Right Wingers Unhappy Students Don’t Care About Benghazi

[TexasTowelie]

As classes were finishing up at George Mason University recently, an intrepid insipid conservative media reporter lurched at them with questions about Pharrell Williams and Benghazi to demonstrate just how inept relevant scholars are. In other words, once again contemporary conservatism’s anti-intellectualism has come to bite them in the ass.

The first question, “Who made the song ‘Happy’?” was supposed to gauge students’ awareness of pop culture. Easy enough; love it or hate it that song is everywhere and people who never heard of the Neptunes (Williams’ producing collaboration with Chad Hugo) or N*E*R*D* (their rock/pop/future band) have. People who’ve never heard ODB’s “I Got Your Money”, Jay-Z’s “I Just Wanna Love You”, Busta Rhyme’s “Pass the Courvoisier, Pt II”, Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot”, Nellie’s “Hot in Herre”, or Gwen Stafani’s “Hollaback Girl” have some familiarity with Pharrell’s silly hat and eternal youthfulness now. People may never heard of Clipse or Kelis, but we’ve all seen Ellen and those cute kids dancing to “Happy”.

Ok, but what’s the point, Jasdye?

The point is I’d much rather talk about Pharrell Williams than Benghazi, and so would most of the world. In fact, Pharrell Williams is more important than Benghazi. I’m not saying this to make fun of the Fox News crowd or others not familiar with Williams’ music. Musical and pop culture familiarity really has little-to-nothing to do with values and goodness – things that matter in life to me. I just wanted to focus on Pharrell Williams’ music because, like the students, I really couldn’t care less about the Benghazi of the ultra-right wing. There is another Benghazi, of course. It’s the second-most populated city in Libya and has more than a million people in its metro area. That Benghazi has real people who have nothing to do with rightwing appropriating Americans. Students would be excused for thinking that Dan Joseph of the rightwing Media Research Center is asking about a geographic, physical location, about a city with citizens. Alas, he isn’t. It’s not unlike when gun worshipers talk about “Chicago” as if homicide rates are for NRA talking points and not about our friends, neighbors, and children. As if weren’t not real people, but an excuse to loosen gun control even more (and end up with even more weapons on our streets. Thanks for that).

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[sakabatou]

1. Maybe it's because students know you're BSing.

[SummerSnow]

2. Good post..

You're right, people don't care about Benghazi.They care about their jobs, their paychecks,their children's health, food on the table, their mortgages,immigration, their rent, college tuition,....none of these things Republican politicians talk about. Then you have those who pretend to care about Benghazi so much don't care either.As long as they think this will lead to an Obama impeachment they'll keep shooting it in their veins like a drug.Benghazi is their own personal brand of heroin.

[oldandhappy]

3. Maybe students are sad that the RW does not care about student debt??