{"id":1980879,"date":"2023-07-23T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-23T22:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rolling-stones-slam-of-jason-aldean-goes-sideways-after-flashback-to-its-support-of-ice-ts-cop-killer\/"},"modified":"2023-07-23T18:05:45","modified_gmt":"2023-07-23T22:05:45","slug":"rolling-stones-slam-of-jason-aldean-goes-sideways-after-flashback-to-its-support-of-ice-ts-cop-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rolling-stones-slam-of-jason-aldean-goes-sideways-after-flashback-to-its-support-of-ice-ts-cop-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rolling Stone&#8217;s criticism of Jason Aldean backfires due to its past endorsement of Ice-T&#8217;s &#8216;Cop Killer&#8217;."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frolling-stones-slam-of-jason-aldean-goes-sideways-after-flashback-to-its-support-of-ice-ts-cop-killer%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1980879&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rolling Stone&#8217;s Slam of Jason Aldean Goes Sideways After Flashback to Its Support of Ice-T&#8217;s &#8216;Cop Killer&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Long-time rock \u2018n\u2019 roll magazine \u201cRolling Stone\u201d was called \u200cout for its blatant left-wing hypocrisy after blasting country star Jason Aldean\u2019s new song\u200c as\u200c \u201cracist\u201d and \u201cviolent,\u201d even as it\u200d once praised rapper Ice-T\u2019s\u2062 song about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-hosted-ex-black-panther-implicated-in-torture-for-event-where-panelists-praised-cop-killers\/\" title=\"Dems Hosted Ex-Black Panther Implicated in Torture for Event Where Panelists Praised Cop Killers\">killing police officers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Leftist commentators have lined up like dutiful\u2062 little robots to attack Aldean\u2019s new song, \u201cTry That in \u200ba Small Town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019ve labeled it \u201cpro-lynching,\u201d \u201cracist,\u201d \u201cpro-vigilantism,\u201d \u2062and \u201cviolent.\u201d Meanwhile, conservatives and most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jason-aldean-concertgoers-send-message-try-small-town-critics-everyones-sensitive-nowadays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">country fans<\/a> have\u200d leveled counterattacks of their own, saying that the song is none of what the left claims and blasting progressives for engaging in its typical,\u200d fascist, cancel culture.<\/p>\n<p>While the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-dont-want-you-dan-bongino-blasts-aoc-over-maskless-florida-jaunt-tells-her-to-just-go-away\/\" title=\"\u2018We Don\u2019t Want You!\u2019: Dan Bongino Blasts AOC Over Maskless Florida Jaunt, Tells Her To \u2018Just Go Away\u2019\">anti-free speech left<\/a> has\u2064 been successful in getting the\u200b CMT channel to remove the song\u2019 s \u2063music video from its lineup, \u201cTry\u200d That in a Small Town\u201d has nonetheless \u2063become a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jason-aldeans-try-small-town-hits-1-chart-cmt-caved-woke-mob\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smash hit<\/a> and has landed \u200das No. 1 on Spotify and Apple\u2019s iTunes, all quite despite the efforts of the \u200bwoke mob.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial video is below:<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\">\n<\/div>\n<p>Regardless of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/leftists-enraged-country-star-jason-aldean-torches-blue-cities-new-music-video-try-small-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left\u2019s outrage<\/a>, not one of \u200bthe allegations the left is making against this song holds water. There are no allusions to race, guns are\u2062 not lauded other than a warning to criminals who want to break the law that \u201csmall town\u201d people \u200bare armed, nor does \u200bit tell \u2063people to go \u200cout and hunt \u200bdown lawbreakers. It \u2064merely warns lawbreakers that small-town America won\u2019t stand for their violence.<\/p>\n<p>The only\u2063 way one might see \u2063\u201cracism\u201d \u200din the\u200b song is in its references to street crime (\u201cSucker punch somebody on a sidewalk \/ Carjack an old lady at\u200c a \u200cred light\u201d), but that would in\u200b turn mean that taking all\u200b references to crime as automatically a reference to race, which in itself is racism.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, what really enrages the left is that the country star, who is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/country-singer-jason-aldean-wife-fire-shots-woke-using-halloween-costumes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">vocal \u2062conservative<\/a>, warns\u200c leftists, \u201cIf you\u2019re looking for a fight,\u2063 try that\u2063 in a small town.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The song came out \u200bmonths ago with\u2064 barely a notice, really. But\u2063 early this month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jake-owen-defends-jason-aldean-rock-stars-low-blow-try-small-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aldean<\/a> put out a music video for the \u200ctune and that is what \u2063drove the far \u200cleft into conniption fits.<\/p>\n<p>Likely because the video\u200c is replete with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rolling-stones-slam-of-jason-aldean-goes-sideways-after-flashback-to-its-support-of-ice-ts-cop-killer\/\" title=\"Rolling Stone's criticism of Jason Aldean backfires due to its past endorsement of Ice-T's 'Cop Killer'.\">real-life surveillance videos showing crimes<\/a> being perpetrated in big cities \u2014\u200c by perpetrators of \u2064all races.<\/p>\n<p>There is\u2064 one other part of the video that leftists are claiming \u2062makes Aldean\u2019s song about \u201cracism.\u201d Parts\u2063 of the video were filmed\u2062 in front of\u200b Tennessee\u2019s Maury County Courthouse, which was the site \u2062of a \u2064lynching almost 100 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>But, somehow the \u2063left never called \u200cloony left-wing singer Miley Cyrus a proponent of\u200b lynching when she filmed part \u200bof her \u201cHannah Montana: The Movie\u201d on the same site, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/jason-aldeans-controversial-courthouse-location-small-town-music-video-defended-production-company\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fox News<\/a> \u2063pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>Rolling Stone was\u200c one of the more shrill left-wing outlets \u200bto attack Aldean with its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-maga-white-nationalism-1234792031\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 20 screed<\/a> titled, \u201cHere\u2019s What\u2019s Wrong With Jason \u200dAldean\u2019s Vision of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s basically a one-on-one interviewer between Rolling Stone writer Jonathan Bernstein and Karlos K. Hill, a professor of \u00a0African and African American \u200bStudies at the University of Oklahoma.<\/p>\n<p>Hill is \u2064entitled to his \u2063opinion, of course, as\u2063 is Rolling Stone, but it would be helpful if it was more than simply \u2062viewing everything \u2064through a predetermined racial lensed.<\/p>\n<p>The professor called Aldean\u2019s song\u200d a \u201cdog whistle\u201d to the racist right, and claimed it is racist for\u200b comparing \u2063a \u201crural area where it\u2019s tranquil and calm and peaceful\u201d to the \u201cimages\u2062 of urban America on fire, with protests.\u201d\u00a0d.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of \u2062what I see and feel is just the conservative narrative of Make America Great Again,\u201d Hill said.\u200b \u201c\u2018Look at \u200bthe \u2064chaos, the ways America is unraveling. You better not try that\u2064 transgender stuff in \u200ba small town. You better \u2064not try that abortion \u2063rights stuff\u2062 in a small town.\u2019 That\u2019s the cultural \u2064polarization in this country. \u2064That\u2019s the irresponsible part.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, it\u2019s\u200c conservatives who are causing\u2062 cultural polarization?<\/p>\n<p>Rolling \u2064Stone\u2019s blathering caught the eye of many who noted that\u200c while this supposed \u201cmusic\u201d magazine is today railing\u2063 about \u201cviolence\u201d and \u201cracism\u201d and \u201cdog whistles\u201d with Jason Aldean\u2019s song, its heart went\u2062 all aflutter in 1992 when rapper Ice-T put his song \u201cCop Killer\u201d \u200bthat is \u2062explicit about murdering people, hating white\u2064 cops, and making a direct calling for violence in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>(Warning; The lyrics are full of obscenities and violence, but if you want to see them, they\u2019re <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songlyrics.com\/ice-t\/cop-killer-lyrics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">available here<\/a>,)<\/p>\n<p>Many conservatives jumped to social media\u2062 to blast \u201cRolling \u2064Stone\u201d for its \u2062hypocrisy of excusing rap song after rap song that describes beating \u2064up women, killing whites, killing cops, drug dealing, and any manner of\u200c other crime even as \u200cthe publication attacks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/jason-aldean-bolts-off-stage-mid-concert-ends-performance-early\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aldean<\/a> for his song celebrating \u200csmall town America for its love of law and order.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is the\u200c outlet that celebrated and defended Ice-T\u2019s \u201cCop Killer\u201d, and put him on \u2062the cover\u200b in regards to that call\u2064 for\u200c violence.\u200d Today, they are melting down when Jason Aldean does not call out for violence directly. Grow the hell up. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/A0MOX7pYoN\">https:\/\/t.co\/A0MOX7pYoN<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0uPqzs6x4n\">pic.twitter.com\/0uPqzs6x4n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Brad Slager: CNN+ Lifetime Subscriber (@MartiniShark) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartiniShark\/status\/1682098815858364416?\">July 20, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Has \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RollingStone?\">@RollingStone<\/a> ever \u2064done \u2063a story about domestic abuse and cop killer lyrics \u2063in\u200d hip hop? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EHKkwk0opo\">https:\/\/t.co\/EHKkwk0opo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GayPatriot (@GayPatriot) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GayPatriot\/status\/1682185999965716481?\">July 21, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Everything? Dam! Is it this song in particular, the singer, the genre? Do you have the \u200dsame opinions about violent hip hop like Ice-T\u2019s \u201cCop Killer\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jbone (@Jbone57675494) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jbone57675494\/status\/1682833881894903809?\">July 22, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">So Jason Aldean is catching A LOT of shit for his new song because of \u2063the lyrics\u200b in this video.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s highlight some music lyrics that aren\u2019t causing any controversy and see\u2063 why that might be. Shall we?<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 DMX: \u2018If you \u2062got a daughter older than 15, I\u2019mma rape her\/Take her on\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IAJoCMWvXw\">pic.twitter.com\/IAJoCMWvXw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Amiri \u200bKing (@AmiriKing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmiriKing\/status\/1681659266518663168?\">July 19, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The criticism must have gotten to \u201cRolling Stone\u201d because not long afterward, the magazine went into hyper defense and put \u200cout a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jason-aldean-right-wing-trolls-rap-music-1234787791\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">followup piece<\/a> blasting \u201cconservative trolls\u201d for \u200btrying to talk about rap music instead of Jason Aldean.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome right-wing trolls, \u200cthough, don\u2019t want you to\u2063 think\u2062 too hard about \u200bany of that. They\u2019d rather \u2063talk \u200babout rap music,\u201d the magazine wrote right after publishing its first attack on Aldean \u2014 who by\u200d the way is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-jason-aldean-doubles-song-crowd-breaks-usa-chants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not backing down<\/a>. The article went on to \u2064note that conservatives had been blasting \u200bIce-T\u2064 and saying how the 1992 rap tune\u200c evoked violence far more\u200b explicitly than Aldean\u2019s.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">When u grow up in a \u200dsmall \u200ctown, it\u2019s that unspoken rule of \u201cwe\u2064 all have each other\u2019s backs and we look out for each other.\u201d It feels like somewhere along\u2063 the way, that sense of community and respect has gotten lost. Deep down we \u200care\u200c all ready to get back to that. I hope my new\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b5E92j0YQ5\">pic.twitter.com\/b5E92j0YQ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jason Aldean (@Jason_Aldean) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jason_Aldean\/status\/1679840996371185664?\">July 14, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This redirection of the topic is typical the magazine insisted. \u201cThis is a familiar pattern to anyone\u2062 who\u2019s \u200bpaid\u200d attention to the past few decades of conservative punditry. When the heat\u2064 gets too high on the right wing, they try \u200dto change the subject to hip-hop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just to make sure the message got across, this is the summary\u2062 headline Rolling Stone used: \u201cWhen right-wing pundits change the subject to hip-hop, they\u2019re pulling from an old playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, there you have\u200d it. Don\u2019t look at Rolling Stone\u2019s decades of hypocrisy. Focus only on \u2064conservative \u201cplaybook\u201d \u2014 and the \u2064hate the \u200bmagazine wants to foster for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/brittany-aldean-refuses-bow-woke-mob-now-husband-target\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jason Aldean<\/a> and conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>Because, you see, \u200bconservatives are not allowed to concern themselves about making \u200ctheir \u200bcommunities safe \u2064for their families and to \u2064keep out the dangerous chaos fostered by the Democratic Party in America\u2019s deep-blue\u200d and\u2063 failing cities.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rolling-stones-slam-jason-aldean-goes-sideways-flashback-support-ice-ts-cop-killer\/\">Rolling Stone&#8217;s Slam of Jason Aldean Goes Sideways After \u2063Flashback to\u2063 Its Support of Ice-T&#8217;s &#8216;Cop Killer&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-standing rock magazine &#8220;Rolling Stone&#8221; faced criticism for its left-wing bias when it labeled country artist Jason Aldean&#8217;s new song as &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;violent.&#8221; This comes despite the magazine previously praising rapper Ice-T&#8217;s song about killing police officers. Leftist commentators have predictably attacked Aldean&#8217;s song, &#8220;Try That,&#8221; following the magazine&#8217;s lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":1980880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1980879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1980880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}