Alan Jackson, Democrat, wrote a song two years ago about the effect corporations and their financed business entities were having on the rural and small-town South. It’s very poignant and conveys a strong message:-
More Southerners Contradict the Professional Left
by Marion •
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Jackson is from Georgia, a strong and lifelong Democrat, who admires the President. For the twentysomething know-it-alls who aspire to be the next generation of Professional Left Punditry – like David O Atkins, who hates the South and so has reinvented himself as a Californian, or Zaid Jilani, who hails from Jackson’s state and claims to be a proud Southerner, but who refuses to address racism of any sort (because he’s from the “Left” where it doesn’t exist) – it’s so nice to know they’re carrying on the tradition found amongst the current elitist and exclusive Professional Left of terminal headupassitis.
That’s a hat trick of Southern voices who’ve shouted out for the President recently – Toby Keith, Alan Jackson and Kentucky’s own George Clooney. Ms Wasserman-Schultz has got the makings of an army of Obots to march into the South and campaign for the President, if she chooses to ask them to do so.
It still makes no sense. Was your point that there *is* a ‘professional left’ because there are progressive/liberal commentators on the airwaves or in cyberspace? They’re not an organized body, they do not always agree with each other, and they present news and investigative reports with their slant on it – that’s all. I still feel that calling them ‘the professional left’ is a misnomer. It’s not only a misnomer, it’s a lazy way to group disparate individuals.
Be that as it may, to imply that Alan Jackson ‘contradicts the professional left’ means zero. He is by no means the only progressive in the South or country music performer.
So the guy in the video thinks differently than, say, Cenk Ugyur or Bill Maher? So what? I do, too, on certain issues. I still feel they both ‘nail’ the essence of political/economic problems in this country far more often than many others who have similar jobs.
Are you defending this story because you’re ‘Marion’?