Re: National Review’s Top 50 Conservative Rock Songs
On May 28, 2006, at 1:41 AM, mike larkin wrote:
- “Neighborhood Bully,” by Bob Dylan. A pro—Israel song released in 1983, two years after the bombing of Iraq’s nuclear reactor, this ironic number could be a theme song for the Bush Doctrine: “He destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad / The bombs were meant for him / He was supposed to feel bad / He’s the neighborhood bully.”
Odd choice. In my right-wing days, we thought that Dylan’s “My Back
Pages” was a great conservative song
A self-ordained professor’s tongue Too serious to fool Spouted out that liberty Is just equality in school “Equality,” I spoke the word As if a wedding vow. Ah, but I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now.
It has it all: a swipe at the liberal professoriat, the contempt for
equality, the preference for “liberty”…
Doug