Paul Ryan's Favorite Band: Rage Against The Machine [View all]

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<If you were to hazard a guess at what kind of music might be on Paul Ryan's iPod, it would probably be things like Toby Keith, Kid Rock, Counting Crows, right?

And though it's possible he does dig those all-American acts, the man tapped by Gov. Mitt Romney to be his vice-presidential running mate has one band in heavy rotation that might raise some eyebrows: Rage Against the Machine.

But as the New York Times pointed out after Saturday's reveal of his #2 spot pick, he's also the guy whose family has interests in oil leases, a fact that seems at odds with an adamantly leftist group whose career has been spent speaking out against corporate power structures, large corporations and the tax-cuts-for-the-one-percent policies of Ryan's new #1, Romney.

Contrast that with the long-serving Congressman and former prom king/ fraternity member, who was given a green-and-white cake with a giant green dollar sign by Fox News on his 42nd birthday in January, and you have the dictionary definition of strange bedfellows. Ryan, a favorite of the raft of Republican Tea Party freshmen who entered Congress in 2010, is also the author of a budget bill that would increase tax cuts for the wealthy and cut spending on entitlement programs like Medicare and privatize Social Security. The pro-life Congressman has voted against federal funding of Planned Parenthood and supports a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage.>

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