Country singer Jason Aldean is having a very good week, and he owes it all to the outrage mob on the hard left. As they say, “All publicity is good publicity.” While this maxim may not be true in all cases, the numbers show that in Aldean’s case, it is very much true.

The song “Try That in a Small Town” by Jason Aldean experienced a surge in sales and streams after a leftist-generated controversy arose over its lyrics and music video, which they criticized as racist. Following Country Music Television’s decision to pull the video in obedience to the progressive mob, sales rose significantly, reaching a total of 227,000 for the week, while official U.S. on-demand streams skyrocketed to 3.2 million, a 440.2 percent increase. Despite the backlash, the video has been viewed over nine million times on YouTube since its release.

Shortly after the song debuted, talking heads on the left exploded in faux outrage, savaging the singer for being a virulent racist who wrote an anti-Black Lives Matter anthem. Whoopi Goldberg, co-host on “The View,” also known as “Listen To These Yammering Harpies Pretend to Know About Politics,” chimed in on a recent broadcast, claiming that the lyrics could be seen as racist:

He talks about life in a small town and it’s different. He shows these images. He’s got folks from the Black Lives Matter movement. And he’s talking about people taking care of each other. I find it so interesting that never occurred to Jason or the writers that that’s what these folks were doing. They were taking care of the people in their town because they didn’t like what they saw. Just like you talk about people taking care of each other in small towns. We do the same thing in big towns. You just have to realize that when you make it about Black Lives Matter, people say, Well, are you talking about black people? What are you talking about here? If we’re talking about America that’s taking care of each other, then it shouldn’t be about Black Lives Matter. You should be able to show all the different things that have gone on in our country where people stood up and said, No more. We do the same thing that small towns do. That’s my two cents to that.

Whoopi Goldberg reacts to Jason Aldean’s song:

– Gets the name of it wrong
– Says it had “racist lyrics” even though it doesn’t mention race once
– Says that BLM rioters were “taking care of the people in their town” by burning them down.
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— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 20, 2023

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, a Democrat who also benefited from outrage coming from his political opposition earlier this year, referred to Aldean’s song as a “lynching anthem” during an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.

“This song is about normalizing racist violence, vigilanteism and White national nationalism. And it is by glorifying a south that we’re moving forward from and that we’re trying to move forward from in Tennessee,” Jones said. “This is a lynching anthem.”

“This is something we must condemn because if we normalize this racist, violent rhetoric, then we normalize the racist, violent actions. We cannot allow that. Because we see what’s happening in this nation, I was expelled for challenging gun violence. This song is about this proliferation of guns in our communities, of violence, of taking things into our own hands when we feel threaten bid people when they feel different than us. This is shameful and we must condemn it,” Jones bloviated.

Aldean responded to all the whining on Wednesday in a social media post.

In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.

There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it- and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far.

In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.…

— Jason Aldean (@Jason_Aldean) July 18, 2023

Aldean should send Goldberg, Jones, and all the other lefties bitching and moaning about his song fruit baskets and thank you cards. If it wasn’t for them, there is no way his song would have become as popular as it did. Their fake outrage propelled this anti-progressive anthem to the top of the chart.

And yes, the outrage is fake. As I mentioned in my tweet, the talking heads caterwauling about the song don’t actually think it’s racist. Indeed, the song is not racial, but it certainly is political, which is why folks on the hard left can’t help but lose their minds over it. In the end, this particular outrage mob gave Aldean even more exposure and his song more support.