The "conservatarian" nerds at National Review never miss an opportunity to embarrass themselves in ways that defy logic.

Lacking real conservative rock stars (other than the embarrassing Ted Nugent and Alice Cooper), the NRO gang decided to forcibly appropriate some of the greatest rock songs in history and claim they are "really" conservative anthems. Of course, even the casual viewer would take notice that the vast majority of the songs that the Republicons are trying to hijack were composed by extremely liberal artists. Many of these artists would fit into what they contemptibly dismiss as "dirty hippies." Also, these songs were written in a context of struggle of liberal ideas against a conservative establishment (ahem, "the sixties" that the "conservatarians" seem to hate so much).

True to form, the New York Times, instead of laughing at this preposterous idea by Republicans to usurp rock classics as "conservative anthems," published the entire list and gave props to the National Review: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/25/arts/mus...

You can get an idea of the ridiculousness of this proposition by checking the top 10 alone:

1. "Won't Get Fooled Again," by The Who.
2. "Taxman," by The Beatles.
3. "Sympathy for the Devil," by The Rolling Stones
4. "Sweet Home Alabama," by Lynyrd Skynyrd
5. "Wouldn't It Be Nice," by The Beach Boys
6. "Gloria," by U2
7. "Revolution," by The Beatles
8. "Bodies," by The Sex Pistols.
9. "Don't Tread on Me," by Metallica
10. "20th Century Man," by The Kinks

The only one I would possibly, by a stretch of the imagination describe as a "conservative anthem" would be "Sweet Home Alabama." And still, I doubt it is.
Yes, they include the Sex Pistols. Yes, the same ones of "Anarchy in the UK." Read the article, because your brain will do somersaults at the twisted logic and rational stretches the NRO nerds made to justify their selections. I kid you not: they called the revolting, scatological lyrics of "Bodies," by The Sex Pistols a family-values "anti-abortion anthem." Unreal.

To add to the hilarity of this lists, they added Bob Dylan, The Clash (yes, THE CLASH as CONSERVATIVE ROCKERS!!!!!), Creedence Clearwater Revival, and many others.

Just to give you the coup de grace on this charade, they end up the piece by listing "Stand By Your Man," by Tammy Wynette as the number 50 of their list of "conservative ROCK anthems." Truly surreal, to say the least.

I guess the NRO geeks got bored of making excuses for the Iraq war, and decided to focus on some other interests.

PS: AOL, of course, is making a poll about this list. They love this shit. You can vote if you consider these songs "conservative" at the bottom of this page:

http://news.aol.com/entertainment/music/da...

PS: the funny thing is that Ted Nugent or Alice Cooper are nowhere to be found in this list