The Left Will Devour Itself — Just Ask
Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner
PJ Media,
by
Chris Queen
Original Article
Posted By: DW626,
9/17/2023 6:33:41 PM
Jann Wenner is a giant of rock music history, even though he never fronted a band, composed a hit song, or produced a gold record. As the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, Wenner became a tastemaking publisher; for years, anybody who was anybody in popular music got a mention in Rolling Stone. Wenner’s clout also allowed him to co-found the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1987. Wenner is also a devoted man of the left. Rolling Stone’s coverage has always been unabashedly left-wing, and its co-founding publisher earned his bona fides protesting in Berkley’s Free Speech Movement and working for hippie rags like Ramparts.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 9/17/2023 7:52:09 PM (No. 1558290)
Leftist philosophy is inherently self-contradictory.
Just look at what they've done with the "women's movement" from the 1900's to today. All the progress only to find itself subjecting women to entirely genetic males who merely "claim" to be women. Such "inclusion" destroys the entire "movement" of the very sex they desired to raise up from male "oppression."
Fools.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JHHolliday 9/17/2023 8:33:28 PM (No. 1558300)
Good point, #1. Unfortunately, the media is all in on the worst of this. We can only hope that this trans insanity will wake people up but, considering that half the country seems to be carrying an IQ of less than a hundred, I am not optimistic.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
formerNYer 9/17/2023 8:42:57 PM (No. 1558302)
He sounds like a misogynist pig. If the left keeps canceling each other, there will none left.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Zeek Wolfe 9/17/2023 9:05:01 PM (No. 1558316)
Yes, the left came to power in the Soviet Union and things were not too bad until 1928. Jeseph Stalin came to supreme power at which point the people who elevated him were devoured.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
downnout 9/17/2023 9:11:02 PM (No. 1558319)
I’d love to know what he thought of the late, great Tina Turner. Now SHE was a rock star.
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"...it was just kind of my personal interest and love of them."
Indeed, it is his book. Actually, my respect for him just increased. Too little too late, though, after all those years of inducting rappers into his stupid hall of fame. The Sex Pistols said it best upon their induction: "Your museum. Urine in wine. Were [sic] not coming." Eloquently stated as only Johnny Rotten could.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
OhioNick 9/17/2023 10:44:23 PM (No. 1558361)
Years ago, Jann Wenner left his wife to be with a man. That's all you need to know about his character and sense of morality.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 9/18/2023 12:54:29 AM (No. 1558389)
I totally agree with Wenner. Anybody attempting to include rap artists in a group of musical genius is dreaming and has no taste. I wouldn't give you two cents for any of them. He could have included Tina Turner or Whitney Houston, but it was his book.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 9/18/2023 12:55:23 AM (No. 1558390)
FTA: “You know, just for public relations sake, maybe I should have gone and found one Black and one woman artist to include here that didn’t measure up to that same historical standard, just to avert this kind of criticism.”
Wenner's true transgression is he said the quiet part out loud. We're all supposed to not notice the Left's obsession with "representation" and "intersectionality". No one group may dominate any selection of "best of", no matter the criteria or the data. While they force us to walk on eggshells in our communications, we're not supposed to notice we're walking on eggshells. Should we actually take notice and dare to comment, then all factions of the Left begin caterwauling to the skies in anguish.
Wenner selected the artists he considered masters and defended his choices based upon his personal criteria. His pointing out that Grace Slick or Janis Joplin were not Rock and Roll philosophers does not make him a misogynist. It makes him a realist. His comments on the black artists were rough to our current culture's PC trained ears; but was what he said really untrue to his personal criteria, to the point it proves he purposefully excluded them due to racism? I don't believe so.
Although I don't personally approve of Mr. Wenner's lifestyle or political philosophy, I can still admire his courage to go against the current PC culture with this rhetorical middle finger.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
beancounter 9/18/2023 3:37:23 AM (No. 1558407)
Funny thing is I remember a lot of complaints back in the 80’s that Rolling Stone was overly infatuated with Prince.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2 9/18/2023 4:31:09 AM (No. 1558418)
The left definitely deserves to devour itself.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
MickTurn 9/18/2023 10:20:42 AM (No. 1558566)
Just another Leftist putting a tire pump in his azz to pump himself to be Impotent!
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Noj15 9/18/2023 1:12:54 PM (No. 1558688)
Dude never listed Alvin Lee of Ten Years After on the list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time. I never looked back.
*spit*
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