Republican is the New Punk

Johnny Cash was punk rock. The birth of rock came when Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison and Cash toured small towns and set the youth on fire. Parents were outraged. The long dippity-doo hair atop gyrating men “dancing like the negroes”  before frothing young girls set mainstream culture against this rebellious little movement. It was our first smell of anarchy and it scared the establishment.

Johnny Ramone

The rebellious spirit of rock is dead. No better evidenced than by its formal endorsement of President Obama. Never before has rock been so central to the inauguration of a president. Bono is an ambassador in sunglasses who still knows how to pull a string and get an audience of thousands to put their fist in the air. (more…)

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Posted Jan 31st 2009 at 1:15 pm in Entertainment, Featured Story, Politics | 36278203 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtennapel/2009/01/31/republican-is-the-new-punk/Republican+is+the+New+Punk2009-01-31+21%3A15%3A24Doug+TenNapel