What Do the Presidential Candidates Think About Music? Patrick J. Buchanan

What Do the Presidential Candidates Think About Music? Patrick J. Buchanan

Patrick J. Buchanan “Everyday we see new evidence of the corruption of our popular culture: Filthy art financed with tax dollars. Television steeped in raw sex and romanticized violence. Movies that mock religious faith. Music that extols social chaos.” Real or fake? “There’s the American music that the elitists at the universities want you to… Read more »

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Patrick J. Buchanan
Patrick J. Buchanan

“Everyday we see new evidence of the corruption of our popular culture: Filthy art financed with tax dollars. Television steeped in raw sex and romanticized violence. Movies that mock religious faith. Music that extols social chaos.”

Real or fake?


“There’s the American music that the elitists at the universities want you to believe is American music, and then there’;s the real stuff, the music of the American people, the ‘Battle Hymn of the Republic’ and ‘God Bless America.’ And there are new songs, there’s a new one by Steve Vaus, ‘Take America Back,’ something like that. A good, proud, American song.”

Real or fake?