If I’m ever Back on the Chain Gang, I want to be shackled right next to Chrissie Hynde, the lead singer of The Pretenders, who sang that 1980s song.
Actually, I’m generally a little Middle of the Road on their music. But I enjoy hearing The Pretenders’ hit My City Was Gone used as intro music on Rush Limbaugh’s radio program.
With permission.
Some time back, Hynde gave the okay because her late father was a big Rush fan.
Wait — there’s more!
“Liberal rock star Chrissie Hynde,” the UK’s Daily Mail reports, “has shocked her fans by praising Donald Trump for honoring conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, saying her father ‘would have been so delighted.’”
In an open letter to President Trump via a series of tweets, Hynde noted the awarding of the Medal of Freedom to Mr. Limbaugh as one reason that her dad, had he lived to see it, “would have enjoyed your Presidency.”
Hynde explained that she and her father “didn’t always see eye-to-eye. We argued a lot.”
“But isn’t that the American way?” she asked. “The right to disagree without having your head chopped off?”*
Of course, when Rush Limbaugh announced his cancer diagnosis, it did not stop some “progressive” political opponents from mocking him and celebrating his misfortune. Hynde faced plenty of nasty backlash, too.
Still, her obvious caring for humans with whom she happens to politically disagree sparked more
“Ohh. Careful ma’am,” Otto replied to @ChrissieHynde and @realDonaldTrump. “If we stop hating each other we might start noticing how corrupt and self serving the political class is.”
It is eminently observable.
This is Common Sense. I’m Paul Jacob.
* The rock star also lobbied the president, calling Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange “a man who sought to defend Freedom” and arguing that he “should now be set free. Please consider my plea.” I hope Mr. Trump will.
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