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Fox News debate host defends playing ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ amid singer’s criticism of GOP candidates
Fox News co-host Martha MacCallum kicked off the first GOP debate by placing the song at the center of the night’s discourse.
Fox News anchor and co-host of the first Republican primary debate Martha MacCallum defended using the conservative anthem “Rich Men North of Richmond” as a talking point after the songwriter criticized GOP presidential candidates Friday.
“The reason we asked 8 GOP candidates, after playing ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’ and pointing out that DC is just 100 miles N of Richmond was to say, are you on the stage part of the problem that he sings about? or part of the solution?” MacCallum wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “He sings of people who are deeply frustrated and don’t want anyone trying to control them. It would be a good way to start a Dem or GOP debate, to spark an important conversation.”
Oliver Anthony, the artist behind the chart-topping track that was the focus of the Republican primary debate’s first question, sparked a media firestorm Friday when he said the song was “written about the people on that stage.”
“It was funny seeing my song at the presidential debate ’cause it’s like, I wrote that song about those people, so for them to have to sit there and listen to it, that cracks me up,” singer Oliver Anthony said in a 10-minute video posted to YouTube on Friday.
“Rich Men North of Richmond,” which currently holds the No. 1 spot on Billboard’s Top 100, speaks to the “overtime hours” and “bulls--t pay” experienced by working-class Americans, placing the blame on “these rich men north of Richmond.”
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