Greedy GOP Tries to Steal Cash's Legacy

Further proof that Republicans believe they are entitled to own everything, including the legacy of the dead. First it was Sinatra signing on the big screen after Rudy Giuliani's self-serving and smug speech at the GOP National Convention. Now it's a Johnny Cash 'tribute' being staged so as to suggest that the Man in Black would endorse the Republican platform. Fortunately, singer Rosanne Cash, Johnny's daughter, issued a statement insisting that the event should "NOT be seen as a show of support for the Repubican agenda." Outraged fans, many of whom were responding to the manifesto posted at www.defendjohhnycash.org, bum-rushed the event, held at Sotheby's, to remind the Republicans that Johnny championed precisely those people whom most Republicans couldn't care less about, that is, the poor, prisoners, etc. See John Nichols's article "The Man in Black Bloc."