Joe Wilson: Trapped in Obama-Dylan continuum?
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 10:09 pm
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Several explanations have surfaced for U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson’s outburst during the presidential address to Congress Wednesday, including policy-induced ejaculation and an anger-compensation scheme you might call pay-for-bray. Here’s another, spookier theory: Wilson was caught in a Barack Obama-Bob Dylan heckling continuum.
As Wilson was first being fingered as the heckler, lapsed Minnesotan Alex Pareene dug into his rap sheet: “According to nonpartisan sources @CongJoeWilson is the guy who shouted ‘Judas’ at Dylan.”
Pareene was conjuring up the 1966 incident at a concert in Manchester, England, at which a disgruntled folk devotee heckled Dylan with a Biblical reference. “I don’t believe you,” Dylan responded. “You’re a liar.”
It’s a short jump from Dylan’s “You’re a liar” to Joe Wilson’s “You lie!”
(If only Obama had answered Wilson by shouting “Judas!” … that would have been bringing it all back home.)
Heckling victims Dylan and Obama, meanwhile, are members of a mutual admiration society:
Interviewer: What else did you find compelling about [Obama]?
Dylan: Well, mainly his take on things. His writing style hits you on more than one level. It makes you feel and think at the same time and that is hard to do. …
For his part, Obama revealed to the Associated Press that the original Dylan-goes-electric tune is what’s on his iPod:
Actually, one of my favorites during the political season is “Maggie’s Farm.” It speaks to me as I listen to some of the political rhetoric.
2 Comments
Comment posted September 11, 2009 @ 5:45 am
Isn’t Joe Wilson an hoot and a half? It truly is an amusing thing to behold. The extreme right wing is having a collective, massive nervous breakdown. They just can’t come to terms with the nasty little fact that a black guy is the most powerful human being on the planet. It really is kind of funny – to a point.
Here’s what’s happening, boys and girls: The so-called “party of Lincoln” has been forever exposed as ideologically bankrupt and they are in the process of implementing their “scorched earth policy”. In other words, if they have to go down (and down they are going) they’re going to bring the rest of the country down with them. That is what is happening. If you think the right wing has lost its collected marbles, as Al Jolson used to say, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet”. There is violence down the road. Count on it.
Sound paranoid? Stay tuned.
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Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
Comment posted September 11, 2009 @ 10:57 am
It’s funny that Obama likes Maggie’s Farm because the song is a rejection of socialism.
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