The lawmakers were riven by... the Canadian band that (almost) everyone loves to hate.
By Emily Heil Emily Heil Co-author of the Reliable Source Email Bio Follow March 7 at 5:30 PM The band Nickelback has practically become rhetorical shorthand for “something everybody hates.” Case in point: A polling firm determined in 2013 that Congress was less popular than some pretty reviled things, including lice, colonoscopies, root canals and the Canadian rockers known for such hits as the earworm “Photograph.
Well, this turned out to be the equivalent of a glove tossed on the floor of the hallowed chamber. And Rep. Rodney Davis, for one, was not going to stand silent. “Why would you criticize one of the greatest bands of the ’90s?” the Illinois Republican parried in a tone of outrage. Davis went on to defend his unpopular opinion, suggesting that to slam Nickelback was a move fraught with political peril. “My colleague from Wisconsin, I know he did not mean to offend the thousands upon thousands of Nickelback fans in his district,” Davis said.
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