The Patriot Post® · Jason Aldean Calls Out the Rabble
It’s already been quite a week for Jason Aldean. Not only did his latest song, “Try That in a Small Town,” get yanked by the weak-kneed wokesters at Country Music Television, but it also soared to number one on the iTunes chart shortly thereafter.
The two incidents are related, of course. The song is viral, its success has brought Aldean untold millions in short order, and he has the Angry, Unhinged, Over-the-Top Left to thank for it.
We last mentioned Aldean last summer, but only in passing. It was then that his wife Brittany was set upon by that same leftist cancellation mob after having offended the transgender cultists in a lighthearted Instagram post simply saying: “I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase. I love this girly life.”
Like her husband’s song today, that Instagram post also went viral, and it was thereby shared with millions more people than would’ve otherwise seen it. As with her husband, Brittany Aldean has the Angry Left to thank for it.
As Jonathan Turley observed: “Protest songs have long played a critical part of our political dialogue, from ‘Yankee Doodle Dandy’ to ‘War.’ This controversy only helps highlight how the corporate effort to control what people hear or consume is backfiring.”
Some people never learn. But to them we say: Keep the overwrought indignation coming.
As for Aldean’s song, it’s a throat-punch to the dirty rabble — white, black, and brown — that have run roughshod over the country since the George Floyd riots of three years ago. As The Daily Wire reports: “The 46-year-old country singer’s song hit the airwaves in May, but it wasn’t until he released a video for it on July 14 that the song started generating headlines claiming it was ‘racist, 'pro-lynching,’ and more. … Aldean has hit back against the criticism, calling it ‘meritless’ and ‘dangerous.’”
Indeed, what could be more meritless and dangerous than phony charges of lyncherdom? The song is an equal-opportunity call-out, and the lyrics and video bear this out. Nowhere is race mentioned, and the footage of destruction is multiracial, from antifa to Black Lives Matter.
Cuss out a cop, spit in his face
Stomp on the flag and light it up
Yeah, ya think you’re tough.Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road.
Racist? Please. “There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it,” said Aldean in a lengthy Twitter statement, “and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage. And while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music, this one goes too far.”
The song is also a reminder that we have within ourselves what it takes to defend our communities against this onslaught and this irresolute response by our criminal justice system. As Fox News’s Jesse Watters puts it:
The mob is trying to chip away at your values and right to self-defense, by trying to cancel Jason Aldean. They’re horrified at the fact that Aldean’s anti-crime. They say he’s promoting violence by showing the riots, but I thought they said those same riots were “mostly peaceful.” They’re calling his video a lynching anthem too. Why? Because someone was lynched at the courthouse a hundred years ago. But they said nothing when Paramount and Disney filmed movies there.
It’s plain and simple: they’re trying to scare you out of defending your land, family and property. And once you’re scared, you’re easier to control. Then it’s open season on all of us.
Jason Aldean clearly cares about his country. Why else would he write such songs about it? And he’s seen not only the best it has to offer but also the very worst. The darkest. The most unspeakable. On Sunday, October 1, 2017, Aldean was in Las Vegas, performing at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. That’s when a sicko opened fire from his 32nd-floor hotel room at the adjacent Mandalay Bay hotel, murdering 58 people and wounding more than 500.
So when folks come at him with phony charges of racism, he’s not inclined to get his feathers ruffled. Still, he punched back hard. And we’re stronger as a nation for it.
Updated with an additional quote from Jason Aldean.