Kerry endorses Eminems new song

In a recent MTV Choose or Lose interview, Presidential hopeful and Herman Munster stunt double John Forbes Kerry stated:
Yago: Last time we talked, in March, you said that it's important to listen to hip-hop because it gives you a sense of what's going on in the street. Have you heard the new Eminem song that's been out?
Kerry: You know, I heard Eminem on "Saturday Night Live" last night. I heard the song that he did. I don't know if that's part of his new [album] or not. I liked it. But that's the only thing that I've heard in the last weeks.


The song in question contains the following lyrics:
Stomp, push up, mush, fuck Bush, until they bring our troops home...

Let the President answer on high anarchy
Strap him with AK-47, let him go
Fight his own war, let him impress daddy that way
No more blood for oil, we got our own battles to fight on our soil
No more psychological warfare to trick us to think that we ain't loyal
If we don't serve our own country we're patronizing a hero
Look in his eyes, it's all lies, the stars and stripes
They've been swiped, washed out and wiped,
And Replaced with his own face, mosh now or die
If I get sniped tonight you'll know why, because I told you to fight

...to disarm this weapon of mass destruction that we call our president,...


Nice canidate you've got there Dems. He likes lyrics saying "fuck Bush", calls Bush a liar and that says the President is a weapon of mass destruction. This is the same 'artist' under investigation by the Secret Service for threatening the President in his newest song "We as Americans":
Fuck money I don't rap for dead presidents I'd rather see the president dead


Eminem is free to sing what he likes, but to have a Presidential canidate LIKE this kind of message reveals a new light on the hatred that infects the Democratic party. Enjoy your four years of hatred Dems.
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. . . umm . . . I like this song . . .
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I'm not saying anyone can't like it. I'm just curious how you feel about a President that likes a song encouraging this kind of hate? What if the shoe was on the other foot...
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If I'm being honest, it doesn't bother me all that much. I don't have any illusions that Kerry is a saintly guy or anything. He probably should have kept his mouth shut on it, yes, but I wouldn't be upset with Bush for endorsing a similar song that spoke out against Kerry. It's not any different, to me anyway, than the hate-filled political ads being cranked out by both sides. Meh.
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I'm not saying anyone can't like it. I'm just curious how you feel about a President that likes a song encouraging this kind of hate? What if the shoe was on the other foot...


Sounds like the whole flap with Reagan wanting to use Springsteen's Born in the USA for his 1984 campaign.... honestly, I would want to keep my distance politically from a song like that!

The Lyrics
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This kind of thing goes way back. Examples including but not limited to Public Enemy and NWA off the top of my head. Woody Guthrie more subtly. It's nothing new for politic anger/opinion/call for revolution/stories/etc. to come through in music, especially music originating from people that don't feel represented, not to say that Eminem is included or not. I don't know how much of him is show.