Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello Has 3 Words For Fox Pundits Scared Of Political Music
Tom Morello is baffled by the concern of political music exhibited on Fox Business this week.
The Rage Against the Machine guitarist responded Tuesday on social media to a section that noticed pundits decry Green Day’s efficiency on New Year’s Eve after the “American Idiot” band modified their lyrics to slam former President Donald Trump’s “MAGA agenda.”
The unique 2004 music famously had frontman Billie Joe Armstrong slam the “redneck agenda” of former President George W. Bush and his invasion of Iraq. Fox Business pundit Cheryl Casone appeared to not thoughts the observe — till it was modified to diss Trump.
“The original song was actually a post-9/11 song because the band at the time was upset about what was happening overseas in the Iraq War and all that,” she mentioned. “It’s probably their biggest hit, but now, to change it, to continue to make it political, you’re just alienating people.”
Morello responded to the clip on Twitter, previously X, with 3 easy phrases: “Is that so?”
That sentiment was echoed by numerous customers who not solely discovered the pearl-clutching on Fox hilarious, however completely hypocritical. The conservative community has, in spite of everything, beforehand platformed right-wing artists like Ted Nugent and Kid Rock for their very own hateful rhetoric.
“This same network gets analysis from Fabio and Paulie D,” wrote one consumer on X.
“The song was already (very unambiguously) about how much a republican and his supporters suck, I feel like I’m taking crazy pills,” wrote one other concerning the “American Idiot” observe. “Did they think it was a song about a random idiot going on adventures?”
Others had been confused by one other Fox Business pundit arguing that Armstrong is not “raging against the machine,” when Green Day is a separate band fully. That ignorance was presumably spurred by an X put up from Elon Musk, who owns the social media platform.
“Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” he wrote Monday.
Morello, who graduated from Harvard University with a political science main, has been a lifelong activist — who carried out at Occupy Wall Street occasions within the U.S. and Europe and co-founded the Axis of Justice nonprofit group in his spare time.
Rage Against the Machine has constantly shared their political opinions in music lyrics and performances. During their 2022 tour, the band displayed the message “Abort the Supreme Court” following the autumn of Roe v. Wade and pledged to donate to reproductive rights organizations.
Other customers joined Morello in criticizing the pundits for showing extra involved with music lyrics as an alternative of precise points affecting Americans.
