Max Blumenthal's Jihad Against Toby Keith Continues

Blumenthal's blue in the face stupid ass rant is here.

Blumenthal is also a chicken shit, as he has deleted all three posts I have submitted on his spittle flecked ruminations on his antipathy for Keith and his song, Beer for My Horses.

In that post, which I submitted over the past weekend and was too tired to copy and leave here, I accused Blumenthal of giving Keith the full McCarthy (as in Joe, not Eugene) and that he was getting exercised over nothing

I also pointed out that Blumenthal is making a martyr of Keith much as how the publicity that the PMRC gave to heavy metal and rap groups helped those outfits go platinum largely after those records had bombed commercially (2Live Crew and Ice T.'s Body Count come immediately to mind) and was thus actually making progressives look like a bunch of irrational politically correct zealots with no sense of proportion.

I further added that Keith's tune reflected a weariness with crime in the U.S. among working class whites and that Democrats had better hear that message or suffer the consequences.

Just to reiterate, I think Keith is a knuckle dragging dipshit. But the stuff he has said in both this song as well as in statements after this controversy flared up are emblematic of the thinking of millions of southern whites in America and it does Democrats no good to talk down to them. Rather, progressives have to tailor their message to persuade that bloc to see our side of things rather than just engage in knee jerk condemnations.