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Here’s how the hit song begins:
"I’ve been sellin’ my soul, workin’ all day
Overtime hours for bullsh-t pay
So I can sit out here and waste my life away
Drag back home and drown my troubles away
It’s a damn shame what the world’s gotten to
For people like me and people like you
Wish I could just wake up and it not be true
But it is, oh, it is"
The legacy press can’t even comprehend it. Journalists abandoned ordinary workers and ordinary voters to promote leftist-approved victim groups. There was a time when journalism was a working-class profession. Reporters understood how hard life was for blue-collar men and women. They knew the sounds of broken hearts and empty stomachs.
Now reporters stare at those people like they are visiting a zoo, amazed they even exist.
That’s been much of the reaction to the song. Either that, or outright hate. Variety decided to question the credentials of Anthony, whose real name is Christopher Anthony Lunsford, because it couldn’t question the honesty of the song itself. "Is viral sensation Oliver Anthony too good to be true? Too ‘right’ to be true? Or an authentic working-class hero, which is something to be?"
Mashable was equally confused: "Who is Oliver Anthony and what's the deal with 'Rich Men North of Richmond?'" The AV Club had a similar curiosity, asking, "‘What is ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ and why is it suddenly everywhere?" Of course, that piece also had to pretend it was somehow about "the Confederacy."
No, folks, Richmond is only about 100 miles from D.C. But the gap might as well be light years away. That’s not history. It’s geography. Take a class, preferably not in a public school.
The New York Daily News resorted to the traditional tactic and declared it simply a "right-wing ‘anthem.’" The Independent slammed the song as "‘offensive’ and ‘fatphobic,’" by quoting random Twitter accounts. Rolling Stone, Rolling Stone whined that "right-wing influencers" were "losing their minds."
Journalism-ing.
And the New Yorker made a leap big enough to jump the Grand Canyon, tying the song to, "reactionary nostalgia that pines for the days of sundown towns."
They don’t get it. Look at the words:
"Livin’ in the new world
With an old soul
These rich men north of Richmond
Lord knows they all just wanna have total control
Wanna know what you think, wanna know what you do
And they don’t think you know, but I know that you do
‘Cause your dollar ain’t sh-t and it’s taxed to no end
‘Cause of rich men north of Richmond"
"Rich Men" sounds just like Woody Guthrie wrote it, but when he was alive, the left at least pretended to care about ordinary people. Not anymore. And certainly, the press doesn’t either.
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