moment is that he didn’t apologize. “, “I don’t believe anyone has to apologize because a mob doesn’t like what they say or right…or sing.”
I completely agree and I also think the following would be appropriate to say…
I don’t believe anyone should apologize because a mob doesn’t like what they say or right…or sing.”
Aldean had absolutely nothing to apologize for and refusing to apologize to the mob is heroic in this totalitarian minded cancel culture age of rage. Those that thinks Aldean should apologize to the hate filled totalitarian minced cancel culture mob is showing signs of being a brainwashed ignorant sheeple and part of the problem in the 21st century.
These totalitarians will come after you foolish foolish ignorant sheeple too.
“These totalitarians will come after you foolish foolish ignorant sheeple too.”
~Yeppers~
In a just and perfect world, the fascist totalitarian Left will go after the wokesters first thereby providing the rest of us with a head start.
I don’t agree with the message in NWA’s “Fuck Tha Police”, but I don’t think they need to apologize for it either. You seem to think that people are obligated to apologize when they offend leftist sensibilities. There is no such obligation. If leftist sensibilities are offended by political opinions that do not align with their own, that is their problem and no one else’s.
It is valuable to allow people to express their opinions, whether other people agree with them or not, without imposing consequences. You cannot have a debate over an issue of contention without everyone being free to express themselves. If you cannot have a debate, societal problems go unaddressed, grievances pile up, and society ceases to function. Preventing people from talking does not stop them from disagreeing with you, or eradicate opposition. It actually increases opposition. The people you silence will start defying you simply out of spite.
Null Pointer,
I am glad you brought up Fuck the Police (I intended to), as I do not recall many other instances where singers have been called on to apologize for their art (though I think that was one).
Cop Killer was another.
But, I don’t think Fight the Power, an overtly political and subversive song, got demands for an apology.
Now, when artists make statements (e.g. the Dixie Chicks), that is a different matter.
But, getting upset about the content of a work of art should be a different matter.
-Jut
Masked Avenger wrote, “Ok. I could go on a rant about a bunch of sins common to small town America here…”
Please don’t hold back on our account, rant for us, we’re all interested in seeing what these sins common to small towns might be. I live in a small town and I’ll give you a completely honest evaluation of your claims.
I’ll hold my breath…
I think this is muddying the water here and what is being argued.
The song obviously implies that any rioters/protesters that show up in a “real, small American town” with their anti-American crap, won’t make it “very far”
Come try that shit here…see how far you can get.
It’s, at the very least, highly confrontational, and at the most, a direct threat and highly divisive.
Sure, if the song was about not tolerating crime, that’s fine, but it’s way more than that. They’re talking about taking care of their own and essentially taking the law into their own hands.
Which again, I guess is fine if rioters are breaking into your house but the song implies that the protesters would be dealt with, old west style, if they try that crap.
The message seems very obvious.
Rioters aren’t protesters except to CNN. Well, other mainstream media propagandists too, I guess. Never mind.
They are criminals. Rioters should be confronted and stopped. Anywhere. If it were my call, I’d hold that deadly force by law enforcement should be acceptable…but it’s not.
Ryan mentioned rioters and protesters. The song doesn’t mention rioting, but it does mention protected protests like stomping on the flag.
Yeah, I’m confounding the song with the video. And now the rioting footage is taken out of that.
I can’t imagine why anyone would have animus against places like crumbling Detroit, violent Chicago, and ungovernable Seattle and Portland. Disdain became patriotic when the cities stopped being patriotic and became all about wokeism.
We have an entire rising generation that honestly believes that the United States is a horrible place.
Are all those people jerks that need to apologize? Almost any reddit discussion quickly devolves into how much the US sucks. Are all those people jerks too?
The entire thesis of Jason Aldean’s song is that the United States—at least the parts where the majority of Americans live—is a horrible place.
The majority of Americans do not live in locales where the conduct he’s condemning is common or accepted.
The conduct he’s condemning isn’t common or accepted anywhere. It’s an entirely stereotyped and exaggerated narrative.
That’s just factually untrue. The BLM riots were not onlt accepted in cities like Portland and D.C., they were encouraged and praised. There’s still a giant “BLACK LIVES MATTER” painted on a D.C. street by order of the Mayor. San Francisco made shoplifting legal. Several cities have tried to ban firearms in defiance of the Supreme Court.
San Francisco did not “make shoplifting legal.” They changed it from a felony to a misdemeanor. You prove my point when you make such exaggerations. A BLM painting doesn’t automatically confer support for rioters; it was a huge movement that involved peaceful protesters as well. I don’t support rioting, but I do support the larger BLM movement. And while at times police acted with too much hesitancy and restraint during the riots, there were also, as I pointed out before, plenty of documented acts of police brutality against peaceful protesters in both DC and Portland; a quick Google search shows multiple cases still in court over this. I’ll grant you the firearms bans, but the portrayal of cities as lawless hellholes is just silly and belies the “tough guy” image Aldean is putting forward.
Baloney. S.F. made shoplifting de facto legal when it raised the amount that could be taken without incurring felony charges so high that became a no-risk proposition to steal merchandise in substantial amounts and of significant value. Combined with its DA’s policy of not prosecuting such misdemeanors, this amounted to making shoplifting legal. I was not exaggerating. You are engaging in sophistry. Just admit the inconvenient facts.
I’d still call that an exaggeration, but it’s a moot point—the song doesn’t even mention shoplifting. The closest thing to that in the lyrics is armed robbery, and certainly you wouldn’t argue that any city has legalized that.
I’m sorry. Are you saying there are huge populations in America who think it’s okay to spit in a ladies face?
Obviously big cities have more criminals.
The song isn’t even saying that.
We have an entire rising generation that honestly believe they United States is a horrible place.
Are they all jerks who need to apologize? A large percentage of Reddit threads quicky devolve into complaining about the United States. Do those people all need to apologize?
He’s just frustrated…
Remove the last three words from your first sentence and you have a timeless aphorism. Nice. Be proud.
But, who is the jerk here? Not Aldean who has nothing to apologize for. He has described the frustration many feel when government dodges one of its fundamental responsibilities, and he has indicated what the response could be in some communities.
A phrase comes to mind: “That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends … .”
The violent riots of 2016 with little consequence to rioters, the laughable and sickening “Summer of love” in Seattle, the progressive trend now to downplay or ignore criminal behavior, and more, all indicate that those who raise a voice against the ongoing destruction of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness deserve our thanks.
I remember one summer, my son was playing next door with some girls my neighbor was watching. The kids were between 4 and 7 years old. Suddenly, one group of young men walking down the street towards the liquor store met another group of young men walking from the liquor store. They were opposing gang members. My neighbor and I both saw it, so I got the kids into the garage. As the argument started and got heated, my neighbor pulled a gun and pointed it at them across the hood of his truck (he was one tough old man). Eventually, one of the gang members saw that there was a guy pointing a gun at them and they decided they should take their disagreement elsewhere. It was many years before we had such trouble again. When the trouble came, everyone on the street started open-carrying the biggest handguns we owned while mowing our yards. The gang members decided to find another place to be. We still see lone gang members on their bicycles looking for stuff to steal, but there isn’t a large presence.
“Try that in a small town” means “We will not be intimidated and we are not going to put up with that behavior in our neighborhood”. You should pray that you don’t ever have to deal with situations like that, but if you do, listening to ‘Try that in a small town” may give you some courage and resolve. Of course, you might get lucky and the disruptive, out-of-town criminal element (I mean civil rights group) that shows up intent on trashing your downtown may accidentally try to start their destruction at the clubhouse of a major 1%er motorcycle gang. Now THAT was funny, I don’t care who you are.
“Of course, you might get lucky and the disruptive, out-of-town criminal element (I mean civil rights group) that shows up intent on trashing your downtown may accidentally try to start their destruction at the clubhouse of a major 1%er motorcycle gang. Now THAT was funny, I don’t care who you are.”
Wow.
This could have been written in 1968.
“Of course, you might get lucky and the disruptive, out-of-town criminal element (I mean civil rights group) that shows up intent on trashing your downtown may accidentally try to start their destruction at the clubhouse of a major 1%er motorcycle gang. Now THAT was funny, I don’t care who you are.”
Wow.
This could have been written in 1968.
And it could still be written today. That says as much about the grift…sorry, activists’ failure to progress as it does about those fogey conservatives you dislike so much staying conservative.
It’s a broad generalization to say that there were “little consequences to the rioters.” In some cases that was true. But many of the protests were characterized by documented police brutality against even peaceful protesters. Ironic, given that the protests were over police brutality.
And in the other post I clarified that I wouldn’t have much of a problem if he had stuck to condemning rioters and other lawbreakers, but that I took issue with the parts of the song indicating a crackdown on free speech actions such as flag protests and cussing at police officers. I certainly don’t think it’s one of the government’s fundamental responsibilities to punish that, nor is it any community’s responsibility to do so extrajudicially.
“But many of the protests were characterized by documented police brutality against even peaceful protesters. ”
Where, when, by who, and what was done?
Now who’s sealioning? You could easily look this up. Or you could have paid attention to the news in 2020 and seen dozens of examples of police brutality at the protests.
I dunno, I was kinda busy watching the “mostly peaceful” protesters try to burn this nation to the ground.
I grew up inside the Beltway until I was 15 and then moved to a town with a population of 5,280 (I remember because 5,280′ = 1 mile).
It wasn’t a good idea to cuss out a cop or burn an American flag in either setting, but you wouldn’t be arrested for either.
In a small town, word travels quickly. Anonymity isn’t possible. The community would shun you, but you’d be safe from physical harm unless you decided to pick a fight with someone smaller and/or defenseless – like an old lady.
Spitting in someone’s face is assault, even if it’s in a cop’s face. The same is true for taking a swing at someone. The citizens might despise a person who chose to do those things, but it would be law enforcement, not a mob, that dealt with the accused.
Masked Avenger, I’m pretty sure you haven’t been in San Francisco or Los Angeles within the past five years. Nor have you ever lived in a town with fewer than 10,000 people. Is this true?
Why should he apopogize for exercising his constitutional right to free speech? I checked, he’s not Canadian.
That’s a dodge. The apology wouldn’t be for the exercise of speech, the apology would be for what he said. Why people sometimes apologize for things they say is something usually explained to small children by their parents.
“The apology wouldn’t be for the exercise of speech, the apology would be for what he said.”
Oh. HUH????
What is confusing about this? If I say something hurtful or offensive to someone, and later apologize, I am not apologizing for exercising my first amendment rights. I’m apologizing for being a jerk. No one is confused about this when the subject is anything but politics.
Saying that one’s opinion makes one a jerk is capitulating to intimidation. The most such conduct justifies is a non-apology apology. “I’m sorry my opinion upsets you. That was not my intent.”
Here’s the thing. There is absolutely a rural/urban cultural divide and it’s growing. Your perception is he’s being a jerk, and I don’t like the song, but it’s nonsense to say this song is about race. It’s about behavior.
“There’s this universal shorthand that epic adventure movies use to tell the good guys from the bad. The good guys are simple folk from the countryside …
… while the bad guys are decadent assholes who live in the city and wear stupid clothes…”.
https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-trumps-rise-that-no-one-talks-about
Since I grew up in a small town and only left for a short time, it took me a while to realize what was going on. Rural areas have a… idk slang, I suppose? Perhaps an exaggerated language to make points. It’s a form of teasing to see how you react. You see it all the time in the trades. There’s a social intelligence, in its own way. No one will stop you from practicing your freedom of speech, but you need to be prepared for the fallout because there will be one.
That’s what this song says. It says in small towns this poor behavior you find normal isn’t acceptable and if you try it, there will be consequences.
The best example was the mask mandate that everyone who wasn’t corporate (ie fast food) or a government employee or a doctor office (sometimes) ignored. I’m not sure if it was because we didn’t have the luxury of isolation because almost every business was “essential” and worked through the entire thing (therefore we were all mostly calmed down by July 2020) or if we tend to wear masks often during work and knew a loose piece of fabric wouldn’t work or what, but almost nobody wore masks, if you did, no one said anything either, it was your own personal choice.
Again, this is kind of a tacky song all around but whatever. I prefer ol Hank myself “County Boy Can Survive”.
You sure you don’t mean “Young” Hank . . . ?
–Dwayne
Yes, clarity here is required. Old Hank died young, and Young Hank is pretty old now. Old Young Hank is excellent, but Young Old Hank was incredible.
Ha. They’re both old to me. But yes, Hank Jr.
In case you have never gotten to country roots…
“ Because you can’t starve us out and you can’t make us run
‘Cause we’re them old boys raised on shotguns
We say grace, and we say ma’am
If you ain’t into that, we don’t give a damn”
Yeah, loved that song. A friend of mine from high school used to repeat “..but a country boy can survive” for just about every circumstance.
I think we agree. The alleged racial element is too thin for me to call him a racist—I think in that respect, people may be projecting their own experience with small towns. But you’re correct that it is tacky, and I find the whole “cities bad, small towns” good narrative bigoted in its own way.
“But you’re correct that it is tacky, and I find the whole “cities bad, small towns” good narrative bigoted in its own way.”
Bigoted? As bigoted as preferring a flavor of ice cream.
Ok I’m honestly curious whether you apply that same standard to pretty much the entire Left, who have almost nothing positive to say about the state of the United States.
Yep, If this country sucks so badly, then there are 194 other countries in this world. Pick one that suits you and go there.
I can’t respond to a generalization that broad. But yes, I would call communists who argue that the US is the worst nation in the world bigoted.
So are the discussions around events and such the modern version of Committee’s of Correspondence???
Plus with the ability to read and track communications, it pretty much would have to be face to face nowadays. Metadata is ridiculously able to pinpoint relationships even without access to the actual conversation
First rule of post-Obama America: never apologize if you didn’t do anything wrong. For so long the left has relied on common people’s courteous nature, and their willingness to accommodate others’ feelings, no matter how irrational. It’s how they pushed our society so far to the extremes, and so quickly. No longer. The best way to stand up to the insanity is to never apologize and never back down.
The left and it’s adherents just can’t stand the fact that sometimes they’re going to run into resistance, and sometimes pretty determined resistance, especially when they leave the blue cities.
In June of 2020 the small black community in the heavily Italian (and 80% white) town of Nutley, not too far from me, rustled up some support from Newark to “roll for rights,” meaning getting together a big crowd of black people, many of them on bicycles and skateboards, to go down to the center of town and generally raise mayhem. As a heavily Italian town, nutley of course has, heaven forbid, a statue of Christopher Columbus near City Hall. When the word spread what was going on, the Italians quickly figured out what was going to happen and showed up in force. Suddenly being faced with a bunch of angry construction workers, blue collar types, and business owners, the rolling stopped. If the police hadn’t shown up in rather large numbers to separate the two crowds I think someone would have opened a can of whoop-ass and things would have gotten really ugly.
Of course the would be criminals and destroyers back pedals soon after saying that, although they support the legal removal of monuments they don’t like, it was not their intention to destroy anything. Haha, if you believe that, I have a bridge to sell you. Of course they wanted to cast the Italians as the bad guys, because how dare we stand up and say no, we aren’t letting you trash our heritage and bend us to your will.
Jason Aldean is simply one more person standing up to this tidal wave of tyranny, and the left just can’t stand it. If you think he’s a jerk for doing it, I don’t know what to tell you.
What does “raise mayhem” mean? I looked up this protest you’re referring to and can’t find any indication of lawbreaking or violence on the part of the BLM protesters in Nutley, nor any evidence that they intended to illegally remove the Columbus statue. Yet you call them “would be criminals and destroyers” and seem to imply that without the police there, the Italian counterprotesters may have started attacking them. Aren’t you confirming the whole critique of the song here? That it’s about an attitude of paranoia and suggests a violent (and possible racially tinged) response to not only lawbreaking, but free speech?
That’s because the police got there fast enough to interpose barriers (and bodies) and UNICO and the Columbus Day parade committee told their people to stand down, they had enough people on site. I didn’t imply that the Italians would have attacked first, don’t try to manipulate what I said. I said that “someone would have opened a can of whoop ass,” I didn’t say who it would have been. With a few hundred angry people assembled on a hot day with emotions running high all it takes is one wrong word that goes too far or one gesture that can be misinterpreted, and things erupt, and who struck first might never be known.
Paranoia nothing. This was during a time when our heritage was under attack by mobs and no one was doing a damn thing about it. If you don’t agree, ask yourself what would happen if suddenly statues of MLK started getting trashed. Seriously, Chris? Is that you behind the mask?
“Open up a can of whoopass” usually connotes approval, or at least a lack of serious disapproval. When you disapprove of the group doing the violence, you usually say “assault.”
I find the MLK comparison bizarre. Is Columbus really as beloved a figure of Italian ancestry as MLK is to blacks?
And Chris who?
You interpret it however you like. And yeah, there’s a reason there are so many statues of him and so many “Columbian” societies, the “Knights of Columbus” and so on. And Chris is Chris, the troublemaker whose ass got banned five years ago for mocking Jack, about a year overdue. I think you’re the same.
Well stated Jack, since progressives virtually control most media; print, broadcast, and social. They have the ability and inclination to severely punish anyone and everyone who fails to adhere to their orthodoxy. Progressives have raised hypocrisy to an art form.
Progressives are champions of diversity if it is the right diversity. As Orwell stated in Animal Farm, “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. For White Folk and Asians, the line forms at the back. When it comes to diversity of thought, progressives will not tolerate it under any circumstances.
Progressives are defenders of the freedom of speech provided the speech meets with their approval. Just observe RFK Jr.’s recent treatment or Trump being banned by Twitter. You have freedom of speech provided you use only the first letter of certain words. These words are so evil that just their utterance regardless of context could result in termination of your employment. However, they are totally acceptable in rap performances and black standup comics.
Non-progressives can be demoted or fired if something they say makes others feel uncomfortable. If a progressive lies or makes non-progressives uncomfortable or causes hardship, it is no big deal. Ala Harry Reid’s lie about Romney’s taxes, “It worked, didn’t it?”.
As it has been said “The only thing necessary for evil to triumph in the world is that good men do nothing”. It seems we may be suffering a lack of good men or a lack of good men with courage. Evil sure seems to be operating without restrictions.
Is Aldean a good man? I have no idea. I have never heard of him before today. He is a just singer. In the grand scheme of things, he is irrelevant. It is not like he has some position whose actions can literally impact millions of people like maybe a House of Representative member or Senator. I view a Senate Majority Leader’s threats to the Supreme Court or a Congresswoman’s urging people to disrupt other government officials’ meals in public for failure to embrace progressive orthodoxy as a more serious breach of civility.
For those who support silencing speech, a Winston Churchill quote comes to mind. “Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.” Whether you physically lock a person up or just remove their ability to speak the effect, is the same.
Masked Avenger (above):”it was a huge movement that involved peaceful protesters as well.”
Um…what’s been goin’ on with ’em lately…?
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“I don’t support rioting, but I do support the larger BLM movement.” (emphasis mine)
You sure know how to pick ’em!
I “picked” a movement opposed to police brutality and racial injustice. I did not pick the leaders of the organization proper, nor have I donated any money to them. The opposition keeps finding Nazis among their ranks; does that discredit the entire conservative movement?
Awwww; MA gets caught with his (?) hempen homespun knickers down and promptly blames its suspenders?
Priceless!
Ask your fellow libs, who call ALL of us who are to the right of Abby Hoffman Nazis and every kind of bad “ists” there are.