Livin’ It Up in the Hotel Islamofascism?

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The Eagles have always annoyed me (“Hotel California” ranking as the number one depressing song ever to be played at parties), but I can’t let a right-wing critique of the boring 70s band go without a fight.

Warner Todd Huston this week dissed The Eagles’ new album, Long Road Out of Eden, in his blog on the website NewsBusters: Exposing and Combating Liberal Media Bias for “attacking the integrity” of the United States and forgetting to mention the “Islamofascists trying to blow us all up” in their lyrics. Sure, it’s important to be cognizant of terrorist activity, but what lyrics could possibly rhyme with the word “islamofascism?”

First of all, since when do we expect concise political commentary from The Eagles? Personally, the band’s songs are more likely to conjure up yawns from me than activism. Second of all, why is Huston wasting almost 2,000 words on an essay dissing a laid-back, folk-rock-pop band that hasn’t released a studio album in 28 years? Surely there are other bands, artists, and organizations out there with much more influence and a bigger following who are much more worthy of some conservative backlash.

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