Robyn Hitchcock, Devil's Radio

I saw something go whizzing by on social media about Ross Douthat, the village idiot at the New York Times, claiming that liberals were to blame for the groypers, the online storm troopers of the neo neo Nazi movement that has taken over America. Um, yeah, no. I think decades of a constant onslaught of hatred on media might have more to do with that. Which made me think of this song by Robyn Hitchcock, which has the immortal couplet "Kate said, the flowers of intolerance and hatred are blooming kind of early this year. Someone's been watering them...." And that someone is the Devil's Radio. Rush Limbaugh gets a callout in the song because it was written like 20 years ago and he wasn't dead yet, but there's a lot more than him out there filling the public airwaves with the message to hate your fellow man.

This is the version from Jonathan Demme's lesser-known concert film, Storefront Hitchcock.