You know what NRO? I'm gonna give you part of your premise. Woody Guthrie was an open and avowed socialist and that is a socialist song bordering on a communist one. But see, that's a good thing, what with everybody having a right to their opinions and being able to throw them out into the ...what was that immortal phrase again? ah yes, "The Marketplace of Ideas"


"Pure" ideologies inevitably lead to the public stoning fo women for adultery and the blowing up of priceless cultural artifacts

Much better to live in country unafraid of having a little from column A AND a little from Column B. This leads to wonderful thinds like a free Market economy hemmed in by robust government regulation. A capitialist system with socialist features like a safety net and universal healthcare

soy_bomb: coeyagi: soy_bomb: Who didn't know that Woody Guthrie was a communist?
More importantly, in 2012, who actually cares?
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Oh, right, these big contributors to the gene pool.

I see the War on Women™ continues...

They just happened to be women. Nice strawman though.

Who in the world could hate Woody Guthrie? Seriously? That is nearly as stupid as the "how is that hope and change working out for ya?" crap. Yeah, guess it was stupid to think we could make our country better for all it's citizens. Guess it is some kind of America hating notion to think that all our great wonders should be available to everyone, from the lowest to the top. I guess we ought to get back to our regularly scheduled money worshiping.

What the hell is wrong with Fark today anyway?

Vodka Zombie: This land is my land
It's only my land
So get the hell of my land
before I shoot you.

The correct verse, as handed down by generations of Boy Scouts is:

This land is my land
It is not Your land
'Cause I got a shotgun
and You ain't got one

So if you don't get off
I'll blow your head off
This land was made for me
and not you

theknuckler_33: The crop yield dropped to a dangerous low, and the animal-husbandry operation nearly failed. Most people think that the Pilgrims suffered primarily from tough weather and tougher land conditions. But what really threatened their lives was bad public policy based on a bad idea.

Wow. It is shocking what these people have led themselves to believe.

Wonder if anyone ever pointed out that the early Christians were commies to this guy?

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Isn;t amazing that when that movie was made it was considered wildly over the top satire and now it seems tame compared to say, George Bush's 2004 campaign

soy_bomb: coeyagi: soy_bomb: Who didn't know that Woody Guthrie was a communist?
More importantly, in 2012, who actually cares?
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Oh, right, these big contributors to the gene pool.

I see the War on Women™ continues...

You seriously are this stupid/?

FTFA As Will Kaufman points out in his book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, the folksinger was not driven by progressive abstractions; he dedicated every part of his life to promoting economic, social, and racial equality for all, and he did so by pushing for a dramatic transformation of America itself.
Truly a horrible monster.

Magorn: Lenny_da_Hog: [i262.photobucket.com image 420x255]

Isn;t amazing that when that movie was made it was considered wildly over the top satire and now it seems tame compared to say, George Bush's 2004 campaign

It foresaw the Tea Party in detail. Brilliant stuff.

This land is your land,
this land is my land,
I drink your milkshake,
I drink it up.

soy_bomb: Corvus: You seriously are this stupid/?

If you are going to malign someone's intelligence, please do it without superfluous punctuation.

Best part.................... forever?

He's on your team, dude (or, maybe he IS you).

fuhfuhfuh: We just happen to have a bumper crop of right-kook articles thanks to them loosing their collective shiat over the bombshells the Obama team have been dropping on Romney.

The Bain stuff appears to have the right lashing out like Michael Meyers at the end of Halloween II just before Donald Pleasence blows him up.

coeyagi: He's on your team, dude (or, maybe he IS you).

Dramatic chipmunk.jpg!

Empty Matchbook: BunkoSquad: Aarontology: The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a socialist.

...but then saved by the addition of "Under God" in the 50s which was retroactively credited to George Washington and Ronald Reagan.

Had they retroactively retired by this point, or does it predate that?

It retroactively predates that. Twice.

Kittypie070: I think I hate myself right now. Yes, I did this. Help meeee.

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soy_bomb: Where are all the white women at (that are having war waged upon them by liebruls)?

What most Americans also don't know is that Guthrie didn't like his own country and wanted to fundamentally transform it along the lines of his heroes, Marx and Lenin.

Ahhh, that's the kind of simplistic, ignorant bullshiat I've come to expect from the right wing in this country...


In the squares of the city, In the shadow of a steeple;
By the relief office, I'd seen my people.
As they stood there hungry, I stood there asking,
Is this land made for you and me?

Evil Twin Skippy: Magorn: Lenny_da_Hog: [i262.photobucket.com image 420x255]

Isn;t amazing that when that movie was made it was considered wildly over the top satire and now it seems tame compared to say, George Bush's 2004 campaign

And who would have thought Network would turn into a blueprint for how to run the Media.

I can't tell you how many times I've yelled at a TV "Network was a SATIRE not a how-to manual!" at the Teevee much to consternation of my wife and my cat

Lenny_da_Hog: Magorn: Lenny_da_Hog: [i262.photobucket.com image 420x255]

Isn;t amazing that when that movie was made it was considered wildly over the top satire and now it seems tame compared to say, George Bush's 2004 campaign

It foresaw the Tea Party in detail. Brilliant stuff.

Holy Crap! I never thought of that but you are right! It nailed them right down to the "neo-colonial" fashion choices didn't it?

rufus-t-firefly: spongeboob: FTFA As Will Kaufman points out in his book Woody Guthrie, American Radical, the folksinger was not driven by progressive abstractions; he dedicated every part of his life to promoting economic, social, and racial equality for all, and he did so by pushing for a dramatic transformation of America itself.

Truly a horrible monster.

NOW do you see how close Nazis are to liberals?

Yes as in not very close at all.

I wonder what would happen if someone introduced them to John Prine?

COUNTRY MUSIC THAT ACTIVELY OPPOSES WAR? DOES NOT COMPUTE. ERORR.

/No your flag decal won't getcha into heaven anymore...

OF all the things, of all the mother farking things, OF ALL THE MOTHER farkING THINGS IN THIS MOTHER farkING WORLD THAT THESE MOTHER farkING REACTIONARY THEOCRATS COULD MOTHERfarkING TRY TO DO

WHAT THE MOTHER :DJNAWBN

I am so mad. So very very mad. And pissed off. Seriously. SERIOUSLY. SERIOSULYNWAT:AKJ

I can't even type correctly.

These.... 'people', and I use the term very loosely, can't even be called 'Conservative'. No, they're Reactionary - they want to roll things back.

Seriously.

My farking god.

I've endured countless things. I"ve seen countless things. And this, THIS is the final straw for me, with regards to the so-called 'Right Wing' here in the United States.

Civilization works because of common assent to the law, and common mutual respect for one another's property and rights. Modern Republicans cannot, therefore, be called 'Civilized', and they are destroying the Republic from the inside, much like a strong acid in a very soluable container.

My god.