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FOX Business Calls Out Green Day, Forgets About Ted Nugent, Kid Rock

FOX Business called out Green Day (but not FOX "News" for Ted Nugent or Kid Rock, of course), getting the attention of RATM's Tom Morello.

Even though we're already into the second day of the new year, that doesn't mean that a lot of folks over on the right are done losing their collective shit over Green Day proving that they're Green Day during Sunday's night broadcast of the Ryan Seacrest-hosted 52nd edition of ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024. During the band's performance from the West Coast, Green Day launched into the title track from its 2004 album, American Idiot – and that's when a lot of Donald Trump followers got a reality check from the band. Because instead of the original line, "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda," lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong updated it to, "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda." Feeling betrayed by a band they claimed to be fans of but apparently never actually listened to their music, a number of them took to social media to whine their way into 2024 – but it wasn't just the fans. Over on FOX "Business" (sorry, but anything even slightly associated with FOX "News" gets the quotation marks), three talking heads (we're going to skip the names because they're all interchangeable anyway) took some broadcast time to show us just how much they don't know about Green Day… the history of rock music… how FOX "News" operates… and the reality of how ratings work. In fact, the entire conversation was so painfully vapid that a clip of it caught the attention of Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine – someone who knows a thing or two about the power that music has to force important, meaningful change.

In the following clip, the trio (though the dude on the left might just be a prop) discuss the moment from the New Year's Eve special. Of course, a lot of it is built around the idea that people don't like to have politics preached at them by musical artists and that they should "stick to what you're good at," questioning just how much musicians even know about the issues they comment on. Just to be clear? The alleged business network's flagship, FOX "News" has routinely had such "fine scholars" such as Kid Rock, Ted Nugent, and Gene Simmons from KISS to comment on topics during segments that resemble SNL sketches that didn't make the cut. Also, the entire foundation of rock was built on resistance – and if there ever was an agenda that deserved pushing back on, it's Trump's MAGA manifesto. And to the one talking head in the clip who brought up the issue of what "MAGA" means to them? Well, I can't speak for them – but if I could, I would say that the MAGA agenda is Trump & his worshippers' efforts to "Make America Great Again" (MAGA) by dragging the country back to a time that only worked for white, straight males and pretty much sucked-ass for everyone else.

UPDATE/Bad News for FOX "Business": FOX "Business" should stay out of the ratings business, too. Though one of the talking heads said she didn't believe the show would do any real ratings – guess what? ABC's Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest 2024 was up 30% in primetime, with an average of about 8.4M viewers tuning in from 8-11:30 pm on Sunday. In addition, the late-night edition scored a jaw-dropping 18M viewers – topping out at 22.2M by the time the ball dropped. So it looks like Green Day contributed to the show's huge success. Whoops.

And here's a look at Morello's tweet from earlier today – with a response that we can imagine came with a chuckle and seriously arched eyebrow:

Here's a look at the official clip of Green Day's performance that was released by ABC on New Year's Eve night, followed by a look at the portion of the song when Armstrong changed the lyrics to take a direct shot across the bow of Trump and his worshippers (once again, courtesy of The Tennessee Holler). Following that, we have a look back at the original music video for the single – because you can never hear that song too many times:

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