So, What The Hell Is Wrong With The Message?

It’s irrelevant whether or not you like country music – which for all intents and purposes is the equivalent of Top 40 music just decades ago. It’s also irrelevant whether or not you care for Jason Aldean’s music. If you care about free speech, facts, and the truth; if you care about what the neo-fascist woke are doing to Western culture, then you necessarily have to be outraged at the banishment of a song from CMT (Country Music Television) by arguably one of country music’s biggest stars today.

Aldean has released ten albums and 40 singles that have gone quadruple-platinum, double-platinum, and platinum. He has received five Grammy Award nominations, twice for Best Country Album. 27 of his 38 singles have reached No. 1 on the major ratings charts. To say that he is popular and that his art is well-known would be an understatement of “Grand Old Opry proportions”.

Yet, CMT has seen fit to censor his newest release, Try That In A Small Town, without explanation. According to Billboard Magazine, “CMT reportedly declined to comment on their decision to stop playing Aldean’s music video, however, the network did confirm with the outlet that the clip has officially been removed from its platform. “

Judge For Yourself

Watch the video and you will see that the message advanced in the music video – and through the lyrics (printed below the video) – is one that supports law and order and condemns the neo-fascist and gratuitous Left-wing violence that: a) envelops every major city prior to General and Mid-term Elections for political and ideological purposes, and b) is now considered the status quo in our major American urban centers; places like Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, Seattle, Portland, etc.

The song’s lyrics read in part:

Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk
Carjack an old lady at a red light
Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store
Ya think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya like

Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you're tough

Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town

Got a gun that my granddad gave me
They say one day they're gonna round up
Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck

Try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town

Full of good ol' boys, raised up right
If you're looking for a fight
Try that in a small town
Try that in a small town

The Woke Clown Tears

The prevailing sentiment, as reported by Chris Enloe, is that the woke censors at CMT (yes, the woke have infiltrated everything and every place but then we shouldn’t be surprised since CMT is owned by Viacom, which owns CBS) were outraged about two things, “First, the video was filmed outside a Tennessee courthouse that was the site where 18-year-old Henry Choate, a Black man, was lynched in 1927. Second, the song, according to its critics, glorifies guns. Anti-gun activist Shannon Watts, for example, has celebrated her role in getting CMT to pull Aldean's music video.”

Now, if you’re anyone with an IQ over that of a decaying turnip, you are having a hard time finding any “pro-lynching” advocacy or gun glorification in the lyrics to Aldean’s song. Further, all of the violence depicted in the video for the song is video documentation of Left-wing violence – not violence vested in racism or gun advocacy, but violence perpetrated by neo-fascist, Left-wing radicals and condoned – and in some cases celebrated – by woke, neo-fascist, Left-wing elected politicians.

Aldean himself responded by saying:

“There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it – and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage – and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music – this one goes too far.”

I couldn’t more vociferously agree.

Time To End This Stupitidy

The woke neo-fascists who have infiltrated CMT had to stretch so far to intimate racism they had to go back to 1927 and “re-imagine” that Aldean and his video producers not only knew that the backdrop for some of the music video had an obtuse history related to a singular instance of lynching but that they purposely decided to make a clandestine statement in support of lynching Black people.

To believe in that stunted line of thinking is to declare that Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Joe Biden are racist because they speak/spoke with the White House as a backdrop since Andrew Jackson was once president. Or that Hillary Clinton is a racist because she disingenuously adopts a Southern accent when on the campaign trail in Southern states.

Only an absolute ignoramus – a complete and utter moron – could stretch the notion to touch reality. Honestly, it would defy any semblance of brain activity to sign on to that idea. Only the jadedly uber-racist could see racism in Aldean’s backdrop.

As for supporting gun violence? I beg you to show me where. Even in a comedic sense, I can’t create a stretch enormous enough to find how that assertion can be made.

Jason Aldean and his song aside, we have to – all of us – wake up to the reality that people who see racism and the support of gun violence in his song – a song that celebrates community, helping one another, and countering neo-fascist, ideologically self-serving, violence that destroys the property and lives of innocents – are the ones running our country. We have to answer to the likes of them because fifty-one percent of the sixty percent of the population that bothers to vote in the United States elected them to office.

Defending Free Speech & The Heartland

The arts have always been solidly safeguarded by the inalienable right to free speech. Even those who found the art pieces of Robert Mapplethorpe (Self Portrait with Whip) and Andres Serrano (Piss Christ) reprehensible acknowledged their right to produce them as being covered under the blanket of free speech.

Robert Mapplethorpe’s Self Portrait with Whip (L), and Andres Serrano’s Piss Christ (R). The latter is a photograph of a crucifix submerged in urine

But a country music star writes lyrics that celebrate Judeo-Christian values, the support of our Constitution, law-and-order, community, and opposition to the neo-fascist, woke movement that has openly declared they want to see the destruction of the United States, and suddenly the delicate flowers of the micro-aggression-prone, censorship crowd discard free speech rights? Free speech for me but not for thee??

Nope. Bite me.

And, for the record, I agree with Aldean. Don’t try that in a small town.

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