Conservatives rock! (Or not.)

Some of you have probably already seen the National Review list of the top 50 "greatest conservative rock songs". If not, well, you really have to see it to believe it. I'm still trying to figure out if this is the final evidence that The Right is incapable of irony, or startling evidence that they're actually irony-masters of the highest order.

The author admits that in order to have a list at all, they had to ignore the actual political beliefs of the songwriters and focus on the lyrics themselves. Or rather, their own...interesting...interpretations of the lyrics. Did you know that Led Zepplin's Tolkein tribute "The Battle of Evermore" is actually a conservative battle hymm? That "Janie’s Got a Gun", by Aerosmith, is an ode to the Second Amendment? Or that "Sympathy for the Devil" is a song about the evils of Communism?

The jaw-dropping choice for the number-one conservative rock song of all time: The Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again". (Pete Townshend was surprised to hear it too.)

Interestingly, of the few songs on the list that do clearly express sincere conservative sentiments, most are by bands that suck. Pickings must be pretty slim if any song by Creed can make your top-50.