It’s September eleventh. I’ve been listing to 95.7 The Wolf – one of those radio stations cranking out a hot new country format. Callers call in and I hear their voices on the little tweeters in my truck’s doors.
“We need to get angry again, go back to those feelings we had six years ago. Back when we weren’t Democrat or Republican, we were all Americans, we were all angry together.”
That’s why I love this station. They say the darndest things. A song comes on, Kenny Chesney maybe, anyway, someone saying we didn’t become America by backing down. We need to go to war and fight because people died on 9-11.
My father and my new uncle feel the same way. We need to be in Iraq because of September 11th. We are still in the middle of the wrong war six years later and President Bush is still in power. He started a war with the wrong people! SIX YEARS AGO! AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVEN’t NOTICED!!!@!!%%^$#^$CRAZYYYY#$%&$^#@!
But what about these C&W guys who were featured on the 9-11 anniversary show, singing about war and Al Quaida in the same song? Wouldn’t someone in the chain of production point out that Iraq didn’t attack America? Is it easier to sell albums if you ignore the fact we aren’t fighting the people who attacked us six years ago? Is it easier to rhyme untruths?
If the President is confused, why would I assume a country western singer wouldn’t be? I guess because I expect more out of artists than i do out of politicians. Country music is kinda letting me down…
Would the 3,000 American’s who lost their lives be happy to know we are spending 1 billion dollars a week in Iraq? Or would they be saying, “What about Osama Bin Laden?” Would they be glad we decided to look for weapons of mass destruction in a country not linked or involved instead of going after the terrorist organization who carried out attacks with box cutters?
They call it a war for freedom on 95.7 The Wolf, but check around and see what the Patriot Act is doing to your freedom. Are you willing to let citizens be arrested without due process because they are “enemies of the state”? In a Republican controlled congress, Democrats are enemies of the state. Where does that leave us independents? Without a lobbyist to call. Maybe if we all get angry together, we can do something about the low quality of country music. Beyond that, it’s in the hands of the devil.