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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMix Don McLean, tinfoil-hat paranoia and outright stupidity, and you get this guy...
This guy is NOT writing satire.
He earnestly believes his own drivel.
Like most people in America and elsewhere in the English speaking world I've heard the refrain "bye, bye Miss American pie" wailing into my eardrums a thousand times and never had a clue what its singer was talking about, nor, frankly, did I give a dam, having never heard of Don McLean before or after his more or less one-hit wonder.
But today [May 2004] I got a clue as to its meaning after reading a news story about Asian and Indian immigration into the United States that contained the following sentence: "The Indian American Leadership Initiative is an organization that seeks to entice more Indian Americans into politics, the 'last slice of the American pie'."
As soon as I read those words the song "American Pie" jumped into my head and it occurred to me that maybe what the song was about was the take-over of America by foreign elements. Upon looking up and reading the lyrics my suspicion was more than confirmed.
The lyrics appear to be about a satanic communist take-over of America after a nuclear explosion has destroyed the ecosystem.
http://www.orwelltoday.com/americanpiesong.shtml
bemildred
(90,061 posts)What is tricky is being right.
Archae
(46,379 posts)Is being correct, and not looking like a total horse's ass.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)Archae
(46,379 posts)Just write these three letters, and there will be flames...
GMO
bemildred
(90,061 posts)I think we don't disagree, but you express it more forcefully.
Some words it's like throwing a grenade.
Edit: I never liked that song. It's the kind of song that everybody hears what they want to in. Like Dylan, but he is better at it. And the guy in the OP is way out there in the middle of his own imagination.
Archae
(46,379 posts)I read "Right Wing Watch" on a weekday basis.
Any and every right-wing nutcase is documented there in loving detail.
They keep reminding me of General Ripper in "Dr Strangelove."