Another ConWeb Writer Blames Music Lyrics for AZ Massacre

[meegbear]

Interesting how right-wingers are desperate to shoot down any suggestion that political rhetoric played a role in influencing Arizona shooter Jared Loughner, but they're all too eager to blame it on music lyrics.

Following in the footsteps of WorldNetDaily's Jerome Corsi (who blamed the punk band Anti-Flag) and the Media Research Center's Brent Bozell (who blamed the metal band Drowning Pool), Bozell underling Terry Jeffrey plays the blame game in his Jan. 19 CNSNews.com column, this time singling out the band Slipknot.

Jeffrey is shocked that the band "calls its fans 'maggots'" -- even though it's really no different from, say, Glenn Beck calling his audience "sick, twisted freaks," and we don't recall Jeffrey being terribly bothered by that (his fans certainly aren't). Jeffrey also quotes from an article describing the band's appeal: "Slipknot's lyrics articulate isolation and frustration. Mostly, though, they articulate rage." Which makes it just like anyother aggressive metal band.

Jeffrey curiously singled out Slipknot, even though he named another band Jeffrey allegedly listened to, the Mars Volta. He doesn't explain why; perhaps he decided that a band employing disturbing imagery and wearing grotesque masks is much more easily demonized than a progressive-rock band who wrote an entire album about an adoptee's search for his biological parents.

http://conwebwatch.tripod.com/blog/

[ET Awful]

1. So let me get this right . . . . music lyrics can incite someone to violence but

spoken words (that are arguably much easier to decipher) do not have that effect?

I see. . . .

[spanone]

6. yes, '2nd ammendment solutions' means nothing to nutty people.

they trip over their own sick logic

[Systematic Chaos]

2. These people all need to go get laid.

Then they wouldn't be so uptight.

Dumbasses.

[Gold Metal Flake]

4. You gonna volunteer your time for that?

[Systematic Chaos]

11. Not with a roomful of Viagra and brown paper bags...and a borrowed....

:puke:

[EC]

3. And the bands were influenced by who?

It's very likely that many of these bands listen to the rightwing blowhards and get angry. Just like everyone else, but they make music to address the rage, while crazies do crazy things...go figure...

[Kurovski]

5. Keep trying, dorks.

Maybe Rush Limpbaugh (who is better known than all those bands put together) will pick up and promote those ideas. It certainly stinks of the usual steaming shit Herr Rushbo serves up on a regular basis.

[defendandprotect]

7. Guns, Mental Illness and American Manhood

Guns, Mental Illness and American Manhood

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/01/23-6

[Rebubula]

8. To be fair....

...many on this site were\are blaming people (Beck, Palin etc) for inciting him as well. Loughner never listened to any of them and they still got the blame.

Both sets of blame are silly as the man is disturbed mentally.

Beck, Palin etc WILL eventually incite someone to do something terrible (they will be mentally disturbed as ANYONE that shoots people for no reason will be) and then there can be further discussion about their responsibility (I still have a hard time blaming one person for the actions of another - but the case certainly can be made) and criminal\civil penalties. However, they are just ignorant assholes with nothing to do with this shooting.

[Kurovski]

9. Where you been, gurl?

beck already clearly has.

Do a search, or maybe someone has links ready made.

[Kurovski]

10. Here's a start...

http://mediamatters.org/research/201101130002