Jason Aldean Won’t Back Down to Woke Mob
The Rich Zeoli Show
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
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The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 4:
- Country Music Television has stopped airing Jason Aldean’s music video, “Try That in a Small Town”, where the singer speaks out against rioting and violence against law enforcement officers. The song has, bizarrely, become controversial because some have accused it of being critical of “left-wing” violence.
- On Thursday, Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified before a House Judiciary Subcommittee on censorship. Ironically, Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL) attempted to end the hearing before it even began—baselessly alleging that Kennedy harbored racist and antisemitic views. Kennedy vehemently denied Wasserman-Schultz’ reprehensible claims, exclaiming: "I want to say this while I'm on the record. In in my entire life…I have never uttered a phrase that was either racist or antisemitic."
- Conor Fitzpatrick— Attorney at Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE)—joins The Rich Zeoli Show to discuss a 17-year-old rising high school senior who was suspended after satirizing his school principal via a series of memes posted to Instagram. Though the memes were tame, the school suspended the student. FIRE notes, “the First Amendment bars public school employees from acting as a 24/7 board of censors, and the lawsuit seeks to cement Supreme Court law that schools cannot punish students for nondisruptive, private, off-campus speech.”
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| 0:30.0 | Enough with the left and your propaganda! And it is working! Welcome back to the show, our fourth and final hour here on Talkredage 1210 W-P-H-D. On Twitter, at Rich Zeeoli, thanks for hanging out with me tonight, of course, so you drive home. You know, yesterday I mentioned you, uh, Jason Aldean's song, Try That In A Small Town, which is now top the iTunes charts, millions of views, millions of views. |
| 1:00.0 | And the courthouse, if you remember yesterday, I had the conversation with Dr. Wilford Riley about this. The, uh, the outrage from the left, the fake outrage was that, uh, in 1932, I believe it was, there was a lynching of a, of a black man in front of that courthouse. And so therefore, the courthouse, the portrayal of that, the depiction of that, is a pro-lynching song. It's, it's, it's, it's the most, |
| 1:30.0 | ridiculous assertion you, you could ever imagine. And you never apologize to woke. Don't apologize to these people. Never apologize to the social justice warriors. Because when you do, they will keep coming. It's never enough. You cannot. But the, uh, the music video, the production company behind the music video, defended the location of, of the, of the shoot. Turns out Jason Aldean didn't even pick it. He didn't even choose |
| 2:00.0 | that courthouse for the location. The production company did tackle box is the name of this production company. And they cited other films and music videos that were shot at Tennessee's Mori County courthouse, including Hannah Montana, the movie. |
| 2:16.6 | So I guess we have to cancel Hannah Montana, the movie now, Hannah Montana, you're done. I guess, I, I don't know. This, this is, this is what I mean. The, the left comes up with their phony little little fights and things and they're a little, you know, and you know, for many times, people say, don't let them drive the narrative. |
| 2:39.0 | But I think you have to push back on this kind of crappy. You do. You have to push back on this. Jason Aldean seems a pro-America song. He shows video of all of these, these violent protests out there as the courthouses in the backdrop, beautiful American flag. He's in front of it. And they go, oh, well, so obviously, because 1926 1927, excuse me, was where this lynching took place 1927. |
| 3:06.4 | So because, you know, all those years ago, that happened. You're clearly sending a pro lynching message. |
| 3:16.6 | He got to push back on this. You have to push back on this. I remember Rush Limbaugh years ago, telling a story about how he was at the White House Correspondence Center and Bill Clinton made a joke that was depicting Rush as a racist. |
| 3:33.0 | And Rush demanded an apology. He wrote a letter to the president and he demanded an apology for that. And I remember what he said. He said, you can never let them paint you as a racist or an anti-Semite or anything else because if they do that, you'll be destroyed. |
| 3:54.0 | You'll be destroyed and that's their ultimate goal is to destroy you and silence you and shut you up. Now, that was obviously in the mid-90s when that took place. |
| 4:06.0 | So by this time now, I think everybody's so used to the accusations of it. It just kind of rolls off your back. But nevertheless, you can't let them accuse you of this stuff because this is what they want to do. |
| 4:21.0 | You know, I've argued a million times that if you want to talk about racist policies, being anti-school choice is the single most racist policy in the country right now because you're denying kids, largely kids who are black in failing schools, I've given the opportunity to go to better schools. |
| 4:38.0 | Every Democrat in America is against school choice, it seems. And against these opportunity scholarships, including Josh Shapiro, the governor of Pennsylvania, who just vetoed the bill. |
| 4:49.0 | But let's get to this point about Jason out here, right? So look at this courthouse and they scream and they go, oh my gosh, because this lynching took place in 1927. Therefore, it's pro lynching. |
| 5:05.0 | But how? How? |
| 5:10.0 | Tacklebox, the company that produced the music video told Fox News Digital that the courthouse is a popular filming location outside of Nashville that has been featured in a number of music videos and movies. |
| 5:22.0 | In addition, Tacklebox noted that the five-time Grammy award nominee did not pick the location. |
| 5:31.0 | Any alternative narrative suggesting the music video is a location decision is false, they wrote. |
| 5:39.0 | Scenes in the music video were shot outside the Moory County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, where an 18-year-old black man named Henry Chote was lynched in 1927. |
| 5:49.0 | News footage of looting and fires that were taken during the summer of love of 2020, I call that's what the, you know, the term you see the violence the left and burning America causing billions of dollars of damage, which you |
| 6:02.0 | We've never held congressional hearings over very few prosecutions over. No, no, no, back then, I mean the left was cheering them on. |
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