I Embrace Smart Liberals as Honorary Conservatives

In response to my rhetorical and baseless article, I Hate Most Liberals Because of Their Transparent Wanton Hypocrisy, Doc B followed-up with a thoughtful and insightful comment.

“That couldn’t be more incorrect. What Zappa explicitly addressed in his testimony– and why he became so quickly unwelcome– was the RIAA’s quiet quid pro quo deal with the PMRC: ‘you use your influence to get congress to enact a tax on blank recording media and we’ll put your labels on our records.’ (All the while realizing of course that such labeling could only help sell more records by otherwise thoroughly un-noteworthy acts, e.g. 2LiveCrew.) In fact, Zappa’s own marketability was in some ways perhaps benefited by the boogieman of censorship as he went on to compose a number of popular pieces (amongst Zappa fans, anyway) about the whole episode and even went so far as to apply his own mock ‘warning/guarantee’ to his records thereafter even though as owner of his own independent label he was most definitely not a party to any deal between arch-enemy Warner and the PMRC. And he was not worried about his own sales should he run afoul of content laws as Wal-Mart wasn’t stocking his product anyhow.”"In great part, the musicians who appeared at the hearings were has-beens (Dee Snider) or evergreens (John Denver– whom no one would ever accuse of peddling profanity,) none of whom had all that much to gain or lose regardless of what happened as a result of the “controversy.” (If Prince had appeared, that might have been a different case, but he didn’t.) You may be correct in your observation that much of the pontification we see from the usual Hollywood suspects may smell kind of funny, but this case is really not a valid example to support your premise. These were by-and-large earnestly concerned citizens who also happened by virtue of their celebrity to be in a position (albeit perhaps as targets?) to express their opinions in a public forum, the whole point of which, it may be argued, was to garner publicity for some congresspeople’s own ego-driven political ambition.”

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