[lbo-talk] Bob Again (Was National Review's Top 50 )

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>On May 28, 2006, at 2:08 PM, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
>
>>In my right-wing days, we thought that
>>>Dylan's "My Back
>>>>Pages" was a great conservative song
>>><http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/
>>>>backpages.html>:
>>
>>Of course it is really more of an anti-political song
>
>I'm always amazed and amused by how Dylan fans - including my father- 
>in-law - don't want to admit to the right-wing content of the song.  The 
>way he spits out "equality in school" is not apolitical - it's  from 
>someone who hates the very idea. "Liberty" is a very right-wing  word. The 
>contempt for professors and abstractions is right out of  American 
>right-wing populism.

Hmm, I should have paid closer attention to Dylan.  He's even more loathsome 
than I'd thought.

Carl