{"id":31429,"date":"2021-08-13T17:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31429"},"modified":"2021-08-13T17:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-08-13T17:48:50","slug":"don-mclean-plays-nra-annual-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=31429","title":{"rendered":"Don McLean Plays NRA Annual Meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:3639,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/twitter.com\\\/bitterb\\\/status\\\/1426183710022455300&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/bitterb\\\/status\\\/1426183710022455300&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3640,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.etix.com\\\/ticket\\\/p\\\/4014927\\\/nra-150th-anniversary-celebration--nra-annual-meeting-of-members&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3641,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/genius.com\\\/Don-mclean-american-pie-lyrics&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310003241\\\/https:\\\/\\\/genius.com\\\/Don-mclean-american-pie-lyrics&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-16 15:26:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 17:49:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-30 17:49:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3642,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.smashwords.com\\\/interview\\\/KTu46&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.smashwords.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3643,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.bbc.com\\\/news\\\/magazine-32196117&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bitterb\/status\/1426183710022455300\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">A tweet by Bitter<\/a><\/strong> brought up that Don McLean was playing the Saturday musical event at the NRA Annual Meeting. I never pay much attention to that event as I never go. I would agree with her that he should have gotten top billing and I mean no disrespect to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etix.com\/ticket\/p\/4014927\/nra-150th-anniversary-celebration--nra-annual-meeting-of-members\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lee Greenwood o<\/a>r <\/strong>any of the other performers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I still remember how we analyzed the lyrics to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Don-mclean-american-pie-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">American Pie<\/a><\/strong> in 9th grade English with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smashwords.com\/interview\/KTu46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mr. Tutt<\/a><\/strong>. From what I understand McLean never every explained them but I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/magazine-32196117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>our analysis was pretty close to this story by the BBC.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So with apologies to Mr. McLean and because it is the NRA Annual Meeting, I&#8217;ve taken a little license with his first three stanzas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>A long, long time ago<br>I can still remember how the NRA<br>Used to make me smile<br>And I knew if I had my chance<br>That I could make those politicians dance<br>And maybe we&#8217;d be happy for a while<\/p><p>But January made me shiver<br>With every paper I&#8217;d deliver<br>Gun control on the doorstep<br>I couldn&#8217;t take one more step<br>I can&#8217;t remember if I cried<br>When I read about Biden and his guy<br>Something touched me deep inside<br>The day the freedom died<\/p><p>So, bye-bye, Miss NRA<br>Wayne drove his Chevy to the levee, but the levee was dry<br>And the good ol&#8217; Board was drinkin&#8217; whiskey and rye<br>Singin&#8217;, &#8220;This&#8217;ll be the day that I resign<br>This&#8217;ll be the day that I resign&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>A poet or lyricist I&#8217;m not. However, I&#8217;m still furious about untold amounts of wasted money going to Wayne&#8217;s Rasputin when it could have been used to assure that the Senate remained a bulwark against more gun control. How Wayne&#8217;s paranoia forced out Chris Cox from ILA who might have prevented one, if not both, of the senators from Georgia going to the Democrats. Most of all, I&#8217;m disgusted that the Board has acquiesced to all of this and many still think Brewer is the smartest guy in the room when he clearly is not.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tweet by Bitter brought up that Don McLean was playing the Saturday musical event at the NRA Annual&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5501,5754,5753,353,27],"class_list":["post-31429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2021-nra-annual-meeting","tag-american-pie","tag-don-mclean","tag-satire","tag-wayne-lapierre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31432,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31429\/revisions\/31432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}