Posted on 09/20/2015 2:31:25 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Fans have been left shocked by disturbing footage of John Lennon mocking disabled people.
The Beatles legend was an inspiration to many, but over the years his darker side has been revealed - and TV show It Was Alright In The 1960s has brought him back under fire.
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No it was many years before.
Like my response always has been.
Ok, John, I imagined it, and you know what? It Sucks!
"More popular than Jesus" was his comment regarding the insanity of the entire Beatlemania phenomenon, he thought is was outrageous and made an outrageous comment to illustrate it. Of course, those who didn't understand John's way of making a point (almost everyone apparently) put it down as a direct anti-Christian statement. Sounds familiar...
Read any honest historical account of the Beatles, and you will find that all of them had a mean streak to varying degrees about almost anyone and anything, including their fans. They grew up from tough circumstances and that was their culture.
One thing that was consistent about John was his calling out of hypocrisy. Left or right, church or state, others or himself, it didn't matter. All were his targets. Even in those days, making fun of the mentally handicapped was not normally done publicly. John constantly mocked societal conventions. That was who he was.
A world-class sprinter cuts his wang off, puts grapefruit in his shirt, prances around —we’re supposed to gush with admiration.
John Lennon does for 10 seconds what was almost NORMAL in his day and we’re supposed to get all OFFENDED.
This is coherent, consistent, at least.
Look, this was probably the mid-60’s and that kind of thing was common humor for lots of comics. Heck Jerry Lewis made his career out of doing exactly that - until he became the hero of MD. Everyone is a idiot at some point and most of us are glad our worst moments are not on film. That said, John Lennon was no hero for a lot of other reasons.
No, he said that back in the 1960’s. He was shot in the early 80’s.
Nooooo....the beloved “Imagine there is no heaven” hero of the left was an insensitive blockhead??
As far as I know, every hero of the left is the same way....
Obama “punish her with a baby”
Hitlery “what difference does it make”
Al Gore “the extra chromosome wing of the Republican party”
I rest my case.
Here’s King Barry dissing disabled people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HOBTUCv4o0
This didn’t seem to bother liberals to any degree.
Good grief. He was mocking the audience!
Which he did. Google it.
It’s amazing to me what people claim they “know.” Got a link to this info?
I do it every time I shop. Quit worrying about people that are taking the close spaces if you have no health problems.
Not identical, but essentially both shooters wanted to become famous by killing someone famous. The difference is Hinckley didn’t want to target the person who he was obsessed with directly, but wanted to kill someone else famous to “impress” her.
First off I hate John’s politics. But I love a lot of the Beatles music. This was the early pre drug Beatles. He probably wouldn’t have done that after the Sgt Pepper period. It looks like something young people might have done in the 60s. Make retard faces. You’d do it when a friend did somethings reduculous to draw attention to it. Everybody laughed including the person you were mocking.
I have been guilty of that and more. I am NOT PC. I love the mockery of some comics like Don Rickles. I do try to not insult people but sometimes that is not possible.
What’s disturbing is a) that a guy who’s 35 years dead still has “fans”, b) that something about him that everybody knew in 1974 is a surprise, and c) that there are people who think foreign policy shou,d be based on a song by a drugged-out guitar player.
He said it in 1965 and he was killed in 1980.
Yes and no. He said it, but it was a few years before he was killed. Maybe as many as 10 years.
Yes and no. He said it, but it was a few years before he was killed. Maybe as many as 10 years.
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