{"id":15865,"date":"2014-06-02T17:14:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T00:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=15865"},"modified":"2014-06-02T17:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T00:19:13","slug":"right-wing-media-attacks-twelve-year-old-musicians-because-their-parents-are-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=15865","title":{"rendered":"Right-Wing Media Attacks Twelve Year Old Musicians Because Their Parents Are Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"

The true conservative ethic is once again on display as a prominent rightist media organization launches a vile attack on twelve year old children who formed a rock band. The impetus for the attack was simply that their parents are Democrats. For the Family Values set, that’s reason enough to go after kids.<\/p>\n

\"Twenty\/20\"<\/p>\n

The Washington Free Beacon is a Republican operation with ties to the Koch brothers. An article<\/a> by Sonny Bunch, the managing editor, sports the headline “Awful Children Release Awful Song.”<\/em> While nobody cares what this lunkhead thinks of their music, it is utterly deplorable that he calls the kids, whom he certainly has never met, “awful.”<\/em> If Bunch has a problem with the politics of their parents, he ought not to resort to the cowardice of attacking the kids. What sort of sick pervert does that?<\/p>\n

The group, Twenty\/20, was featured in a brief profile<\/a> in the New York Daily News when they released a video of a new song (video below). The young players met at the Sidwell Friends School in Washington, which they all attend. Their parents are some of President Obama\u2019s top advisers: Jay Carney\u2019s 12-year-old son, Hugo, is the lead singer. U.S. Trade Rep. Mike Froman’s son Ben plays guitar. HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan\u2019s son Lucas plays bass. And Obama campaign adviser Patti Solis Doyle’s son Joey is the drummer.<\/p>\n

Those familial relationships was all it took for Bunch to dish dirt on these kids. He described them as being kids “who can kinda hold a guitar or prance around the stage while whinily singing nonsense.”<\/em> Then he predicts that the “little twerps”<\/em> will “probably have a keynote gig at the Democratic convention.”<\/em><\/p>\n

But Bunch isn’t through with his juvenile insults. After inviting you to listen to their “caterwauling”<\/em> he expects you to agree that “we can reach bipartisan consensus that this song is utter shite, right? “<\/em> Then he reviews young Hugo’s singing saying that he “sounds like the whiny, nasally, prepubescent whelp that he is.”<\/em> Remember, these are twelve year olds he’s talking about. Yet he sounds more like a whiny whelp than they do.<\/p>\n

Finally, Bunch attempts to preempt criticism of his craven child abuse by mocking those (like myself) who find it disgusting to take out your political aggression on innocent children. But he defends his immorality by suggesting that because Carney’s kids were part of a magazine’s family profile a few weeks ago, they are now fair game to be maligned by the allegedly mature editor of a puerile rightist rag. I only hope that if he has any kids they don’t suffer the same sort of depravity that he is shoveling here. But then again, they are likely already suffering from having such a dipshit for a dad.<\/p>\n

Here is the video of Twenty\/20’s song “Heart Thief.”<\/em> It may not be U2, or even The Ramones, but it shows promise and eagerness. They are clearly having a good time and demonstrating a commitment to something more creative than video games. They should be encouraged to continue to express themselves – as should all kids. As for Bunch, he should be encouraged to shut his fat, ignorant, hateful mouth.<\/p>\n