I just happened upon a top-40 list of Conservative Pop Music. The songs on the list were chosen because they "embody religious or patriotic themes, as these are unambiguously conservative values." The list oddly includes a few Beetles songs, including "Revolution" and George Harrison's"My Sweet Lord" (as well as numerous references to "The Taxman"). The rationale for including "My Sweet Lord" is interesting: "The inclusion of this song may be controversial because of its non-Christian lyrics. However, I take the view that being deeply religious makes the song per se conservative, even if the religion is Hinduism or Buddhism.". Deeply-held religious convictions are unamiguously conservative values... like the deeply-held convictions of the World Trade Center bombers? (I know, that last comment was probably self-evident/redundant to anyone who'd be reading this page).

Among other songs on the list are James Brown, "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," and "I Fought the Law and the Law Won," chosen for its "strong law and order message." He gives honorable mention for the same reason to the song "Hang Down Your Head, Tom Dooley." I thought this was especially appropriate, since the historical figure, Tom Dula, was probably innocent of the murder for which he was executed. There's a group in North Carolina that's pushing for a pardon of Tom Dula, on the grounds that "the evidence used to convict him was circumstantial. There was no weapon, no witnesses to place him there and all the key witnesses against him were all suspects themselves." This Article has more information on Tom Dula.

I think the mention of Tom Dooley is extremely appropriate in this list, given the importance that conservatives tend to place on the death penalty, and their general tendency to be ignorant of cases in which innocent people are the victims of their agenda...