The Politically Incorrect Bob Dylan

Curtsy to First Things for this. From a recent interview in which, among other things, he counsels young men not to play the guitar to meet women and advocates the prayer, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned":

Q. The guy in IF YOU EVER GO TO HOUSTON mentions he was in Houston during the Mexican War. A lot of people think the Anglos treated the Spanish badly in Texas, but miss the fact that the Spanish had claimed Texas for Mexico without ever populating it. They just drew a big line on the map and said, "All this is ours." The people who actually lived there were either Anglo settlers or Indians, and none of them wanted anything to do with Spain or its Mexican colony. Do you think Sam Houston has gotten a bum rap?

A. I don't know. I never heard that he had gotten a bum rap. Are we talking about Sam Houston the statesman, soldier and politician? Sam Houston was the governor of two states, both Texas and Tennessee. Who else has ever done that! What was he supposed to have gotten a bum rap for?

Q.Well, he chopped off Texas from Mexico.

A.No he didn't. He chopped it off from Spain. Just like somebody else chopped off Florida from Spain. Where does the bum rap come in?