No.
Cat? We had at least two threads lately on the same RS article. One was a blurb on Dylan's slavery comments from the RS article. One dealt with (if I remember) a Freeper's comment about how Dylan had upset the Reds by never buckling under to them.
The range of comments in the two articles was night and day.
.The 'slavery quotes' article kept calling Dylan "Zimmerman", calling him a commie, saying he had no talent, saying he was against the Vietnam War, included anecdotes of FReepers whose mothers said they cried in their cribs whenever they heard Bob Dylan . . . . and it was "Zimmerman" this and "Zimmerman" that.
Posters in the other article mentioned his talent, his pro-Israel works, his refusal to join the Red movement . . . and his was called Dylan.
It became clear, at least to me, that on the "he has no talent, he's a commie, he's a hard-core socialist, he was against the Viet Nam war . . . " thread, posters went out of their way to call him Zimmerman instead of Dylan.
My opinion. I appreciate hearing yours.
That is an interesting observation. I recall the two articles, though I don’t recall the insulting use of “Zimmerman”, and I’ll take your word for it. When I call him Zimmerman or Zimmy myself, it is without intention to insult or praise, as it were.
As I mentioned, he’s a little hung up on that dead Hell’s Angel Bobby Zimmerman, and talks extensively about transfiguration in relation to him (as well as misremembers the date of his death by 3 years.) Also, while we’re at it, the interview reveals as much about Dylan as about the obsession of the MSM (and RS is by now MSM.) For instance, the interviewer (Mikhail Gilmore, brother of and beneficiary as a journalist of the other Gilmore’s notoriety), presses Dylan to say something about Obama, and Dylan refuses and refuses, multiple times. The slavery quote itself can be read and understood in its full context.