Neil Young, Son of Famed Reporter, Records "Impeach the President" Song

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[Darkwolf377]

That was actually a response to Young's song slamming Southeners. My pet peeve is idiot yankees and others who like to stereotype ALL Southerners as racists, especially the movie and music industry. Typical movie about a backwards racist southern town full of hatred where an enlightened yankee comes down and shows us poor saps the error of our ways. (Warning: My sarcasm filter is off)

He wasn't slamming all Southerners. Just because there isn't a line saying "I'm not slamming all Southerners" doesn't mean he is doing so. The defensiveness of many Southerners in this regard has always been curious to me. Bringing in the "typical movie" reference out of nowhere is equally curious--what movie are you talking about as being typical of this mindset?

I'm merely playing devil's advocate here, but Young was singing specifically about one type of person who actually existed/exists. Denying that is irrational.

[Blind Eye Jones]

Neil is cashing in as hypocritical hippies do best. When there is nothing left ahead to look forward to, the past looks a warm cow that needs milking. Or maybe the grandfather of Grunge is going for the great grandfather of the Greenday and Rap Award. Yes, Neil the Gangasta peace child of the insufferable flog the dead horse crowd... whoa old Nelly Bang Shlang. Look what a life in the entertainment business does to someone who doesn't want to experience another career setback... Maybe he should do a hippie dance and on top on his new SUV and then do a back flip into Jimi Hendrix's grave.

[SupplySider]

Neil, you are so 1969.

So he imagines. If he'd cut back on the weed it might dawn on him that his political stance is conservative and status quo, not radical and revolutionary. The anti-Socialists and anti-Islamists are the rebellious anti-establishment minority now.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

He finally got around to writing about Clinton?

It's about time.

[kcvl]

Scott Young, who passed away last June at the age of 87, was a well-known sports journalist for both the Telegram (forerunner of The Sun) and Toronto's Globe and Mail, as well as the author of many books (including several hockey classics and the inevitable "Neil and Me'"). As a young man, he first worked for a Winnipeg newspaper as well as writing for Collier's, Argosy, and Sports Illustrated.

Before specializing in sports, he covered World War II from London for The Canadian Press wire service, as well as the Kennedy assassination. He frequently appeared on the "Hockey Night in Canada" Saturday night telecasts,

Scott Young gave up his newspaper career in the early 1980s, dismayed by what he saw as a bad trend in the journalistic profession -- the use of "unnamed sources." So, like his son, he was a bit ahead of his time.

When his father died last year, Neil said that he had learned from his father, "The most vivid way to get an idea across was to lay oneself bare in the knowledge that others would identify with the bareness, the sometimes painful truth." One of his most haunting songs begins, "Old man, look at my life, I'm a lot like you were," although reputedly inspired by another older fellow.


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[drew]

Sung to the tune of "Heart of Gold":

My career is down, it needs a boost
I'll make an album saying I hate George Bush
It worked for Green Day, a nice big pay day
Think I'll find the same new pot of gold, 'cause my schtick's gettin' old

[Berlin_Freeper]

Neil Young is a maggot.

What took him so long to "Impeach The President"?

If the Terrorists were not murdering innocent people in Iraq would he be making this music? I don't think so.

Instead of blaming the Terrorists for their murders in Iraq, the maggot Young targets our President who was reelected with the most votes cast for him in the History of the US.

The maggot Young places himself squarely on the side of the Terrorists. All polls from the MSM prove the Iraqi people themselves are glad the Coalition liberated them from the fully documented mass murderer and torturer Saddam Hussein.

In the maggot Young world, all those people who have been murdered by the Terrorists died not for nothing, but for maggot Young to fill his pockets for gold and to had the Terrorists a victory in Iraq.

Maggot Young is an enemy of innocent people. A dangerous inscrutable anti-American hysterical crapheaded Canadian.

[sono]

Now it's an album.

[claudiustg]

Neil Young lives just outside Santa Cruz, drug burnout and communist headquarters for the USA.

[Rakkasan1]

I'm waiting to hear " Deport the Illegals"...

[metalurgist]

Well, the biggest problem with that song was that the man was reaching for his trousers instead of his 12 gauge. It would've had a whole different ending.

If the man had been in his own bedroom and in his own wife instead of the man holding the 44s bedroom and wife they could have eliminated that verse.

[Hildy]

So a drugged out Canute singer, who is probably unknown in the states wants to impeach our American President.

Grandpa, no offense, but Neil Young is one of the most famous singer/songwriters from the late 60's to early 80's. I'd go as far as to say he's an folk-rock icon here in the States. Please stick to what you know about.

[Grampa Dave]