There's No Frakking Way Merle Haggard Was Kidding With The Reactionary Shit

He saw the market, and he pandered to it--cuz he likes money.  Country music became the voice for the shitheel racist cracker even more when the world was dissolving around those assholes in the 60s and 70s.  Haggard knew how to write a song, and he knew how to speak to those morons.  So he did.  That's the truth.  He may have claimed it was satire later on, but that's bullshit.  He should have owned up to pandering to those idiots because they were his audience.  He knew what he was doing with those dumb songs.  He was  a country music icon, so he had no reason to pretend otherwise.  Racist assholes listening to country music is as old as America.  Merle Haggard certainly understood that as well as any exceptional American ever has.  With this, the scandal is the coverup.  Haggard was better than his most offensive songs, and he should have copped to that shit, too.