As usual, watch the site's nazis pile in on this.
There's been several articles outlining the sadness of fans on Morrissey's decline into right-wing madness, and several praising him. I think that it's interesting to note that the ones praising him are from entrenched right-wing commentators, while it looks to me like the ones taking the opposite view are from much more mainstream outlets. What I'm getting at is that he's only getting support from the right-wing bigots.
I don't think it's really about "mainstream outlets" and you're just feeding your opposition by explaining it that way. It seems more to me that it's about a lot of right wing people who seem to have just started listening to Morrissey in the past year, but see him as a tool to exploit, attempting to influence his audience which, dwindling as it is, still is pretty large for someone pushing the viewpoints he appears to be. I'm sure that if Mick Jagger or someone else that well known was saying similar things many of these people wouldn't bother with Morrissey.
But he's not only getting support from right wing bigots. He's also getting a lot of support from die-hard fans who either believe that "we can't really know" his true beliefs, or who always sort of leaned that way, or who just don't really pay attention or don't care.
Several of the people that support him on this site are far from right wing bigots. But you never seem to let the facts get in the way of your theories. Just like you always say he is only does anything for the money when actually if he was trying to make the most money, and wasn't possessed by some need to constantly have people spitting his name, would do things much, much differently.
There is no real reason his 90's success didn't keep building. He needs a publicist, a solid working relationship with a record company, and a good songwriting partner or team. It's his own doing that he doesn't seem to have all of those things. Anyone who wanted money and wasn't insane would do things much differently.
