Neil Young Finally Responds (Hilariously) to Dana Loesch’s Decades-Long Grudge
One of the stranger side plots to emerge in the recent NRA drama is Dana Loesch’s relentless hatred of Neil Young.
As Newsweek reported last month, Loesch, the conservative author and NRA spokeswoman, has been railing against the Canadian songwriter for more than 20 years, including many tweets in which she insists that his voice resembles “a bloated cow farting and dying all at once.” If her tweets are to be believed, Loesch has been nursing this grudge since she encountered Young’s single “Downtown” from the Pearl Jam collaboration album Mirror Ball in 1995. (Loesch then tweeted out our story and confirmed that she still hates Mirror Ball.) MORE…
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.